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| Title | A brief history of the FORDA– ICRAF research relationship | | Author | Robert Finlayson, Ujjwal Pradhan, Meine van Noordwijk, S. Suyanto, Betha Lusiana and Vinny Iskandar | | Year | 2013 | | Book Title | Forestry Research Collaboration Between FORDA and Partners: Improving sustainable research and development. Celebrating 100 years of forestry research in Indonesia | | Publisher | FORDA | | City of Publication | Bogor, Indonesia | | Number of Pages of the book | 9 | | Pages | 8-16 | | Call Number | BC0346-13 |
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In 1995, the memorandum of agreement widened to cover a cooperative regional program on agroforestry research. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ali Alatas, gave full authority to the Ministry of Forestry to sign the new agreement on behalf of the Government of Indonesia. The Director General of ICRAF and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Forestry, Dr Oetomo Soedjonopuro, signed the new agreement on 20 January 1995. In the same year, Indonesia’s Minister of Forestry, Dr Djamaludin Suryohadikusumo, authorised the relocation of the ICRAF office to the new international facilities built at Darmaga for the Centerfor International Forestry Research. In 2000, ICRAF also opened an office in the Manggala Wanabakti complex of the Ministry of Forestry in Jakarta, to ensure closer collaboration with senior decision-makers and scientists. ICRAF started using the brand name ‘World Agroforestry Centre’ in 2002, but did not change its legal identity.
The Southeast Asia program’s mandate was to conduct strategic researchand to develop and disseminate more effective research methods.Those imperatives remain the same to this day. The team stated theirintention to ‘identify and concentrate on the most important problems inagroforestry and provide strategic leadership in developing the researchbase to solve them’. They saw their research bounded by two themes: 1)the development of alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture; and 2) therehabilitation of degraded lands. |
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