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Kate Schreckenberg’s main areas of research have been on the conservation-through-use of trees on farms, how to increase benefits for farmers from indigenous fruit trees, the development potential of non-timber forest products, participatory inventory and biodiversity conservation, and international tropical forest policy. Kate is also editor of the Rural Development Forestry Network.
Kate studied botany and forestry. Following a year developing participatory land-use plans in Burkina Faso, she worked with UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Programme on the sustainable management of tropical forests. A PhD on the use of non-timber forest products in Benin was combined with teaching social forestry at various levels.
BA Botany, MSc (Forestry and its Relation to Land Use), PhD (Geography). Kate is fluent in French and German and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
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The implications of carbon financing for pro-poor community forestry ODI Forestry Briefing 14 |
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| The emergence of new financing mechanisms associated with the rise of carbon markets brings potential for increased investment in forestry. This paper explores the implications of these mechanisms for community forestry and suggests ways in which such finance may contribute to the pro-poor outcomes of community forestry. The paper also provides an opportunity for those working on the design of carbon financing mechanisms to draw on the experience of community forestry in structuring appropriate benefit systems. The main focus of the discussion is on 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation'(REDD). | ||
| Cecilia Luttrell, Kate Schreckenberg and Leo Peskett | December 2007 | |
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Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products: What Determines Success? ODI Forestry Briefing 10 |
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| Commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as an approach to rural development in tropical forest areas. However, donor investments in the development of NTFP resources have often failed to deliver the expected benefits in terms of poverty alleviation and improved conservation of natural resources. This briefing paper discusses different conceptions of what constitutes successful commercialisation and examines the key factors that influence the outcome of NTFP commercialisation initiatives. | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg, Elaine Marshall, Adrian Newton, Dirk Willem te Velde, Jonathan Rushton, Fabrice Edouard | March 2006 | |
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Developmental Impacts of Verification Systems in the Forest Sector VERIFOR Briefing Paper 3 |
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| Briefing Paper from the VERIFOR Project: Institutional Options for Forest Verification. | ||
| Neil Bird and Kate Schreckenberg | 2006 | |
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Negotiating Partnerships for Governance Reform: the Draft Code of Conduct for Forest Sector Development Cooperation Forestry Briefing 2 |
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| This paper reviews experience with the 2001 Draft Code of Conduct for Forest Sector Development Cooperation. The Code aims to help donors engage more effectively with the institutional and policy contexts affecting forests, and to shift the governance agenda from conditionality to positive incentives for change. | ||
| Adrian Wells, Kate Schreckenberg, Tomi Tuomasjukka, Bernd-Markus Liss, Andy Roby and Tapani Oksanen | July 2002 | |
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Forestry as an Entry Point for Governance Reform ODI Forestry Briefing 1 |
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| Tropical forestry provides a useful entry point for governance programmes. The very factors which make it a challenging sector for development assistance commend it also as a crucible for governance reform: its inclusive focus, linking the global to the national and local; the high levels of income and other benefits which it generates; its local fiscal base; the centrality of issues of tenure and collective rights; and its importance in rural livelihoods, all reinforce the linkages between good governance, public accountability and poverty alleviation. Ensuring that the forest sector fulfils this brief is a major challenge not just to host country governments but also to the donor community. | ||
| David Brown, Gill Shepherd, Kate Schreckenberg and Adrian Wells | April 2002 | |
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ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 75 |
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| Major investments have been made in recent decades in the development of community forestry. Drawing on two contrasting cases - Nepal (multiple purpose, relatively low value upland forests) and Cameroon (humid lowland forests of high commercial value) - this paper argues that policy development has involved many unknowns, necessitating a learning process orientation and considerable flexibility. This involves substantial cost, but the benefits may be significant, as regards both rural livelihoods and the proper husbandry of hitherto under-managed resources. | ||
| David Brown, Kate Schreckenberg, Yam Malla and Oliver Springate-Baginski | 2002 | |
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Shifting Cultivators as agents of deforestation: assessing the evidence ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 29 |
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| Increasing concern on two fronts - the international environmental movement and growing interest in biodiversity conservation - has brought shifting cultivation back into the foreground of rural development forestry. Opinions remain divided as to the part that shifting cultivation plays in accounting for the high levels of deforestation in the tropics. While it is viewed in some quarters as a major cause of tropical deforestation, recent research suggests that the reality is often more complex, and that explanations for deforestation must be sought in a variety of factors, many of which should be placed at the door of governments and international capital rather than of shifting cultivators. | ||
| David Brown and Kate Schreckenberg | 1998 | |
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Verification in the Forest Sector of British Columbia, Canada VERIFOR Country Case Study 2 |
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| This case study examines the role of the Forest Practices Board, an independent public watchdog in the forest sector of British Columbia. It is an output of the VERIFOR Project: Institutional Options for Forest Verification | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg | June 2006 | |
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Human Rights and Poverty Reduction. Public goods and private rights: The illegal logging debate and the rights of the poor Rights in Action Background Paper |
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| Public goods and private rights: The illegal logging debate and the rights of the poor | ||
| David Brown, Adrian Wells, Cecilia Luttrell and Neil Bird | March 2005 | |
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Commercialisation of Non-timber Forest Products – A Reality Check (draft) Article in Development Policy Review (buy) |
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| In this article we review and challenge the pervasive view that commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) can (easily) achieve ecosystem and species conservation as well as improving livelihoods. | ||
| Brian Belcher and Kate Schreckenberg | 2007 | |
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The participatory domestication of West African indigenous fruits Published Article |
