Economic development strategies as part of restoration programs
The Drylands are usually located in less developed countries (LDC's), which are only able to provide low standards of living to their inhabitants. The recent economic growth of these LCD's, has been insufficient and much of it has been absorbed by population growth. Moreover, dryland LDC's lack capital and international assistance has often been ineffective. These states also suffer from natural limiting factors such as water assets, climate and degraded soils, as well as difficulties in providing infrastructures and delivering health and education services. The session of Economic Development Strategies for the Drylands, which has been privileged with the attendance of Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, is devoted to the application of economic tools to the problems of the drylands and to the strategies devised to cope with them at the macro as well as at the micro levels.
Theme Organizers:
Prof. Moshe Schwartz
Human and Dryland Department, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Invited Guests:
Dr. Henri Rueff
University of Bern, Switzerland
Title of Abstract:
Minimum Carbon Payment for Dryland Afforestation in Non Annex I Countries with Stochastic Weather and Prices
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Henri Rueff is a researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland. For the last ten years, he has worked on pastoral systems and afforestation in the drylands. While he has researched the interplay between the two (mobile herders making use of afforested land for grazing, and forest agencies making use of grazing as a means of fire control), his current research interests center on land use change and carbon payment for various stakeholders (i.e. smallholders, pastorals, forest and governmental agencies) and the relevant policy implications. While extensively working in the Middle East, Henri Rueff has extended his research focus to alpine transhumance systems in the Himalayan-Hindukush Mountains of Northern Pakistan. Aside from his research interests, he has worked as a consultant for the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva mandated by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Delphine Bernadette Ouedraogo
Permanent Secretary of the National Committee of the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), Burkina Faso.
Title of Abstract:
Rehabilitation of rugged lands techniques: Assisted natural regeneration in the central north of Burkina Faso
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Mrs. OUEDRAOGO is a Forestry expert, specialized in regional planning, Town and country planning, specialized in multi-media communication, and integrated management of the water resources. She has co-coordinated the management of projects and sustainable control programs of the natural resources, teaches free-lance at the University of Ouagadougou and the Institute of Genius of the Environment and Sustainable Development and in the Department of Geography. She is a Professional Master in SIG and at the African Institute of Professionalization in Management since 2004.
From 1996 to 2000, she was in charge of monitoring the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). From 2000 to 2008, she was the national focal point of the United Convention to Combat Desertification. From 2002-2004 she was the Director of the Coordination to Combat Desertification and also Coordinator of the elaboration of the Country partnership program for sustainable land management. During 2004-2008 she was the Director of the Partnership and the Coordination of International Conventions concerning Environment. Since November 2008, she is the Permanent secretary of the National Committee of Permanent Inter-State committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).
She has participated in various international meetings such as: (1997-2007) Participation at African Regional Preparatory Conferences and the Conferences of Parties to the Convention to combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Rome, Italy, Dakar, Bonn/Germany, Geneva/Switzerland, Havana/Cuba, Nairobi/Kenya, Buenos Aires/Argentina, Kigali/Rwanda and Madrid/Spain. Participation in the 12th and the 13th Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Nairobi/Kenya and Bali/Indonesia. (2007-2008): New York (USA) participation in the 15th and the 16th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CDD15 and CDD16) and participation on the synergies between conventions of the Rio generation (desertification, climate change, biodiversity).
Mrs. Delphine has held extensive research grants and consultancies and published on policy, physical activity, community participation and the local techniques to combat desertification and to adapt on climate change.
Her research focuses on testing agro-forestry in a plantation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis in association with food crops (sorghum - groundnut). Establishment of test maintenance of soil fertility with Prosopis juliflora ; the decentralization of the management of natural resources (case study of the forest of Nazinon) ; evaluation of the involvement of women in the cycle Draft Drinking Water and Sanitation in Poni area. Currently, she is involved in research on used waste water in urban agriculture; land degradation and adaptation to climate change, various rehabilitations of rugged lands techniques
