Provisional Programme
(Rev.1 – 1 August 2007)
International Conference to Promote Non-Timber Forest
Products and Services
Room26-28 September 2007
International Bamboo and Rattan Tower, Beijing, China
Hosted by Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
Organized by ITTO
in collaboration with FAO, INBAR and ICBR
Time
Theme
Day 1: Wednesday, 26 September
8:00 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:50
Speaker
Registration
Opening ceremony
Welcoming Address by Madame Jiang Zehui, Former President of Chinese
Academy of Forestry, China
Opening statements by Representative of Chinese Ministry of Commerce,
Beijing, China
Opening statements by Dr. Manoel Sobral Filho, Executive Director, ITTO,
Yokohama, Japan
Opening statements by Representative of Chinese State Forestry
Administration, Beijing, China
Group photo
9:50 - 10:20 Coffee/Tea break
Session 1: Global and Regional Overview in Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)
Chair: Host Government
10:20–10:50 Global Trends in NTFPs trade and their prospects
Mr. Paul Vantomme,
for income generation
FAO, Rome, Italy
10:50–11:20
Global issues and opportunities in promoting
community forest management and enterprises
Mr. Alastair Sarre, ITTO,
Yokohama, Japan
11:00–11:20
The Current Situation and Future Perspective of
Non-Timber Forest Products Development in
China
Prof. Shougong ZHANG
President
Chinese Academy of
Forestry, Beijing
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11:20–11:40
11:40–12:00
12:00–12:30
12:30-14:00
Non-timber production and sustainable
development in the Amazon
Prof. Floriano Pastore,
Brazil
[ITTO project PD 31/99 Rev.3 (I)]
Sustainable management of Non-timber Forest
Products (NTFPs) in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon
and Central African Republic
[ITTO pre-project PPD 19/01 Rev.2 (I)]
IUCN Regional Office,
Cameroon
(To be decided)
Questions and answers
Lunch
Session 2: Forest services: Opportunities for Alternative Investments
Chair: ITTO
14:00–14:50 Global overview of payment of environmental
Forest
services (PES): linking between PES and avoided
Trends/Katoomba Group
tropical deforestation
(To be decided)
14:50–15:15 Payment of environmental services provided by
Mexico
tropical forests: experiences from Mexico
(To be decided)
15:15–15:40
Creating and sustaining a market for
environmental services from China’s tropical
forests
[ITTO PD 295/04 Rev.2 (M)]
15:40–16:10
16:10–16:30
16:30–16:50
Questions and answers
Coffee/Tea break
Economic Policy and Financial Innovation for
Investment in Forest Environmental Services
16:50-17:10
Carbon credits from Reforestation for Guangxi
Watershed Management in Pearl River Basin in
China under the Clean Development Mechanism
of the Kyoto Protocol
17:10–17:30
Eco-tourism Developments in a Communitybased Transboundary Management Plan for the
Betung Kerihun National Park, West Kalimantan,
Indonesia
[ITTO project PD 26/93 and PD 44/00]
17:30-17:50
17:50-18:00
Questions and answers
Break-out groups
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
18:30
Mr. Hou Yuanzhao
Research Institute of
Forestry Policy,
Chinese Academy of
Forestry, Beijing, China
United Nations
Economic and Social
Commission for Asia
and the Pacific
(UNESCAP)
Bangkok, Thailand
(To be decided)
Dr. Xiaoquan Zhang,
Institute of Forest
Ecology and
Environment, Chinese
Academy of Forestry,
Beijing, China
Mr Hermayani,
WWF Indonesia
I: Policy and institutional frameworks for promoting NTFPs
II: Social and economic contributions of NTFPs
III:Technical improvements for value adding NTFPs
IV: Marketing and trade of NTFPs
V: Environmental services provided by tropical forests
Reception hosted by ITTO
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Day 2: Thursday, 27 September
Session 3: Production and Marketing of NTFPs: Product Specific Trends and
Scientific Findings
Chair: INBAR
9:00 – 9:20
Non-timber forest products in India, their
Dr Bipin Behari
sustainable management and trade
Ministry of Environment
and Forests, New Delhi,
India
9:20 – 9:40
Improvement of the sustainable management
Mr Ly Chou Beang,
and utilization of NTFPs in Cambodia
Cambodia Forestry
[ITTO project PD275/04 R.2 (I)]
Administration,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
9:40 –10:00 Bamboo as an Important NTFP Species - Its
Prof Maoyi FU,
resources and utilization: challenges for
Subtropical Forest
sympodial bamboo
Research Institute,
[ITTO Project PD 10/00Rev.2 (F,I)]
Fuyang, China
10:00–10:20
Development and Application of New Engineered
Materials from Bamboo Resources
Prof. Xuhe CHEN
Advisor
ICBR, Beijing, China
10:20-10:40
Potential of building Bamboo houses in Peru
Dr. Josefina Takahashi
Executive Director
PERUBAMBU
Lima, Peru
10:40–11:00
11:00–11:20
11:20–11:50
Questions and answers
Coffee/Tea break
Promoting Sustainable Utilization of Bamboo
through Community Participation in Sustainable
Forest Management in Myanmar
[ITTO project PD 146/02 Rev.1 (I)]
Development and application of production and
utilization technologies for rattan sustainable
development in the ASEAN member countries
[ITTO project PD 334/05 Rev.2 (I)]
11:50–12:10
12:10-12:30
Rattan Cultivation for Edible Shoots Production
in Southern China
[ITTO project PD 100/01 Rev.3 (I)]
12:30–12:40
Questions and answers
12:40–14:00
Lunch
Session 4: Community-based Forest Enterprises – NTFPs as
Alleviation
Chair: ICBR
14:00-14:20 Promotion of Tropical Non-wood Forest Products
(NWFPs) in Guangxi Autonomous Region, P R.
