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Inga Foundation

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Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:
  • Indigenous people
  • Scientific and technological communities
  • Non-governmental organization
  • Farmers
Involvement in UN Partnerships: Yes
If yes, explain in detail: Invited to organise a side-event at CS 46 in October 2017 at FAO Rome.  Invited to address the Assembly.
Affiliation with other organizations: Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew. UK. Eden Project UK MOPAWI (Honduras) Ya'axche (Belize) UNFCCC 
Publications: SELECTED REFS. : INGA FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Bayliss-Smith, T.P. 1982. The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. Cambridge. CUP. Bayliss-Smith, T.P. and Feachem, R. (eds). 1977. Subsistence and Survival. London. Academic Press. Bayliss-Smith, T.P. and Hviding, E. 2000. Islands of Rainforest. Agroforestry, logging and eco-tourism in Solomon Islands. SOAS studies in Development Geography. Ashgate. England. Hands, M. R. 2004. Invited Co-author : El uso de Inga en Cultivo en Callejones; una alternativa sostenible comprobada a la agricultura migratoria en el Bosque Lluvioso. In : Cordero, J. and Boshier, D. H., (eds.) : Árboles de Centroamérica (Trees of Central America): Un Manual para Extensionistas. Oxford Forestry Institute (OFI) / CATIE. Oxford. UK. Hands, M. R. June 2002. Alley-Cropping as a Sustainable Alternative to Shifting Cultivation. Final Report. Project HND / B7-6201 / IB / 97 / 0533(08). Tropical Forests Budgetary Line. Commission of the European Communities. DG I. Brussels. Department of Geography. University of Cambridge. England. Hands, M. R. 1998. Invited chapter : The uses of Inga in the acid soils of the Rainforest zone : Alley-cropping Sustainability and Soil-regeneration. In : Pennington, T.D. and Fernandes, E.C.M. (eds.) The Genus Inga : Utilization. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. England. Hands, M. R., Harrison, A.F. and Bayliss-Smith, T. P. 1995. Invited chapter : Phosphorus Dynamics in Slash-and-Burn and Alley-cropping Systems of the Humid Tropics. In : Tiessen, H. (ed) Phosphorus in the Global Environment. SCOPE; UNEP sp. Publication. John Wiley. Hands, M. R., Bayliss-Smith, T. P. and Bache, B.W. 1993. Experimental Alley-cropping systems in Lowland Tropical Rain-forest sites in Costa Rica : I; Biomass production. Report to the Commission of the European Communities, DG XII. Science and Technology for Development. Brussels. Department of Geography. University of Cambridge. England. Hands, M. R. June 2007. The Cambridge Inga Projects : Continuing Projects since 2002. Report to the John Kyle Stone Trust on the visit of Mike Hands to the projects in May 2007. Penhale. Lostwithiel. Cornwall. UK. Pennington, T.D. and Sarukhan, J. 1968. Árboles Tropicales de México. Ediciones Científicas Universitarias. Serie Texto Científico Universitario. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México. Pennington, T.D. (1997). The genus Inga: Botany. pp 844. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Pennington, T. D., Reynel, C. and Daza, A. 2004. Trees of Peru. An Illustrated Guide. David Hunt. Sherborne. Dorset. England. Pennington, T.D. and Fernandes, E.C.M. (eds.) 1998. The Genus Inga : Utilization. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. England. Pennington, T.D. & Revelo, N. (1997). El genero Inga en el Ecuador, Morfologia, Distribucion Y Usos. pp 177. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reynel, C. & Pennington, T.D. (1997) El genero Inga en el Peru, Morfologia, Distribucion y Usos. pp 227. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reynel, C., Pennington, T.D., Pennington, R.T., Flores, C. & Daza, A. (2003). Arboles Utiles de la Amazonia Peruana y sus Usos. pp 509 (2003) Darwin Initiative & ICRAF. Zamora N. & Pennington T.D. (2001). Guabas y Cuajiniquiles de Costa Rica (Inga spp). pp 195. INBIO & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Forests

