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August 2009
Introducing RAVA: The Amazon Livelihood and Environment Network
The Amazon Livelihood and Environment
Network (known as ‘RAVA’, its Spanish acronym), was formed in 2007 by the World
Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and other partner institutions within the Amazon
Initiative (AI) Consortium (including CIFOR). Using the PEN methodology, RAVA
analyses the living conditions of Amazonian communities to gain a better
understanding of the impact of forestry, agroforestry and agricultural
activities on the wellbeing of the communities and on the integrity of their
surrounding environment. more
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PENEWS 2009-1 (May): Putting PEN to Paper
Scientist Monica Fisher left CIFOR and PEN on April 30th. She takes up a new position at CIFOR’s sister organization IFPRI in Malawi. We wish to thank her for the contribution to PEN work during her (too) short stay at CIFOR. A replacement for her is being sought.
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March 2009
PEN Workshop, Bogor
More than 40 PEN partners and resource persons gathered from the 23rd -28th of March 2009 at the
CIFOR headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia for the 5th PEN workshop. The title of the
workshop – Putting PEN to Paper – reflects the current stage of the PEN project.
Data collection is complete and the task ahead is to clean and analyze the data,
see what stories emerge from the results, and to publish the stories in journal
articles, book chapters and PhD theses.
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List of
presentations
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October 2008
Phnom PENh workshop in Cambodia – taking stock of progress
13-17th October 2008
The Research Committee of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports
a four year (2007-10) PEN based research project with approx. USD 1 mill.
This project is commonly called the Danida-PEN project. It uses PEN methods
for extensive fieldwork and data collection in Cambodia, Ghana and Burkina
Faso. In addition, the project includes support for PEN’s central operation
at CIFOR. more
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January 2008
Barcelona PEN workshop.
Barcelona, Spain, 8th – 12th January 2008
Forty five PEN partners and resource persons descended upon Barcelona - the
beautiful capital of Catalonia, in north east Spain - from 8-12 January to
launch the second phase of the Poverty Environment Network (PEN) project.
PEN is an ambitious, tropics-wide collection of uniform socio-economic and
environmental data at household and village levels. The project was launched by
CIFOR in 2004. While data collection is still ongoing in many sites across the
tropics, the second phase of PEN is about how to make sense of the 300 000-odd
questionnaire pages collected from 9 000 households in 26 countries.
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Summary of workshop, including link to all presentations
