List of Partners

Asia

Name

University

Country of
fieldwork

Topic

Fieldwork
start

TG

CIFOR
contact

PEN ID
&
Narrative

Khaled Misbahuzzaman

Chittagong Univ, Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Conservation practices and livelihood strategies of the village common forest communities in Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh.

 

2006-12

LIV

Terry
Sunderland

20101

 

Ajijur Rahman

 

Bangladesh

Sustainable forest management for poverty reduction through agroforestry options in the uplands of Eastern Bangladesh.

 

2006-11

LIV;MAR

Terry
Sunderland

20102

 

Nick Hogarth

Charles Darwin Univ, Australia

China

Bamboo based economic development and poverty alleviation in Guangxi Province, China

 

2007-01

LIV

Brian
Belcher

20201

 

Ajith Chandran

Barkatullah Univ, India

India

Forestry’s contribution to sustainable livelihood: Impact of forest policies

 

2006-11

LIV

Brian
Belcher

20301

 

Monika Singh

Barkatullah University, Department of Sociology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.  India

India

People-forest Relationship: A Study of Forest Management Systems in Western India 

2006-11

LFM

Brian
Belcher

20302

 

Sugato Dutt

Univ of Hawaii, US

India

Crafting the conservation landscape: an evaluation of resource use and participatory forest management in the Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India

 

2007-4

LIV

Brian
Belcher

20303

Ririn S. Purnamasari

Melbourne Univ, Australia

Indonesia

Deforestation dynamics in Indonesia: a household level analysis of the role of poverty and wellbeing change

 

2005-07

DEF

Arild
Angelsen

20401

 

Santosh Rayamajhi

Copenhagen Univ, Denmark

Nepal

Conservation and utilization of high altitude forests in Nepal

 

2005-12

DEF

Arild
Angelsen

20501

Shah Raees Khan

Univ of Manitoba, Canada

Pakistan

Linking conservation and sustainable livelihood strategies: a case study of Northern Pakistan

 

2006-08

LIV

Brian
Belcher

20601

 

Dao Huy Giap

 

Vietnam

Role of Forest and National Park on Poverty Alleviation at Ba Island

 

2007-03

LFM;LIV

Terry
Sunderland

20701

 

Shiba P. Kar

Penn State Uni, US

Bangladesh

Domestication and Commercialization of Non-wood Forest Products in Bangladesh

 

2007

LIV;
MAR

Terry
Sunderland

  20103

Neth Top

Cambodia Development Research Institute

Cambodia

 

2008-01

 

Terry
Sunderland

20801

 

 

Thematic groups (TG):

  1. DEF: Deforestation: Poverty impacts of deforestation and land use changes
  2. LFM: Local forest management: Forest tenure, joint/communal/local forest management, decentralization
  3. MAR: Markets: local integration and functioning of markets
  4. PES: Payment for forest environmental services, including tourism  
  5. LIV: Livelihoods: Livelihoods analysis, incl. forests as safety nets

 

 
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