Major group affiliation: Farmers and Small Forest Landowners
Affiliation with other organizations: University of Cambridge UK Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew UK Universidad de Costa Rica Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras
Affiliation with UN bodies: UNFF Invited to speak at the Inaugural Meeting UN Year-of-the-Forest. New York. Jan/Feb 2011
Publications: SELECTED REFS. : INGA FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Bayliss-Smith, T.P. 1982. The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. Cambridge. CUP. Bayliss-Smith, T.P. and Feachem, R. (eds). 1977. Subsistence and Survival. London. Academic Press. Bayliss-Smith, T.P. and Hviding, E. 2000. Islands of Rainforest. Agroforestry, logging and eco-tourism in Solomon Islands. SOAS studies in Development Geography. Ashgate. England. Hands, M. R. 2004. Invited Co-author : El uso de Inga en Cultivo en Callejones; una alternativa sostenible comprobada a la agricultura migratoria en el Bosque Lluvioso. In : Cordero, J. and Boshier, D. H., (eds.) : Árboles de Centroamérica (Trees of Central America): Un Manual para Extensionistas. Oxford Forestry Institute (OFI) / CATIE. Oxford. UK. Hands, M. R. June 2002. Alley-Cropping as a Sustainable Alternative to Shifting Cultivation. Final Report. Project HND / B7-6201 / IB / 97 / 0533(08). Tropical Forests Budgetary Line. Commission of the European Communities. DG I. Brussels. Department of Geography. University of Cambridge. England. Hands, M. R. 1998. Invited chapter : The uses of Inga in the acid soils of the Rainforest zone : Alley-cropping Sustainability and Soil-regeneration. In : Pennington, T.D. and Fernandes, E.C.M. (eds.) The Genus Inga : Utilization. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. England. Hands, M. R., Harrison, A.F. and Bayliss-Smith, T. P. 1995. Invited chapter : Phosphorus Dynamics in Slash-and-Burn and Alley-cropping Systems of the Humid Tropics. In : Tiessen, H. (ed) Phosphorus in the Global Environment. SCOPE; UNEP sp. Publication. John Wiley. Hands, M. R., Bayliss-Smith, T. P. and Bache, B.W. 1993. Experimental Alley-cropping systems in Lowland Tropical Rain-forest sites in Costa Rica : I; Biomass production. Report to the Commission of the European Communities, DG XII. Science and Technology for Development. Brussels. Department of Geography. University of Cambridge. England. Hands, M. R. June 2007. The Cambridge Inga Projects : Continuing Projects since 2002. Report to the John Kyle Stone Trust on the visit of Mike Hands to the projects in May 2007. Penhale. Lostwithiel. Cornwall. UK. Pennington, T.D. and Sarukhan, J. 1968. Árboles Tropicales de México. Ediciones Científicas Universitarias. Serie Texto Científico Universitario. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México. Pennington, T.D. (1997). The genus Inga: Botany. pp 844. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Pennington, T. D., Reynel, C. and Daza, A. 2004. Trees of Peru. An Illustrated Guide. David Hunt. Sherborne. Dorset. England. Pennington, T.D. and Fernandes, E.C.M. (eds.) 1998. The Genus Inga : Utilization. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. England. Pennington, T.D. & Revelo, N. (1997). El genero Inga en el Ecuador, Morfologia, Distribucion Y Usos. pp 177. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reynel, C. & Pennington, T.D. (1997) El genero Inga en el Peru, Morfologia, Distribucion y Usos. pp 227. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reynel, C., Pennington, T.D., Pennington, R.T., Flores, C. & Daza, A. (2003). Arboles Utiles de la Amazonia Peruana y sus Usos. pp 509 (2003) Darwin Initiative & ICRAF. Zamora N. & Pennington T.D. (2001). Guabas y Cuajiniquiles de Costa Rica (Inga spp). pp 195. INBIO & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Statements or documents submitted
to the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF):
see above. Spoke at session on Degraded Land
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