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= **MP6: Forests and Trees: Livelihoods, landscapes and governance** =

Download the July 2010 consultation proposal



In this document, we, members of the CGIAR Consortium, propose an impact-driven, long-term and integrated research initiative focused on addressing global challenges and opportunities for forests, agroforestry and tree diversity across the developing world. Forests and Trees: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance (Consortium Research Program No. 6; CRP6) will deliver the knowledge needed to improve livelihoods of the poor, increase the area of forests and trees managed for conservation and use, reduce carbon emissions from deforestation, and minimize biodiversity loss. The principal CGIAR centers involved in CRP6—CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research), ICRAF (The World Agroforestry Centre), Bioversity and CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture)—bring a wealth of knowledge on forests, agroforestry, forest and farm landscape mosaics, and the people that depend on the resources these systems provide. We will engage with a broad partnership of targeted institutions to advance a jointly developed research agenda. Our combined strengths in social and policy research, economics, biophysical sciences, and knowledge sharing give us the proven ability to deliver world-class analysis to our target audiences. It is our aspiration that over the next 10 years, CRP6 will ensure that [more precise estimates of impacts will be included in final version of proposal]:  livelihoods of significant numbers of disadvantaged and vulnerable people are improved through socially and ecologically sustainable management of forests, agroforestry systems and trees;  significant areas of multifunctional landscapes balance the provision of functions for local stakeholders and external markets, while maintaining natural capital and environmental services;  new forest-and-climate management regimes, currently being negotiated at global and national levels, are effective, efficient and equitable;  there is a significant positive shift in the way globalized trade and investment affects forests in major tropical and subtropical ecoregions, national markets and the economic conditions of local people; and  key forest and tree resources, including genetic variability, will be available for future generations while improving the well-being of people currently living in areas of high poverty.