Agroforestry World
Rob Finlayson
Robert Finlayson is the Southeast Asia program's regional communications specialist. As well as writing stories for the Centre's website, he devises and supervises strategies for projects and the countries in the Southeast Asia region, including scripting and producing videos, supervising editors and translators and also assisting with resource mobilization.
Jayawijaya regency in central Papua province, Indonesia, is combing local ecological wisdom with scientific technical support to devise low-emission development through land-use plans The Baliem Valley in central Papua has no road access and was only ‘discovered’...
Home to a vast area of natural forests considered critical to slowing climate change, Papua province in Indonesia is ready to develop a ‘green economy’ but the world isn’t ready to invest Committed to retaining 80% of...
A spontaneous answer to a farmer’s question has led to farmer-managed revegetation of a denuded hill and more opportunities for diversifying against climate shocks. It was all about seizing the moment In the autumn of 2012, a...
Ambassador Skoog (L) and Papua provincial secretary Mr Hery Dosinaen. Photo: World Agroforestry Centre/Robert Finlayson His Excellency Olof Skoog, Ambassador of the European Union to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and ASEAN, visited Papua province, Indonesia,...
Farmers and village leaders have been interviewed on video and their landscapes photographed to collect baseline data for a new research project Sixteen farmers and eight village administration representatives from Buol district, Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia, talked...
Several actors with diverse roles and affiliations interact within landscapes, and with different mandates, interests, weaknesses and capabilities that call for collaborations that are governed by laws, rules and regulations. These actors and policies operating at various levels...