Presentations
Tuesday, 20 February
| Plenary Session | |
Tony Simons, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) | Keynote presentation: Setting the Scene |
Eva Müller, Director, Forest Policy and Resources Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Objectives of the conference, working modalities, expected outcomes |
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| Session 1: Approaches to managing landscapes in an integrated way under a changing climate | |
Barron Orr, Lead Scientist, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) | Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) across scales: A people centered approach to integrated land management |
Saah A. David, Jr., National REDD+ Project Coordinator, Forestry Development Authority (FDA), Liberia | Community-based practices Supporting integrated landscape management in the context of REDD+ in Liberia |
Cora Van Oosten, Project Manager and Programme Coordinator, Ecosystems & Landscape Governance Center for Development Innovation, Wageningen University | Halting deforestation — starting reforestation Prerequisites for using an integrated landscape approach |
Godlisten Matilya, Coordinator, Climate Change Project, Maasai Steppe Heartland, Tanzania, African Wildlife Foundation | Achieving multiple goals for sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in landscapes |
Augusta Mindry Anandi, Coordinator, Sustainable Land Use Planning, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) LESTARI | Participatory land use zonation to encourage transition from small holder shifting to sedentary higher value cultivation: Integrating jurisdictional and functional values |
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| Session 2: Approaches to managing landscapes in an integrated way under a changing climate | |
Milton Kanashiro, Researcher, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) | Legal Frameworks, Social Movements and Promotion of SAFs and Forest Management Resources in Brazil |
Sonya Dewi, Indonesia Country Coordinator, Senior Landscape Ecologist, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) | Forest, Agroforest and Green Growth in Southeast Asia |
Daniel A. Ofori, Director and Chief Research Scientist, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) | Landscape restoration through agroforestry |
Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada, President, European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) | Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems in Europe Afforestation, Reforestation and Agroforestry |
Yasmin Cajas, Entrepreneur, Silvopastoral systems | The forest transition |
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| Session 4: Approaches to managing landscapes in an integrated way under a changing climate | |
Kwesi Atta-Krah, Director, Country Alignment and Systems Integration, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) | Sustainable agricultural production as component in halting deforestation |
Donald Macintosh, Consultant, Advisor, Asian Institute of Technology | Integrated mangrove forest — aquaculture systems A case study from Viet Nam combining mangrove conservation, climate change adaptation and sustainable aquatic food production |
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| Session 5: Sustainable commodities and value chains Achieving corporate commitments and zero deforestation initiatives for agricultural commodities | |
Toshimasa Masuyama, Deputy Director, International Forestry Cooperation Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan | Japan's Efforts for the Promotion of Deforestation - Free Global Supply Chains |
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| Session 6: Sustainable commodities and value chains Forest products value chains in the bio-economy | |
Andrea Stocchero, Researcher, Scion Research, New Zealand | Sustainable wood & bio-based materials in construction |
Camille Rebelo, Co-Founder; CEO, EcoPlanet Bamboo | Bamboo based bio-economies A tool for forest landscape restoration |
Ulrich Grauert, Chief Executive Officer, Interholco (IHC) | Shaping the future |
Tieme Wanders, Research and Development Manager, Form International | Unlocking investments for New Forests for Africa |
Emmanuelle Marie, Head, Unit of Multilateral Environmental Cooperation; Directorate General for the Environment, European Commission | The role of forests in the circular economy |
Wednesday, 21 February
| Session 7: Sustainable commodities and value chains Valuing forest ecosystem services | |
Bhaskar Vira, Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge | The case for a stock-based approach to account forests as natural capital |
Ravi Prabhu, Deputy Director General, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) | Win more, lose less |
Gerhard Dieterle, Executive Director, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) | Incentivizing public goods services: Revisiting payments for forest ecosystem services in the tropics |
| Session 8: Sustainable commodities and value chains Strengthening small-scale producers and their organizations | |
James Mayers, Director, Natural Resources Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IED) | Small scale producers — the biggest private sector, the biggest hope for forests |
| Plenary Session | |
Howard-Yana Shapiro, Chief Agricultural Officer, Mars Advanced Research Institute Fellow, Mars Incorporated | A private sector perspective |
| Session 9: Forest smart policies and governance Cross-sectoral policy coordination | |
M. Mustafa Gozukara, Director General, Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Turkey | All speakers' presentations |
Angelo Sartori, Head, Climate Change and Environmental Service Unit, Forestry Development Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Chile | |
Sidney Medeiros, Rural Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil | |
Anthony McKenzie, Director, Environmental Management and Conservation, National Environment and Planning Agency, Jamaica | |
Thomas Maddox, Senior Technical Specialist, Fauna and Flora International | |
| Session 10: Forest smart policies and governance Improving land governance | |
Carin Smaller, Advisor on Agriculture Investments, International Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) | Improving land governance in agricultural investments |
| Session 11: Forest smart policies and governance Role of different stakeholders | |
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Senior Policy Advisor, Conservation International | Costa Rica |
Thursday, 22 February
| Session 13: Innovative instruments to upscale progress: financing, technologies and research Public and private international finance | |
Ben Valk, Head, Food & Agriculture Partnerships, Rabobank | Partnership for Forest Protection and Sustainable Agriculture (FPSA) |
Adeline Donterville, REDD+ Expert, EU REDD Facility, European Forestry Institute | Aligning public and private investments to REDD+ objectives |
Eduardo Juarez Mejia, Director General, FINDECA, Small Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) | Lessons learned from the Forest Investment Program: Mexico's experience with the private sector |
| Session 14: Innovative instruments to upscale progress: financing, technologies and research Innovative technologies for land use monitoring | |
Sara Aparicio | Big data: Unlocking the power of EO for forest monitoring |
Gilberto Camara, Researcher, National Institute of Space Research (INPE), Brazil | Innovative technologies for land-use monitoring |
Phoebe Odour, Remote Sensing Expert, SERVIR Eastern and Southern Africa | Land cover mapping in the Eastern and Southern Africa region SERVIR Eastern and Southern Africa's contribution |
Daniel Irwin, Research Scientist at SERVIR Global Program Manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Collect Earth Online: A web-based, collaborative reference data collection system for land cover and land use change mapping |
Diego Mohr Bell, Geomatic Coordinator, Forest Research and Extension Centre Andino Patagonia (CIEFAP) | Using UAVs and 3D representation in multi scale assessment and monitoring of landscapes |
| Session 15: Innovative instruments to upscale progress: financing, technologies and research Financial instruments to mobilize domestic funding | |
Youssef Saadani, Former Director, Forestry, Tunisia | Pacte pour une Tunisie Verte : Un espace multidimensionnel pour le financement et la promotion du secteur forestier en Tunisie |
Alain Karsenty, Senior Researcher, Centre for Agricultural Research, Cooperation and Development (CIRAD), Department of Environment, France | Challenges and opportunities of domestic financing Earmarked fees/taxes, over-compensation and zero-deforestation initiatives |
| Session 16: Innovative instruments to upscale progress: financing, technologies and research Role of science and research | |
Avery Cohn, Assistant Professor, Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University | Role of science in disentangling controversies related to forest solutions |
