ASEAN-Swiss Partnership for Social Forestry and Climate Change Technical support for policy development to ASEAN and Member States Funded by Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation Two previous phases over 10 years Third and final phase underway Provides support for secretarial and technical assistance to the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG SF) formerly the ASEAN Social Forestry Network Secretariat: 3 staff based at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry building in Jakarta. Responsible for coordination and communication Technical partners: World Agroforestry Centre, Center for International Forestry Research, RECOFTC The Center for People and Forests, Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme, Southeast Asia Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
ASEAN-Swiss Partnership for Social Forestry and Climate Change Selected achievements Plan of action Vision and Strategic Plan for ASEAN Cooperation in Food, Agriculture and Forestry Policy briefs Agroforestry in Southeast Asia: bridging the forestry–agriculture divide for sustainable development (วนเกษตรในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้: เชื่อมโยงการแบ่งแยกป่าไม้และการเกษตรเพื่อการพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน) Swidden-fallow agroforestry for sustainable land use in Southeast Asia (วนเกษตรในไร่หมุนเวียนเพื่อการใช้ที่ดินอย่างยั่งยืนสาหรับประเทศในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต) Agroforestry for sustainable mountain management in Southeast Asia (วนเกษตรเพื่อการจัดการภูเขาอย่างยั่งยืน ในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต) Agroforestry on peatlands: combining productive and protective functions as part of restoration (วนเกษตรบนพื้นที่ป่าพรุ: การรวมบทบาททางการผลิตและปกป้องสิ่งแวดล้อมเข้าเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการบูรณะฟื้นฟูป่า) Agroforestry in the uplands of Southeast Asia Discussion paper Agroforestry: contribution to food security and climate-change adaptation and mitigation in Southeast Asia Forthcoming Agroforestry development: voluntary guidelines for ASEAN Member States Five more policy briefs and publication of the entire series in English, Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese Agroforestry training of trainers manual Agroforestry practical field guide
Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration Summary: The Group will compile and share knowledge with governments, civil society and practitioners in Sweden, ASEAN and member states (in particular, Cambodia, Myanmar and Viet Nam) on the development of agroforestry for food and nutritional security, sustainable agriculture, smallholders’ livelihoods, climate-change adaptation and mitigation, and landscape restoration towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger (as well as 1, 5, 13, 15, 17) Supported by the Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative
Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Restoration Group members from ICRAF; RECOFTC; Stockholm Environment Institute Asia; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; ASEAN Secretariat; ASEAN-Swiss Partnership for Social Forestry and Climate Change; Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia; Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia; Institute for Agricultural Environment, Viet Nam; Faculty of Environment, Viet Nam University of Agriculture; Consultancy for Forest Resources and Environmental Management, Viet Nam; Viet Nam Policy Advisory Council, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Through a series of in-person meetings, online platform and field visits, experts will provide input to the forthcoming publications of the AWG SF