Experiences from Bai Bang with global reflections
SIFI seminar at the academy – June 3
| Time | Monday 03 June, at 13.00–17.00 |
| Venue | Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien, Drottninggatan 95 B, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Registration | No later than 29 May via this link or through our website www.ksla.se (cancellation must be made not later than 24 May or we will send an invoice SEK 500 to cover our costs) |
| Questions | Content: Fredrik Ingemarson, fredrik.ingemarson@ksla.se, tel + 46 8 54 54 77 11Registration: Gun Askerö, gun.askero@ksla.se, tel + 46 8 54 54 77 12, +46 701 603 309 |
| Webb | No webcastThis conference is financed by the Carl Fredrik von Horns foundation |
Background
Restoration of degraded forests is very much up on the agenda. The World Resources Institute (WRI) talks about the need to restore two billion ha with degraded land. Restoration work has gone on for long but has met many difficulties along the way. This concerns both intensive industrial plantations and small-scale farm forestry. If programs for restoration shall succeed at a large scale we must try to learn from both successes and failures. This seminar highlights Swedish experiences from the development project in Bai Bang, Vietnam and opens up for a discussion about how these lessons could be used in other parts of the world.
Many plantations have failed
One can easily get the impression that plantations in the South are a great success. In reality many plantations have failed. Many projects run into social problems with increasing attention in the domestic and international media. StoraEnso, Vattenfall, the Diocese of Västerås, SEKAB, ADDAX and others have been engaged in biomass production in the South and evidently with good intentions. These enterprises have, however, experienced problems and heavy criticism. It may be that some of the criticism is unjust, but it seems difficult for Nordic actors to engage in biomass production in the South without running into real problems. Is it too difficult? Many argue that the best solution is to engage farmers in the production, but this is also a true challenge.
The open landscape has been changed into forest
The bare hills around Bai Bang that looked like a desert in the 1980s are now covered with forests. The first plantations were established by state enterprises and co-operatives, but after the economic reforms in 1986 (Doi Moi) farmers started to plant trees as a commercial crop. Today, it is reported that more or less all wood for Bai Bang is directly or indirectly produced by farmers. It is interesting to note that the farmers seem to have adjusted the original “intensive” method to suit their own conditions. The open landscape around Bai Bang has been changed into forest, but in spite of this there is no talk of conflict. The seminar focus on the main reasons behind this success, e.g. the establishment of a reliable market or that land was allocated to farmers?
Program
Moderator Dr. Fredrik Ingemarson, Project Manager for the Secretariat for International Forestry Issues (SIFI), KSLA
| 13.00 | Welcome remarks
Carl-Anders Helander, Secretary General and Managing Director, KSLA |
| 13.10 | The future of the Vietnam forestry sector
Nghia Dai Tran, the head of the research group in environment and climate change at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) |
| 13.30 | Introduction of the Bai Bang development project
Reidar Persson Prof, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, SIFI |
| 13.50 | Swedish experiences from Bai Bang
Petter Otterstedt, Senior adviser |
| 14.20 | Coffee |
| 14.40 | Lessons learned from Bai Bang
Mats Sandewall, Dr, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU |
| 15.00 | Global reflections
Eva Lindskog, Senior adviser, Stockholm Environmental Institute, SEI Antti Marjokorpi, Dr, Group Forest Operations, StoraEnso Jörgen Sandström, Deputy Project Managing Director, ADDAX Pär Oscarsson, Director, African Opportunities Mattias Goldmann, Project Manager, Global Utmaning Ngolia Kimanzu, Senior adviser, Swedish Cooperative Centre Jan-Erik Nylund, Prof, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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| 16.00 | Discussions with the floor about experiences and implementations
Moderator Fredrik Ingemarson, SIFI, KSLA |
| 16.45 | Winding up
Björn Lundgren, Chair, The Secretariat for International Forestry Issues, SIFI |
| 17.00 | Closing of the seminar and mingle
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| SIFI prepared the seminar with round tables and reports, please find more information about the Vietnam project at www.sifi.se. The Institute of Policy and Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) and the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) are special invited speakers and guests. | |
More about the SIFI project about Vietnam
https://www.sifi.se/projekt/erfarenheter-fran-vietnam/
