FRP-PNG Working Group: Informing EU-policy

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THE FUTURE OF RAINFOREST PEOPLES

— Papua New Guinea Working Group —

(FRP—PNG)

Informing EU policy
on human aspects of conservation, sustainable development and tropical forestry

The APFT/ FRP programme is funded through the Tropical Forests budget line of DGVIII, the section of the European Commission concerned with international development and co-operation in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

A primary objective of the programme is to ensure that people who live in forest areas and their livelihoods, rights and concerns are represented and respected in conservation and sustainable development projects.

One of the ways this objective is fulfilled is by generating written information in a variety of formats:
- Biannual Reports to the European Commission
- Mission Reports
- Briefing Notes
- Working Papers
- Press Releases
- Scientific Papers
- Dissertations and theses
- Publications and manuscripts on the Internet.
The APFT / FRP Database and the Final Report to the European Commission are key products of the research programme, as requested in the Terms of Reference.

There is no substitute for personal contact and communication in the development process.

Members of the FRP-PNG Working Group work in rural forest areas with local people. They can offer a valuable up-to-date perspective from the field where development and conservation budgets are targeted. Interest and expertise of some of the members of the FRP-PNG Working Group are summarised in the table below. Please do not hesitate to contact us. (But please consider that we might be away for longer periods of fieldwork at one time or the other)

Name and Email address	Themes (experience and interests)
Dr. Christin Kocher Schmid C.Kocher@ukc.ac.uk	human use of plants and ethnobotany perceptions of the future and millennarianism logging — causes, perceptions, impact material culture
Stefanie Klappa ask2@ukc.ac.uk	plant use and local environmental knowledge tree cultivation (syn. 'arboriculture', 'agroforestry') logging — causes, perceptions, impact images of development and millennarian ideology
David Ellis dmellis@treewoods.u-net.com	subsistence in forest areas. perceptions of development and change. ICAD (Integrated Conservation and Development) and portable sawmilling. representations of people who live in forest areas.

There is no substitute for personal contact and communication in the development process.

Members of the FRP-PNG Working Group communicate with:

The European Union Delegation to Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby.
Directorate General VIII in the European Commission, Thematic and Regional Functionaries.

View our work on the internet by site or region and by theme.

Visit the DGVIII home page.

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