PALMS: WP6

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PALMS WP6

• Policies and sustainable use and management
• PUCE (ECUADOR)
• ICN-UN (COLOMBIA)
• UMSA (BOLIVIA)
• UMSM (PERU)
• DCISM (DENMARK)

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• The content of the work-package.
• 2. Which arrangements have been made with the
  institutions contributing to the work package.
• 3. Which students contribute to the work-package.
• 4. A time-line for the activities.
• 5. Products and Deliverables from the
  work-package.

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Content of the work-package

• Objectives
• Analyze policy issues related to use and trade of
  products extracted from palms and other plants
  and their management promote sustainable
  management, targeting decision-makers with
  relevant information- and decision tools.
• Specific objectives
• Analyze and describe political systems, rules and
  practices that influence use and trade of natural
  products.
• 2. Determine major obstacles to sustainable
  management from local to international levels,
  and identify ways to influence and change
  procedures and inject relevant information into
  political and administrative processes.
• 3. Target officials and policy-makers in local to
  national government and in major organizations
  with specific materials and management tools.

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Person-months per beneficiary
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Work plan Phase 1 Compilation
PUCE
Lucía de la Torre Regulations for extraction,
relationship to land-use policies and
infrastructure projects, conservation and
protection of national resources, ethical issues,
the situation and rights of indigenous people and
intellectual property rights.
Oscar Zapata Regulations for trade
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Arrangements made with the institutions
contributing to the work package
Instituto de Ciencas Naturales, Universidad
Nacional de Colombia ICN-UN (COLOMBIA) Gloria
Galeano Laura Clavijo Herbario Nacional de
Bolivia, Universidad de San Andrés UMSA
(BOLIVIA) Mónica Moraes Narel Paniagua Museo de
Historia Natural, Universidad de San MarcosUMSM
(PERU) Betty Millán Miguel Machahua Danish
Institute for International Studies DCISM
(DENMARK)
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Methodology Phase 1 a. Compilation of
regulations -Review of information in the internet
Datos exportaciones (FOB) Banco Central del
Ecuador
enero-mayo 2009
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-Visit to gubernmental and non gubernmental
institutions related to use and trade of natural
resources (e.g. MAE, MINAM, FAO, INIA, IEPI,
INDECOPI, CORPEI, SINCHI SACHA, AIDESEP)
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b. Organization of information on a data base to
facilitate analysis Literature (WP7) Study
cases (WP4, WP5) Regulations Contacts (points
of view)
International National Local
Regulations 100 Intellectual property
rights Indigenous people rights Biodiversity
(access to genetic resources) Trade Land use
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c. Analysis (as a way to improve and complete
compilation) - Confront of legislation with case
studies - Linking of regulations to palms -
Comparison of national and local regulations
through countries
Ceroxylon echinulatum (sí) Ceroxylon ventricosum
(no endémica) Ceroxylon alpinum subsp.
ecuadorense (no subespecies)
CDB Ley de Gestión Ambiental Ley Forestal Res 050
- Extractivism is not the main cause of
populations decline (Montúfar com. pers., Paredes
1995)
- Genetic diversity is diminishing due to habitat
fragmentation (Espinoza and Montúfar 200X)
Decisión 391 de la CAN (Art. 13) _________________
_______ Ley de Soberanía Alimentaria Ley de
Desarrollo Agrario y la Ley de Fomento y
Desarrollo Agropecuario
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d. Completion of compilation based on previous
analysis (glosary)
e. Meeting of the Local Advisory Committee
10-2009 (WP8)
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Students that contribute to the work-package
Carolina Altamirano (PUCE) Maestría en Biología
de la Conservación 08-2009 a 06-2011
Project Case study on Aphandra natalia,
Phytelephas aequatorialis, Oenocarpus bataua,
Dictyocaryum lamarckianum, Geonoma orbignyana, or
other to be decided.
1.      Are policies and practices favoring
sustainable management of a palm species in
Ecuador?   2.      Policies and practices to use
and preserve palms in Ecuador.
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• Products
• Report on policy issues related to use in and
  trade of palm products and resource management
  available at internet with summary version in
  international journal (18).
• Report analyzing specific options for influencing
  policies at different levels (30).
• A strategy to influence local-level
  administrators and decision-makers to further
  policies resulting in more sustainable uses of
  the areas land and resources (36)
• Implementation and mid-term evaluation (48) of
  strategy to influence policies regarding natural
  resource policies at the local level (60).
• Recommendations and conclusions regarding options
  to influence political-administrative systems
  with scientific documentation (60).

X Phase 1
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Deliverables 1. Review of policy issues
influencing management of palm products (as part
of overall Project Deliverable 2, month 18) 2.
Research protocol for palm harvest policy studies
(as part of overall Project Deliverable 3, month
18) 3. Regional analysis of palm harvest policy
with guidance to harvesters and policy makers (as
part of overall Project Deliverable 6, month
54) 4. Regional analysis of palm harvest policy
and its impacts on tropical forests (as part of
overall Project Deliverable 7, month 60).
X Phase 1