China, Based on Sustainable Community
Development
[ITTO project PD 73/01 Rev.5 (I,M)]
14:20-14:40 Community based forest production techniques –
Mr. Ohn Win
Forest Research
Institute, Yezin,
Myanmar
Dr. Aida B. Lapis
ERDB - ECOSYSTEMS
RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT BUREAU
Laguna, Philippines
Dr Huang Shineng,
Research Institute of
Tropical Forestry, CAF,
Guangdong
a Source of Poverty
Prof. Dongyun XIANG
Guangxi Forestry
Academy
Guangxi. China
Dr. Florence Soriano,
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14:40-15:00
15:00–15:20
merging indigenous and new technical
understandings on resin production
[ITTO project PD 36/99 Rev.4 (I)]
Providing Village Communities with basic
Technological Training for Extracting Valuable
Essential Oils from Eucalyptus Citriodpra
Plantations in Rural Areas of Congo
[ITTO project PD 364/05 Rev.3 (I)]
Questions and answers
15:20-15:40
15:40-16:00
Coffee/Tea break
Current Status of Bio-Energy from Non-wood
Forest Biomass in China
16:00-16:20
Charcoal Supply Chains in Ethiopia, Kenya and
Mozambique
16:20-16:40
Bio-energy village: independent supply of heat
and electricity through biomass – experience
from Junde, Germany
16:40-17:00
Questions and answers
17:00–18:00
Group discussions
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
18:30
FPRDI, Laguna,
Philippines
Republic of Congo
(to be decided)
Dr. Fuxiang CHU
Chinese Academy of
Forestry, Beijing, China
Jeeva Duraisany,
INBAR, Beijing, China
Dr. Peter Schröder
Germany
I: Policy and institutional frameworks for promoting NTFPs
II: Social and economic contributions of NTFPs
III:Technical improvements for value adding NTFPs
IV: Marketing and trade of NTFPs
V: Environmental services provided by tropical forests
Dinner hosted by Chinese Government
Day 3: Friday, 28 September
Session 5: Current Challenges and Obstacles in NTFP Development
Chair: FAO
9:00-9:20
The Global NTFP Partnership
Dr.Ralf Kwaschik,
INBAR, Beijing, China
9:20-9:50
Promotion of NTFPs in transboundary biodiversity Dr Paul Chai
conservation: lessons learned from the Lanjak
Project Leader for ITTO
Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary and the Pulong Tau
PD 244/03
National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
Sarawak, Malaysia
[ITTO project PD106/90 Rev.1 (F) and PD 244/03
Rev.3 (F)]
9:50-10:10
How best to include NTFP into the existing forest
policy and regulatory frameworks
Central African Republic
(To be decided)
10:10-10:40
Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable
Management of Forest Resources for Non-Timber
Dr. James L.
Chamberlain,
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Products
10:40-11:00
Questions and answers
11:00-11:30
Coffee/Tea break
USDA Forest Service,
Southern Research
Station, National
Agroforestry Center
VA, USA
Session 6: Future Prospects for NTFP Development and Forest Services
Chair: ITTO
11:30–12:30 Group Discussions
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
I: Policy and institutional frameworks for promoting NTFPs
II: Social and economic contributions of NTFPs
III:Technical improvements for value adding NTFPs
IV: Marketing and trade of NTFPs
V: Environmental services provided by tropical forests
12:30–14:00
14:00–15:00
Lunch
Presentation of Working Groups
15:00–15:30
Conclusions and recommendations of the
Conference: Follow-up actions to promote
tropical NTFPs and services
Session 7: Closing Plenary
Moderator: Host Government
15:30-16:00 Closing session
16:00
Moderators of the five
working groups
Mr Alast Sarre, ITTO
Mr Paul Vantomme, FAO
ITTO
CAF
INBAR
ICBR
End of Session
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