Promoting Agroforestry As A Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy in Southeast Asia: A Policy Brief. 2010.
PREFACE
This Policy Brief is one of the major outputs of the project entitled “Scaling‐Up Agroforestry Promotion for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Southeast Asia”. This project was carried out by the Philippine Agroforestry Education and Research Network (PAFERN), in collaboration with the four country networks of the Southeast Asian Network for Agroforestry Education (SEANAFE), namely: Indonesia Network for Agroforestry Education, Lao Network for Agroforestry Education, Thailand Network for Agroforestry Education, and Vietnam Network for Agroforestry Education (VNAFE), with fund support from the Asia‐Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). Primarily, this project was implemented to enhance information exchange and technical capacity development among the SEANAFE member‐countries in agroforestry development and promotion in Southeast Asia.
Agroforestry, a land‐use management system that combines the production of agricultural crops with the woody perennials, livestock and/or aquatic resources, is one of the interventions that is being considered in climate change mitigation and adaptation. This Policy brief highlights the issue of climate change, particularly its impacts to humanity and the environment; the concepts of agroforestry and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation; the experiences of PAFERN and its collaborators in scaling‐up agroforestry promotion for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Southeast Asia; and the indicative policy options in promoting agroforestry as a climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy in Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The project collaborators believe that this policy brief will serve as its instrument in its advocacy of institutionalizing agroforestry at various levels and sectors in Southeast Asia.
Copyright 2010
Produced by the Philippine Agroforestry Education and Research Network
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