Glenn Hyman, GIS expert and the CRP 6 focal contact at CIAT provided an outline on forest related research under the CRP 6 program. Hyman stressed on the on-going activities related to livelihood themes, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and trade theme, the sentinel landscapes and mainstreaming gender in forests.

1. CIAT participation in CGIAR
Research Program on
Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
Glenn Hyman March 15, 2013
Western
Amazon
Sentinel
Landscape

3. Livelihoods Theme
• Opportunities for palm species in the humid tropics assessed
• Solving pest and disease problems for Coconut Palm on the Pacific
Coast of Colombia.
• Sharing Experiences in Site-Specific Agriculture Applied to Fruits in
Colombia.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
• Environmental and Livelihoods tradeoff metrics developed
• Models of costs and benefits of conversion to agropastosilvoral systems
• Methodology for creating adaptation maps for forestry
• Terra I Platform for habitat change monitoring
• ASSETS - Managing ecosystem services for food security and the
nutritional health of the rural poor at the Forest-agricultural interface
Trade Theme
• Analysis of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) embedded in national and
international crop and livestock trade of the Amazon region

4. Sentinel
Landscapes

5. Gender
• Purabi Bose
• Agreement with University of Florida
• Bioversity Gender Dialogue
• Gender Strategy Development

6. Program team
Purabi Bose Social Science, Forestry, Gender
Alejandro Coca Castro Agricultural Science, GIS
Gisella Cruz Anthropology
Glenn Hyman Geography, Land Use
Andy Jarvis Geography, Climate change adaptation
Julian Moll-Rocek Ecology
Carolina Navarrete Sociology, Policy, Gender
Marcela Quintero Environmental Services
Louis Reymondi Remote Sensing, Geography
Rolf Wachholtz Agricultural and Resource Economics
Maarten von Zonnefeld Bioversity
Evert Thomas Bioversity