Agroforestry contributes towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on hunger, climate, life on land, poverty, gender equity and social inclusion. Despite its potential for driving sustainable development and enhanced income benefits, agroforestry continues to face a range of technical, functional, policy, legal and institutional challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region. To realize the full potential of agroforestry, there is an urgent need to review the innovative strategies and lessons learnt for scaling-up the investment and monitoring platforms in agroforestry sector and adopting it at a higher scale by the smallholder farmers, especially women farmers in this region.
The objective of this expert consultation is to enlighten the stakeholders and prioritize regional needs for mainstreaming agroforestry, especially to achieve SDGs.
The Regional Expert Consultation will provide a platform to broaden the scope and understanding on agroforestry, learn and share from regional experiences on the advance technologies, tools and platforms to mainstream agroforestry and explore regional collaboration /cooperation on agroforestry priority areas for sustainable development in Asia-Pacific region.
Opening Session
Vincent Lin
Ravi Khetarpal
Session 1: Sustainable Development through Agroforestry
- Overview and potential of Agroforestry
Shiv Kumar Dhyani, Country Coordinator, India & Senior Agroforestry Specialist, CIFOR-ICRAF and Javed Rizvi, Director, Asia, CIFOR-ICRAF - Agroforestry System – Food Security, Climate Mitigation and Rural Employment
A. Arunachalam, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR-CAFRI) - Agroforestry: Innovations and public-Private partnerships
Ravi Prabhu, Director of Innovation, Investment and Impact, CIFOR-ICRAF - Agroforestry and Water for Resilient Landscape
Ramesh Singh, Principal Scientist, Soil and Water Conservation, ICRISAT - Open Discussion
Ramesh Singh
Session 2: Enabling Policies and Scaling-up Investment in Agroforestry
- Need and Value of Policy: Learnings and Expectations from Policy and its Implementation
Javed Rizvi, Director, Asia, CIFOR-ICRAF and Sunil Londhe, Soil Health & Geoinformatics Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF - Innovative Strategies for Scaling-up Investment in Agroforestry
Helen Wallace, Griffith University Queensland - Agroforestry – a climate smart agriculture production system
Md Abiar Rahman, Country Liaison Scientist- Bangladesh, CIFOR-ICRAF - Open Discussion
Session 3: Agroforestry and Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Success Stories
- Mapping spatially-explicit roadmap for scaling agroforestry
Chandra Shekhar Biradar, Research Team Leader – Geo BigData Driven Digital Augmentation for Sustainable Agro-ecosystems (GeoAgro), ICARDA - Agroforestry and Tree Outside Forest (TOF) Business Incubator
K. T. Parthiban, Dean (Forestry), Forest College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University - Agroforestry: Food and Nutritional Security
Stepha McMullin, Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF - Cacao Value Chain and Emerging Opportunities
Christophe Kouame, Country Director Cote d’Ivoire, CIFOR-ICRAF - Open Discussion
Chandrashekhar Biradar
K. T. Parthiban
Session 4: Panel Discussion on Regional Priorities (Research Areas, Capacity Development, Regulatory Policy Development & Public Awareness, and Possible Partnerships) to Achieve SDGs
- Priority Research and Innovation
Mi Sun Park, Associate Professor, Seoul National University - Applications of Biotechnological Tools
Taichi Oguchi, Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba - Developing agroforestry value chains from the perspective of smallholders and small and mediums enterprises
Dietmar Stoian, Lead Scientist, Value Chains, Private Sector Engagement and Investments, CIFOR-ICRAF - Financing Smallholders and Small- and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Harsh D. Kulkarni, Vice President, ITC - Capacity development for innovation, communication and Public Awareness
Martina Spisiakova, Knowledge Management Coordinator, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) - Open Discussion
Harsh D. Kulkarni
Martina Spisiakova
Concluding Session
- Key Recommendations from Technical Sessions
Sunil Londhe, Soil Health & Geoinformatics Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF and Devashree Nayak, Agroforestry & Gender Research Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF - Concluding Remarks
Javed Rizvi, Director, Asia, CIFOR-ICRAF and Ravi Khetarpal, Executive Secretary, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) - Vote of Thanks
Jack Lin, APAARI
Ravi Khetarpal
