Pemerintah Kabupaten Gunungkidul bertekad mengembangkan hutan jati rakyat. Kali ini bekerja sama dengan Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Menanggapi rendahnya harga jati di Gunungkidul, Ketua Centre for International Forestry Research Dede Rohadi mengatakan perbedaan itu terjadi karena petani kurang cukup informasi, termasuk soal sertifikasi. "Selama ini petani cenderung bertindak sendiri-sendiri, sehingga daya tawarnya tidak kuat," katanya.
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Proyek Hutan Jati Rakyat
Dalam rangka memberdayakan masyarakat di Gunungkidul, Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) yang didanai Australian Center for Agricultural Research, kemarin (15/4), memaparkan proyek pengembangan hutan jati rakyat kabupaten itu. Melalui kegiatan di Hotel Quality, Jl Laksda Adisucipto, Yogyakarta tersebut diharapkan akan menghasilkan sistem pengelolaan terpadu hutan rakyat.
Gunung Kidul Kembangkan Hutan di Lahan Kritis
Pada seminar Peningkatan Manfaat Ekonomi Hutan Rakyat Jati dalam Sistem `Agroforestry` yang diselenggarakan CIFOR (The Center for International Forestry Research), ia menjelaskan pemerintah daerah dalam pengelolaan hutan rakyat memprioritaskan sumber daya hutan dan lahan dalam setiap sisi manfaat. "Sisi manfaat itu antara lain manfaat ekologi untuk mengendalikan laju degradasi sumber daya hutan, tanah dan air," katanya.
World cooling on biofuel
Biofuel producers are struggling with high costs. But Indonesia appears intent on running up that debt. Already at least 10 million of its 22.5 million hectares of peatland have been cleared, according to the Centre for International Forestry Research, and the clearing shows no sign of slowing.
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Cameroon: Global Trends Exposes Weakness in Food Production.
Ousseynou Ndoye and David Kaimowitz (1999) has shown that in 1984 alone farmers in the Southwest Province and the Mungo Valley who had swung their focus towards the cultivation of cocoa and coffee used 458,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of cocoa and coffee as opposed to 342,000 hectares of land that was used for food crop production.
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Destrucción de bosques estimula el calentamiento
"De 20 a 25% de las emisiones totales de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) son consecuencia de la deforestación y degradación de bosques; eso es más de lo que produce el sector transporte, en todo el mundo", así lo estimó Markku Kanninen, miembro del Panel Intergubernamental para el Cambio Climático -órgano multilateral que recibió el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 2007- durante el foro Presión del cambio climático sobre los bosques tropicales , promovido por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo.
World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change
Demand for palm oil has also been a major source of land clearing here. The spread of palm oil plantations into forests and highly sensitive peatlands on Sumatra and Borneo islands have helped make Indonesia the world’s third-highest greenhouse gas emitter. But Indonesia appears intent on running up that debt. Already at least 10 million of its 22.5 million hectares of peatland have been cleared, according to the Centre for International Forestry Research, and the clearing shows no sign of slowing.
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Institut Géographique du Burkina – Des métadonnées pour valorise la production
Du 26 au 28 Mars 2008, se tient á Ouagadougou un atelier de formation sur la production de métadonnées au profit d’une trentaine de participants de l’Administration publique, du secteur privé et de société civile. Cet atelier est organisé par l’Institut géographique du Burkina (IGB) avec pour point de mire le lancement du portail Géo de notre pays.