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| Throughout the tropics there are indigenous tree species that produce locally important fruits and other non-timber forest products, that have the potential to be domesticated to provide economic and livelihood benefits to subsistence farmers | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg, Roger Leakey, Zac Tchoundjeu | 2003 | |
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| Commercialization of Non-timber Forest Products: Factors Influencing Success | ||
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(English Version) (Spanish Version)
Commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as an approach to rural development in tropical forest areas. However, donor investments in the development of NTFP resources have often failed to deliver the expected benefits in terms of poverty alleviation and improved conservation of natural resources. In order to ensure that NTFPs fulfil their potential contribution to sustainable development, it is important to understand the reasons for success and failure, and the conditions under which NTFP commercialization can make a positive contribution to the livelihoods of the poor. This publication presents the findings of the CEPFOR project (Commercialization of non-timber forest products in Mexico and Bolivia: factors influencing success), a multidisciplinary research initiative involving partners drawn from the UK, Mexico and Bolivia. The research team critically examined the factors influencing successful NTFP commercialization and tested and further developed theory relating to the commercialization of NTFPs and rural development. Socioeconomic and market research examined the impact of different NTFP commercialization networks (value chains) on poverty reduction, women’s livelihoods, natural resources and rights and access of the poor, in eight communities in Bolivia and 10 in Mexico. The structure and function of 16 NTFP value chains were analysed, enabling identification of the attributes that make a chain successful. Published by UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
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| Kate Schreckenberg, Elaine Marshall and A. C. Newton (editors) | 2006 | |
| European Tropical Forestry Sourcebook | ||
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A way out of poverty? A review of the impacts of PFM on livelihoods Keynote paper |
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| Over the last two decades the world has seen a wave of enthusiasm for participatory forest management (PFM), broadly defined as the involvement of local people in decision-making in some or all aspects of forest management. PFM has been implemented in many countries, often with significant donor support. While early interest in PFM centered on its ability to improve forest conservation, the current poverty reduction focus of the global development agenda has raised interest in the livelihood impact of PFM. | ||
| Cecilia Luttrell, Kate Scheckemberg, Pelin Zorlu and Catherine Moss | June 2007 | |
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Participatory Forest Management and Poverty Reduction: A Review of the Evidence. Bibliography Report |
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| The review uses a case study approach to understand the different forms of PFM that have been implemented around the world, and to evaluate how they have impacted on the social and economic aspects of the livelihoods of those who depend on forests. The report was prepared for the start-up workshop of the project: Action Research on Assessing and Enhancing the Impact of Participatory Forest Management on the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor | ||
| Cecilia Luttrell, Kate Schreckenberg, Liz Thassim and Catherine Moss | April 2005 | |
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Review of Methodologies for the Assessment of the Poverty Impact of Participatory Forest Management - Bibliography Report |
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| A report prepared for the start-up workshop of the project: Action Research on Assessing and Enhancing the Impact of Participatory Forest Management on the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor. | ||
| Cecilia Luttrell, Kate Schreckemberg, Liz Thassim and Catherine Moss |
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| Current projects | ||
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| VERIFOR: Institutional Options for Verifying Legality in the Forest Sector | ||
| VERIFOR is concerned with the policy, institutional and legal challenges around the issue of illegal logging. It seeks to help tropical producer countries verify that their timber has been legally harvested... | ||
| David Brown, Cecilia Luttrell, Adrian Wells, Neil Bird, Kate Schreckenberg | February 2005 - January 2009 | |
| Action Research on Poverty Impacts of Participatory Forest Management (ARPIP) | ||
| The overall objective of the proposed action research is to make participatory forest management (PFM) approaches more "pro-poor". PFM is taken to include community forestry, joint forest management, co-management and community-based forest management. | ||
| Cecilia Luttrell and Kate Schreckemberg | April 2005 - Ongoing | |
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| Review of the Miombo community land use and carbon management pilot project | ||
| The aim of the pilot project 'Miombo community land use and carbon management' (financed by the EC) is to develop forestry and land use practices that promote sustainable rural livelihoods in participation with rural communities in a way that raises living standards and to asses the potential of these activities to generate verifiable carbon emission reductions. | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg and Leo Peskett | March 2008 - May 2008 | |
| Appropriate ownership models for natural product-based small and medium-sized enterprises in Namibia | ||
| The objective of this consultancy was to present a critical review of options of ownership models for natural product-based SMEs based on an assessment of the situation in Namibia and with reference to relevant international experiences. | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg | 2003 | |
| Strategic Researchable Constraints in Participatory Forest Management | ||
| Participatory forest management (PFM) has been an important theme for DFID technical assistance for the last 15 years, but the subject of relatively little focused research. | ||
| Cecilia Luttrell and Kate Schrekenberg | 2001 - 2002 | |
| Sustainable Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products in Highland and Lowland Forest in Mexico and Bolivia | ||
| The value of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as an important tool in addressing poverty of marginalised forest-dependent communities has long been acknowledged. | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg | November 2000 - October 2003 | |
| Conservation through use of the tree species diversity in fragmented Mesoamerican dry forest | ||
| The objective of this project was the evaluation of the potential for conservation of tree species diversity through use within the farm-forest landscape in the tropical dry forest zone of Mesoamerica (specifically southern Honduras and the Oaxaca coast, Mexico) | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg and Micheal Richards | 1997-2003 | |
| To investigate the opportunities and constraints faced by resource-poor farmers in the humid lowlands of West Africa (HULWA) in investing in the planting and improvement of indigenous trees for income generation | ||
| The project aims to test the proposition that substantial opportunities exist in West Africa for improving rural livelihoods by cultivating indigenous fruit trees on-farm. | ||
| Kate Schreckenberg | December 1998-December 2002 | |
| A Programme of EU Tropical Forestry Information Consolidation, Networking and Dissemination | ||
| This project was concerned with the tropical forestry activities of the EU Member States | ||
| David Brown, Gill Shepherd and Kate Schreckenberg | 2000 | |