Theo Dillaha, Program Director SANREM CRSP

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SANREM CRSP Biodiversity Components

• Theo Dillaha, Program Director SANREM CRSP
• Office of International Research, Education, and
  Development, Virginia Tech

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y Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta
Cana, DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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SANREM Objectives

• Increase stakeholder income,
• Empower stakeholders, particularly women,
• Enhance resource management,
• Strengthen local institutions,
• Improve market access for small-holders, and
• Promote sustainable and environmentally sound
  development.

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_____________________________ Biodiversity
Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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USAID SANREM RFA and Biodiversity

• USAID RFA specifically required linking
  livelihoods and agricultural production to
  biodiversity conservation

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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SANREM Long-Term Research RFA

• Identified Biodiversity Conservation and
  Environmental Services as a priority inquiry
  area, which integrates management of agriculture
  and natural resources to promote synergistic
  relationships between production, biodiversity,
  and livelihoods.
• Referenced Biodiversity Conservation A Guide
  For USAID Staff and Partners

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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• Decentralization Reforms Property Rights
  Potentials and Puzzles for Forest Sustainability
  and Livelihoods
• Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
• Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, Uganda
• 100 biodiversity earmark credit

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
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• Goal Improve natural resource policy by
  developing knowledge about institutional
  arrangements that deliver benefits equitably to
  local people while sustaining natural resources
• Biodiversity Question/Objective
• What are the local level implications of forest
  decentralization policies for resource
  conservation, biodiversity, and ecological
  sustainability?

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
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• Developing a Participatory Socio-Economic Model
  for Food Security, Improved Rural Livelihoods,
  Watershed Management, and Biodiversity
  Conservation in Southern Africa
• Alex Travis, Cornell University
• Zambia, Malawi
• 100 biodiversity earmark credit

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
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• Hypothesis A market-driven, community-based
  model designed to improve food security and rural
  livelihoods will lead to sustainable watershed
  and biodiversity conservation on a regional
  scale, when based upon environmentally and
  economically sound practices.

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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• Watershed-based Natural Resource Management in
  Small-scale Agriculture Sloped Areas of the
  Andean Region
• Jeff Alwang, Virginia Tech
• Bolivia, Ecuador
• 10 biodiversity earmark credit

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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• Biodiversity Objective Quantify the relationship
  between the spatial spread of alternative
  livelihood activities and environmental quality,
  particularly water quality and biodiversity.

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006
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SANREM Biodiversity Earmark Credit

• FY 2006 720,000 (30)

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Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
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Thank you!
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_____________________________ Biodiversity
Conservation in Agriculture Symposium Punta Cana,
DR May 31-June 2, 2006