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CIFOR GIS Unit Activities

Mohammad AgusSalim

1 April 2009 - ILRI Campus, Nairobi

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• What's new at CIFOR

• GIS Unit activities

• What is going on

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What’s new at CIFOR

• CIFOR’s strategy (2008 – 2018)

• Strategic research agenda

• Organizational changes

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Strategic research agenda

1 Enhancing the role of forests in mitigating climate change

Enhancing the role of forests in adapting to climate

change2Improving livelihoods through smallholder and

community forestry3Managing trade-offs between conservation and

development at the landscape scale4Managing impacts of globalised trade and investment on

forests and forest communities5

Sustainably managing tropical production forests6

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Changes in GIS Unit

Information Services Group

IT &System

DevelopmentLibrary GIS Unit

Communication Unit

Website

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ICT Data & Information Marketing

Changes in GIS Unit

Information Services Group

IT Library

GIS Unit

Communication Unit

WebsiteSystem Development

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New Role

RS and GIS Analysis

Corporate and Research Data Management

Support Marketing on Data and Information

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Activities in 2008

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Objectives

• Understand linkage between forest existence with poverty issues

1 Forest and PovertyActivity

Indonesia

Vietnam

Brazil

Honduras

Malawi

Mozambique

Uganda

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Forest and Poverty

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Findings• Millions of poor living in so-called ‘low’ forest areas who rely on forests for a

portion of their income

• High poverty rate is often linked with high severity of poverty (high poverty

gap) and long duration of poverty (chronic poverty)

• Although the proportion of all poor people living in high forest areas may be

low, the absolute numbers will be high in some countries.

• There is relatively high dependence on forests for livelihoods in areas of high

forests and high poverty rate ->to promote forest resources as part of the

poverty alleviation strategy

1 Forest and PovertyActivity

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Objectives• Understand the relationship between mining operations, forest

management practices and livelihoods (both forest-based and urban

population) in the Copper Belt, particularly in the copper mining areas

of Zambia and DR Congo.

2 Forestry and Mining LinkageActivity

Congo, DRC

Zambia

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Mining and Forestry Linkage

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Findings• There are severe damage that mining activities have caused to the

vegetation cover and the environment.

• Water is polluted, the land for agricultural production is degraded,

natural vegetation and crops are affected, human health is at risk and

forest biodiversity is being eroded

2 Forestry and Mining LinkageActivity

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Objectives

• Capturing local perceptions on landscape and natural

resources, and local priorities in terms of development, land

use and land tenure

3 Natural Resources Participatory MappingActivity

Papua,Indonesia

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Natural Resources Participatory Mapping

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Natural Resources Participatory Mapping

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Natural Resources Participatory Mapping

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Findings

• Local perception is one of important aspect in protected area

management

• The maps are useful to communicate between local people,

local government and conservation practitioners

3 Natural Resources Participatory MappingActivity

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Ongoing Activities

• Research data management system

(infrastructure, policy, procedure)

• Data integration (corporate data & research

data) including integrating spatial data with

corporate data

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Research Data Management

Infrastructure

Policy

Procedure

RDM

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Data Integration

Corporate Database

Finance PublicationDistribution

PublicationDistribution Research

Data

HRStakeholder

Spatial Component

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