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.
Representatives of several ASEAN member states agreed that closer integration of community forestry across the region would help to improve farmers’ livelihoods, trade and environmental management. The representatives from Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam discussed the achievements and...
The new global agenda has one goal: a sustainable Earth. The contribution of agroforestry in achieving this was discussed in detail at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week, led by Dr Meine van Noordwijk (see part 1) as part of the...
People-centred forestry is at the heart of ensuring future generations inherit a sustainable Earth. Agroforestry can be its local expression. Ms Yuliatin, a community forestry leader from Jember in Indonesia, brought a grass-roots perspective to the opening...
‘Forestry is not about trees, it is about people. And it is about trees only insofar as trees can serve the needs of people.’ Jack Westoby Key messages from the policy dialogue In order to ensure that...
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...
Community forest management in Viet Nam is expected to be strengthened through an initiative of the Viet Nam Forestry Administration with support from the World Agroforestry Centre and the ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change. ...
Why are the wealthiest farmers and a state-owned company benefiting the most from a scheme intended to help the poorest? Further study has revealed a complex web of migration, skills, capital, extra-curricular payments, evasive action and a lack...
At a farewell event for the outgoing Swiss ambassador to ASEAN, it became clear that his involvement with social forestry was personal as well as effective His Excellency Heinz Walker-Nederkoorn, ambassador of Switzerland to Indonesia and the...
REDD+ progress will be through policy integration and reform in the forestry, agricultural and economic development sectors and by keeping the major drivers of deforestation high on the agenda, says Moira Moeliono Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by...