International Conference on Forests and Rural Livelihoods
PENews 2010-3 (December): Setting the stage for our events in London CONTENT:
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| Period | 15/06/2011 |
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| Event location | University of East Anglia Norwich, UK |
| Host | University of East Anglia and CIFOR |
| Event URL | http:// www.cifor.cgiar.org/pen/london-conference. |
| Contact person |
The Conference Organiser
Email address: cifor-pen@cgiar.org. |
| Contributor | Emmanuel Marfo |
| Geographical coverage | Global, |
| Keywords | forest, poverty, rural livehood |
CIFOR-PEN and its partners are organising a final science workshop and an international policy conference that will be the culmination of CIFOR's 7- year PEN project. And we intend to make the scope of the conference much wider than PEN. We plan to make the conference a global forum on the role of environmental income and forests in rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation. We are thus inviting leading researchers and institutions to take part. We will also link with CIFOR's ‘International Year of Forests’ schedule, a range of global events to focus world attention on key issues facing tropical forests.
The one-day international policy conference will be held at The Royal Society in London on 15 June 2011. It aims to increase awareness about the links between the natural environment and poverty by presenting new findings and by bringing together an audience of 200–300 of the world’s leading researchers, policy makers and practitioners and the media. The much anticipated results from the PEN global study will be presented along with presentations from other large-scale comparative research projects, including the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI), the World Bank and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The purpose of this conference is to help put the environment more realistically onto the poverty agenda, and to strengthen the case for systematic data collection on the ways in which poor people rely on environmental income.