Ecosystem services Initiative
Workshop on Forest Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) in collaboration with Nottingham university, UK

The workshop was held in IBRAD campus from 15.12.2010 to 18.12.2010 .

Often, it is witnessed and documented that different line departments such as the forest ,agriculture, irrigation, horticulture, soil conservation who need to work in an integrated manner, work in isolation depending on their own agenda(.ref planning commission mid-term appraisal of 11th five year plan july2010). This has been major block in managing forest mosaic landscape with agriculture and horticulture. Such isolated management approach also fragments the ecosystem which has severe consequences on Ecosystem Services.

 

Objectives of the workshop are :

How the participating sectors like forest ,agriculture , horticulture , irrigation and NGOs and community will work together and develop an integrated approach towards Ecosystem Service

How other participating academic institutes like University of Nottingham, XLRI Jamshedpur, Jadavpur University NAEB, IBRAD can contribute through reserch for understanding the ecosystem process and benefits as ecosystem service to address the problems of poverty of people .

How to involve different stake holders as partners in the ESPA project by sharing the objective of ESPA and their roles the study. The workshop also provided the opportunity to learn the expectation of the partners and how best they can contribute in the project.

Interaction among the members of the consortium provided opportunity to develop outline the drafting of the proposal of ESPA.

Followed by the workshop a field visit was covered in Mahabebnagar in the first phase and Kankinara forest department in the second phase in Andhrapradesh .

 

Presentation on issues related to eco-system services by experts were:

Presentation of Prof. Roy Haines-Young from University of Nottingham

Presentation by Prof. (Dr.) Asis Mazumdar from REGIONAL CENTRE , NAEB, Jadavpur University mainly focused on Poverty Alleviation programme and ecosystem services.

Presentation by Mr. Krishne Gowda, Conservator of Forest, Karnataka Forest Department.

Presentation by P. Rajanikanth ,SPO - PFM, Centre for People's Forestry, Secunderabad.

Presentation by Dr.Sanjay Kumar.

On the 16th December,2010 discussion was held among the members of the IndES consortium such as Roy Haines-Young , S.B. Roy , Sanjay Kumar, Raghu Ram Tata, Raktima Mukherjee and some experts from forest department, academics and NGOs They .worked to draft the outline of the methodology for conducting the study. Followed by the workshop two field visits 1..Mahboobnagar Forest Division and 2.Kakinada Forest Division and meeting with Andhra Pradesh Forest Deopartment was organised