ASB GSG Meeting

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ASB GSG Meeting

• Highlights from PERU 2001

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INTRODUCTION

• Dr. Julio Toledo, National Coordinator
• Director General Research INIA
• Dr. Ruben Guevara, Regional Coordinator ASB
  and ICRAF

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PARTNERS - National

• INIA National Agrarian Research Institute
• AMUCAU Association of Rural Women from Ucayali
• PROSEMA Improved Seed and Seedlings Producer
  Association
• CODESU Consortium for the Sustainable
  Development of Ucayali

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PARTNERS - National

• UNALM National Agrarian University, La Molina

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PARTNERS - International

• CIFOR Centre for International Forestry
  Research
• CIAT International Centre for Tropical
  Agriculture
• ICRAF International Centre for Research in
  Agroforestry
• TSBF Tropical Soil Biodiversity and Fertility

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NEW PARTNERS in progress

• IIAP Peruvian Amazon Research Institute
• INRENA National Natural Resources Institute
• UNU National Ucayali University
• UNAP National Peruvian Amazonian University

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BENCHMARK SITES

• Ucayali Nueva Requena, San Alejandro, Aguaytía
• Cajamarca Cajamarca
• Loreto Yurimaguas

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ON-GOING RESEARCH

• Participative Conservation of Genetic diversity
• Participative Domestication of Amazonian Trees
• Improved Livelihoods through Natural and Social
  Capital Enhancement
• Climate Change C sequestration and Hydrological
  Functions

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Capacity Building

• New M.Sc. at UNALM in
• Agroforestry
• Global Change and the Amazon Environmental
  Socioeconomics
• Short Courses and Workshops
• Natural Resource Policy and Legislation
• Community Empowerment

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SHORT COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

• Forest Science Policy Interface, Oct. 29-31,
  Costa Rica
• WaNuLCAS Modeling, and Simulation, Nov. 5-9,
  Brazil
• Proposal Writing and Fund Raising, Nov. 19-23,
  Brazil

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FUND RAISING 2001

• Socio-Economic Study of Agroforestry Uses in
  Secondary Forests US 57,800
• Alternative Development Project Aguaytía US
  110,000
• Vetiveria Research US 13,000
• Local Ecological Knowledge US 128,000

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FUNDRAISING Pipeline

• Tree domestication in the Amazon ITTO, US
  390,000
• Certified Timber Production in Ucayali GEF and
  IFC, US 850,000
• Environmental Services in the Amazon ITTO, US
  872,000
• Agrosilvopastoral Systems in the Amazon
  FONTAGRO, US 355,000

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CONCLUSIONS

• Membership is increasing
• Research agenda is diversifying
• Benchmark sites are expanding
• Capacity building is dynamic
• Fund raising is progressing well
• National Consortium is being strengthened

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THANK YOU