Friday, April 7th Time Speaker Paper Title Affiliated Institution Registration 8 am Registration Open; Breakfast Available for Conference Presenters & Participants Opening words 8:45 am Opening Words, Les Whitmore (Bethesda ISTF) & Yale ISTF Co-Chairs Agroforestry & Biodiversity: Commercial Crops, Native Species, & Home Consumption Moderator:
Dr. Mark Ashton, Yale F&ES9 am Dr. Florencia Montagnini Biodiversity, Food Security, and Nutrient Management of Meso-American Homegardens Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut 9:30 am Dr. Eric M. Wiener Ecological Research and the Management of Young Successional Forests: A Case Study About the Reintroduction of Native Tree Species on terra firme Sites in Northeastern Peru Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey 10 am Dr. David King An Evaluation of the Contribution of Cultivated Allspice (Pimenta dioca) to Vertebrate Biodiversity US Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 10:30 am Dr. James Gockowski Why Farmers Conserve Biodiversity in Cocoa Agroforests International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria Gaddis-Smith
Keynote Speaker11:30 am Dr. David Kaimowitz On the Frontier of Multidisciplinary Research, What's at the End of the Road? Director General, CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia New Markets, Old Markets, & Economic Development: Certification, Integration, and Contingent Valuation
Moderator:
Dr. Chad Oliver,
Yale F&ES2 pm Dr. Pablo Martínez de Anguita Combating Deforestation Through Payments for Environmental Services Applied to Water Management: A case Study in the Calan Basin, Honduras Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain 2:30 pm Dr. Avrum J. Shriar Economic Integration, Land Concentration, and Rural Hardship On Guatemala’s Agricultural Frontier Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 3:15 pm Mr. Avery Cohn Agriculture Certification as a Conservation Tool Environmental Studies Doctoral Program, University of California, Santa Cruz 3:45 pm Dr. Diane Russell Farm and Forest in Central Africa: Toward an Integrated Rural Development Strategy US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC Saturday, April 8th Time Speaker Paper Title Affiliated Institution Registration 8:30 am Registration open; Breakfast Available for Conference Presenters & Participants Opening Words 9:15 am Opening Words, Yale ISTF Co-Chairs Socioeconomic Dimensions of Agroforestry: Understanding and Influencing Behavior and Policy
Moderator:
Dr. Amity Doolittle,
Yale F&ES9:30 am Mr. Fobissie Kalame Forest Utilization and Management in Kosti Province, Sudan, by Smallholder Farmers Viikki Tropical Resources Institute VITRI, University of Helsinki, Finland 10 am Dr. Martine Ngobo
(Paper presented by Jim Gockowski)Sustainable Cocoa Agroforests: Integrating Improved Livelihoods and Conservation at the Forest-Agriculture Interface in Southern Cameroon International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Sustainable Tree Crop Program, Yaoundé, Cameroon 10:45 am Ms. Teija Reyes Improved Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Land Management and Better Livelihoods in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 11:15 am Dr. Bishnu Hari Pandit Factors Influencing the Integration of Non-Timber Forest Products into Field Crop Cultivation: A Case from Eastern Nepal New ERA Limited, Kathmandu, Nepal Whose Territory? Whose History? Whose Policy?: New Approaches to Land-Use on the Agricultural Frontier
Moderator:
Dr. William Burch,
Yale F&ES1:30 pm Ms. Shawn W. Margles Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda: User Group Expectations of a Buffer Zone Management Plan Using SWOT-AHP Antioch New England Graduate School and Center for Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Keene, New Hampshire 2 pm Mr. Javier A. Arce Remnants of Agricultural Change in Peruvian Amazon Floodplain Forests Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University, New York 2:45 pm Dr. Aurélie Toillier Land Use Strategies of Peasants to Adapt to Forest Conservation Measures: A Case Study in the Eastern Rainforest in Madagascar. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Antanarivo, Madagascar 3:15 pm Ms. Marina Campos From Villains and Victims to Environmental Activists: New Social Movement on the Transamazon Highway Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut Closing Roundtable Discussion 4:30 pm Research frontiers of the agricultural frontier.