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SUBTHEME 2 – BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH FORESTS
Programme
WHAT IS RESILIENCE AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Monday 7 September 2015
16:15 – 18:15
Hall 1B
Chairperson: Mette Løyche Wilkie, Director, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, UNEP
Keynote address
An overview of resilience in forestry
Mr. Mike Wingfield
President, International Union of Forest Research
Organizations
Panellists
Disaster risk management
Mr. Mathewos Hunde Tulu
Head, UNISDR Sub Regional Office, Addis Ababa
Resilience from the indigenous perspective
Ms. Sara Omi Casama
Embera Wounan Comarca, MesoAmerican Alliance for Peoples
& Forests
Intersectoral decision-making and resilience
Ms. Alice Akinyi Kaudia
Environment Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Mineral
Resources, Kenya
Banking on resilience – the economic perspective
Mr. Octavio Carrasquilla
Principal Executive, Environment and Climate Change,
Development Bank of Latin America
The importance of resilient forests for livelihoods in
Low Forest Cover Countries
Mr. Mostafa Jafari
Head of TPS for LFCCs
MODERATED DISCUSSION
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SUBTHEME 2 – BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH FORESTS
Programme
BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RESILIENCE – BEST PRACTICES
WORLD CAFÉ
Tuesday 8 September 2015
10:30 – 12:30
CAFÉ MENU
ORGANIZER
Room
Fire management
Working on Fire
Mr. Trevor Abrahams, Divisional Director
Hall 4C
Tree genetic resources for resilience;
maintaining adaptive potential
Bioversity International
11AB
Ms. Judy Loo, Theme Leader, Conservation and Use of Forest
and Tree Genetic Diversity
Forest management for resilience in
Africa
Food & Agriculture Organization & African Forest
Forum
Ms. Simmone Rose, Forestry Officer
Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, at
the University of Pretoria (FABI)
Ms. Jolanda Roux and Mr. Brett Hurley
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Mr. Ravi Prabhu, Deputy Director General (Research)
GIZ India
Mr. Kundan Burnwal, Technical Advisor
Is one tree worth a forest? Weighing
the costs of the trade in live plants
Farming systems
Climate change resilience through
active community participation
11CDE
21ABCG
22ABCG
21DEF
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SUBTHEME 2 – BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH FORESTS
Programme
CRITICAL INSIGHTS INTO RESILIENCE
Wednesday 9 September 2015
10:45 – 12:45
Hall 1B
Chairperson: Constance Neely, Senior Advisor, Office of the Director General, ICRAF
Introductory
address
Linking science and application to build resilience in forests
Mr. Jack Hurd, Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific,
The Nature Conservancy
Papers
Identifying features for building climate resilient forests applying assessment of vulnerability
at eastern coast of Bangladesh
Improving awareness on climate change and forest health
Biodiversity patterns in relation to fire frequency in the Limpopo National Parque, Southern
Mozambique
Impacts and vulnerabilities of climate change and socio-economic challenges on oaks
deterioration – west of Iran
Inventario y análisi de acciones que contribuyen a la adaptación al cambio climático en los
bosques modelo de Iberoamérica
Benefits sharing in REDD+ schemes: issues, opportunities and challenges with an example from
the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project, SE Kenya
Adapting Europe's forests to climate change impacts
M. Al-Amin - Bangladesh
Elena Paoletti - Italy
Natasha Ribeiro - Mozambique
Hamidreza Solaymani Osbooei - Iran
Fernando Carrera - Costa Rica
Mwangi Githiru - Kenya
Marc Hanewinkel - Germany
DISCUSSION
Introductory
address
Resilience in the face of new and emerging challenges: some insights into the natural
resource management programmes in South Africa
Mr. Christo Marais, Chief Director, Natural
Resource Management Programmes,
Department of Environmental Affairs
Papers
Redefining priorities for promoting agroforestry as a tool for dry forests conservation and
rural livelihoods security in Africa
Extreme events and forest governance: the post-disasters dynamics of forest fires and forest
storms in Sweden
Forest change – the Canadian Forest Service program on adaptation to climate change
Gestión forestal adaptativa al cambio climático en territorios de Latinoamérica: la experiencia
del proyecto CLIMIFORAD
Grassroots facilitators as agents of change for promoting sustainable forest management:
lessons learned from REDD+ capacity development in Asia
In-situ conservation of wild forest coffee – exploring the potential of participatory forest
management in South West Ethiopia
Building resilience into planted forests: recent experience from Great Britain
Kelechi Eleanya - Nigeria
Rolf Lidskog - Sweden
Pierre Bernier - Canada
Diego Delgado - Costa Rica
Chandra Silori - Thailand
Motuma Tolera - Ethiopia
Gary Kerr - United Kingdom
DISCUSSION
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SUBTHEME 2 – BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH FORESTS
Programme
AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR RESILIENCE
Wednesday 9 September 2015
14:30 – 16:15
Hall 1B
Chairperson: Mr. Fred Kruger, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Keynote address
Panellists
The importance of cross sectoral coordination for
resilience
Mr. Dennis Garrity
Strong governance mechanisms for resilience
Mr. John Patrick Kabayo
ICRAF, UNCCD Ambassador of UN, Evergreen Agriculture
Partnership
Coordinator of the IGAD Drought Resilience Platform
Coordination Unit
Benefits of strengthened capacity
Mr. Fred Marani
Country Manager, Vi Agroforestry Kenya
Monitoring resilience – tools and initiatives
Ms. Constance Neely
Senior Advisor, Office of the Director General, ICRAF
Financing resilience
Mr. David Gibson
Senior Environmental Specialist, International Finance
Corporation, World Bank Group
Adequate resources to address resilience
Mr. Mmaphaka Tau
Chief Director Natural Resources Management, Department of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa
MODERATED DISCUSSION
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