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| Title | The interface between poverty and protection: the challenge in integrated natural resource management | | Author | Dennis P Garrity, Victor B Amoroso, Samuel Koffa, Delia Catacutan, Gladys Buenavista, Chip C Fay and William D. Dar | | Year | 2001 | | Parent Title | SANREM Conference "Sustaining Upland Development In Southeast Asia: Issues, Tools & Institutions For Local Natural Resource Management". ACCEED Conference Center, Benavidez cor Trasierra Sts.Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines May 28 - 30, 2001 | | Publisher | International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, SEA Regional Research Programme | | City of Publication | Manila, Philippines | | Pages | 1-11 | | Call Number | PP0143-05 | | Keywords | Integrated conservation-development projects, Sustainable agriculture, Agroforestry, Soil
conservation, Buffer zone, Protected national park, Biodiversity, Landcare, Timber |
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| Abstract: |
| There are serious methodological and policy hurdles to be overcome in making
integrated natural resource management effective in alleviating rural poverty while
protecting environmental services in tropical watersheds. This paper reviews the
development of an approach to integrate biodiversity conservation and agroforestry
development through the active involvement of communities. The work was focused
on the Kitanglad Range Nature Park in the upper reaches of the Manupali watershed
in central Mindanao, Philippines. Kitanglad is one of the most important biodiversity
reserves in the Philippines, and is one of the three global sites of the Sustainable
Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (SANREM) Program. The
Biodiversity Consortium at the Philippine site was composed of collaborating
organizations including a university, NGOs, government agencies, and the
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). We developed technical
innovations suited to the biophysical and socio-economic conditions of the buffer
zone, including practices for tree farming and conservation farming with annual
crops, that have been widely adopted. We also fostered institutional innovations to
improve resource management. The elements were put in place for an effective social
contract to protect the natural biodiversity of the Park. The knowledge base guided
the development and implementation of a natural resource management plan for the
Municipality of Lantapan. We assisted the development of a dynamic grassroots
movement of farmer-led Landcare groups in the villages near the park boundary that
has had significant impact on natural resource conservation in both the natural and
managed ecosystems. The experience has been recognized as a national model for
natural resource management planning and watershed management in the
Philippines. Using an integrated natural resource management research framework,
we are currently evolving a Negotiation Support System to resolve the interactions |
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