CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR-ICRAF publie chaque année plus de 750 publications sur l’agroforesterie, les forêts et le changement climatique, la restauration des paysages, les droits, la politique forestière et bien d’autres sujets encore, et ce dans plusieurs langues. .

CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

RUPES = Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services

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Among the vast multitude of the poor in Asia, the populations that are most marginalizedare those living in the hilly and mountainous areas. The benefits of national and localinvestments in economic development often bypass these upland communities and in manycases they are bearing a large share of the negative aspects of development.It is increasingly evident that the real plight of mountain and upland poor communities hasbeen overlooked. There is an urgent need to support a process of self-empowerment sothat poor upland people can take the necessary decisions to build a sustainable futurebased on their resources, on improved technology and centuries of accumulated wisdom.We now know that many upland and mountain communities in Asia manage landscapesthat provide environmental services to outside beneficiaries. The services they provideinclude clean and abundant water supplies from watersheds, biodiversity protection, stocksof carbon that may alleviate global warming and landscape beauty for recreation andtourism. However upland communities are not sharing in the benefits that these servicesprovide. Rewarding the poor upland communities for
    Année de publication

    2003

    Auteurs

    World Agroforestry

    Langue

    English

    Mots clés

    environmental services, research, germplasm, carbon

    Géographique

    Indonesia

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