Two Landcare projects were launched on the Pozible Crowd Funding platform on 18th September. One is in Indonesia and the other in Bangladesh. We would value your pledge of support no matter how small to help get these two projects funded. Both will make an amazing difference in their respective communities.
A Film Journey Into Landscape Restoration
Australian Forest Growers (through its branch ‘Ballarat Region Treegrowers’) in conjunction with She Oaks Films are proud to present our film “Rediscovering the Country – A Journey into Landscape Restoration”.
The film helps promote our vision for Australia’s rural landscapes – one with less erosion, more beauty, plenty of native grass, trees and wildlife AND a way for people to earn an ‘environmentally friendly’ income through different kinds of tree growing.
Rediscovering The Country from SheOaks Films on Vimeo.
The film can be downloaded from here.
Above from left: The Indonesian delegates (Sutar, Suwardi, Silvi, Siti, Uyung) with their Philippines Landcare hosts (Frandel and Evy)For 10 days in August 2014, five Indonesian Landcare delegates visited the Philippines to learn from the Philippines Landcare program. The Indonesian group was made up of three farmer facilitators from the Merapi Landcare program, the Sahabat Lahan Indonesia (SLI) Landcare facilitator and a community forestry lecturer from the Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.
The study tour, hosted by the Landcare Foundation of the Philippines (LFPI) was sponsored by Australian Landcare International (ALI) with generous support from The Crawford Fund and was coordinated by Victoria Mack, Director of the Secretariat for International Landcare (SILC).
The Indonesian delegates gained significant knowledge and understanding about how Landcare in the Philippines is embedded in the community and how it works collaboratively with farmer groups across the islands. The study tour was greatly enriched by the practical field-based learning sites and also the interactive discussions with key Filipino Landcare personnel.
There were many visits to meet the leaders of the local government units, and the smaller barangays, which showed how mutually beneficial partnerships have been nurtured to advance the sustainability of the Landcare process. The Indonesians also learned about the importance of research partnerships and collaborations with other relevant agencies, including NGOs.
The important role of Landcare facilitators was clearly demonstrated and articulated by the many Landcare facilitators who joined the tour at various sites. These exchanges allowed the Indonesians to consider their own roles in Landcare and also their future roles.
From an Australian perspective, the study tour highlighted the beneficial impact of the Philippines Landcare program on the farmers and communities that are involved. For many municipalities, Landcare is now an established mainstream program that helps their farmers to improve the livelihoods and their natural resources.
Victoria Mack’s report of her November 2013 visit to the Merapi Landcare project, and also with the Sahabat Lahan Indonesia (Landcare Indonesia) Board can be accessed here.
SLI meeting at Gadjah Mada University: From left: Uyung Pramudianto (SLI facilitator), Dr. Satyawan Pudyatmoko (Dean of the Faculty of Forestry UGM), Victoria Mack (Director SILC), Yudo Istoto, (Chair Sahabat Lahan Indonesia SLI) and Prof. Dr. Sambas Sabarnurdin (Chair Board of Trustees SLI). Photo: SILC Nov. 2013.
Recent project photos can be accessed here.
Dr Zahoor Aslam has submitted the attached paper on priorities for Pakistan Agriculture by 2030 which can be read here.
Media Release – Landcare in Bangladesh
Landcare Bangladesh was launched at the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday 11th July 2013.
This exciting development means that Bangladesh joins a number of countries around the world adopting Landcare to address pressing issues of livelihood, environmental management and agricultural production.
The launch of Landcare Bangladesh follows eighteen months of intense work with farming communities in the Sylhet region in north-east Bangladesh by Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB). The drivers behind this pilot work are Dr Shaikh Tanveer Hossain, Sustainable Agriculture Advisor & Chief Agricultural Coordinator and Mr Zahid Hossain, Director of the Livelihood Enhancement Program of FIVDB.
Since March 2012 they have worked intensely with village farmers and communities with the support of FIVDB field facilitators to establish five model house projects in each of 22 areas across the Sylhet region.
Australian Directors of the Secretariat for International Landcare (SILC), Sue Marriott and Victoria Mack, were invited to participate in the official launch Landcare Bangladesh (LCB) on behalf of the Landcare Bangladesh interim committee.
For more photos see Bangladesh page
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Videos and transcripts of all Conference presentations are now available at the Conference website International Delegates attending the Sydney National Landcare Conference – September 2012. From left: (back row) Ajaz Rana (Pakistan), Sue Marriott (SILC), Asia Gulnaz (Pakistan), Jashim Uddin … Continue reading
Videos and transcripts of all Conference presentations are now available at the Conference website at: http://www.daff.gov.au/landcareconference
In particular the excellent presentation by Dr David Suzuki can be accessed here
Dr David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and Global 500. Dr Suzuki is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and holds 28 honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the multi-award–winning, long-running CBC science and natural history television series The Nature of Things, and to radio audiences as the original host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, as well as the acclaimed series It is a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. In 1990 he co-founded The David Suzuki Foundation to work with “government, business and individuals to conserve our environment by providing science-based education, advocacy and policy work for social change that today’s situation demands”. His written work includes more than 54 books, 19 of them for children. Dr Suzuki lives with his wife, Dr Tara Cullis, and family in Vancouver, B.C.
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