Agroforestry World
Beria Leimona
Dr Leimona is a an ecosystem services specialist who joined ICRAF in 2002. Originally from Indonesia, Dr Leimona contributes to action research and policy formulation of pro-poor rewards for environmental services initiatives in Asia and globally. She is a committee member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership and the Environment and Economics Programme for Southeast Asia network. She holds a PhD in Environmental Systems Analysis from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre and the RUPES project has been maintaining ‘learning landscapes’ for over a decade to discover ways of helping poor smallholders’ improve their...
Indonesia’s newly formed Ministry of Environment and Forestry has adopted recommendations from studies conducted by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry and the RUPES project As one of its first initiatives, in January 2015...
Thanks to a pilot established by the World Agroforestry Centre, Indonesia’s state electricity company is now expanding ecosystem services’ schemes throughout the island of Sumatra The State Electricity Company of Indonesia (Perusahaan Listrik Negara/PLN) has mandated the...
We have lost a good friend and a remarkable person who was committed to the well-being of the people and landscapes of the Philippines, say Meine van Noordwijk and Grace Villamor Surrounded by his family and friends,...
Indonesia has been a leader in legislating for schemes that pay for environmental services such as clean and plentiful water supply. The implementing regulations that will encourage expansion are now being prepared and some important points need to...
By Meine van Noordwijk Over the past decade, governments in several developing countries, along with hydropower and drinking water companies and wetlands managers, have adopted ‘payments for environmental services’ schemes. What are they? Are they working? What are...
By Meine van Noordwijk Over the past decade, governments in several developing countries, along with hydropower and drinking water companies and wetlands managers, have adopted ‘payments for environmental services’ schemes. What are they? Are they working? What are...
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...
By Robert Finlayson Zhuangfang Yi of the World Agroforestry Centre’s China and East Asia Node recently presented a report about her and her colleagues’ work in China to the final workshop of the Rewards for, Use of,...