Agroforestry World
Amy Lumban Gaol
Amy Lumban Gaol is the World Agroforestry Centre’s Communications Coordinator for the Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi (AgFor) project based in Makassar, Indonesia. She coordinates an integrated communications strategy within the three provinces where AgFor is working (South and Southeast Sulawesi and Gorontalo), including video production, writing stories and promoting AgFor through various media. Her interests include photography, social media and humanitarian activity.
A Regent’s Regulation has become the first official local ruling in the province of South Sulawesi for rewards for ecosystem services. After going through a long and exhaustive process, the people of Bantaeng District now have clearer rules...
Staff of the Bhutan Government have been trained by the World Agroforestry Centre in methods for improving their ecosystem services’ schemes. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are incentive-based schemes that bridge conservation initiatives and community livelihoods. The...
By Robert Finlayson Schemes that reward poor farmers for protecting the environment can succeed if they meet several conditions, say scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre in Indonesia. Scientists, governments and civil society organizations have been working together...