Since 2008, the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) has been financing climate and biodiversity projects in
developing and newly industrialising countries, as well as in countries in transition. The IKI is a key
element of Germany’s climate financing and the funding commitments in the framework of the Convention on
Biological Diversity. The Initiative places clear emphasis on climate change mitigation, adaption to the
impacts of climate change and the protection of biological diversity. These efforts provide various
co-benefits, particularly the improvement of living conditions in partner countries.
The IKI focuses on four areas: mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to the impacts of climate
change, conserving natural carbon sinks with a focus on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation (REDD+), as well as conserving biological diversity.
CIAT works in collaboration with hundreds of partners to help developing countries make farming more
competitive, profitable, and resilient through smarter, more sustainable natural resource management. We
help policymakers, scientists, and farmers respond to some of the most pressing challenges of our time,
including food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change, and environmental degradation.
Our global research contributes to several of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and cuts
across four key themes: big data, climate-smart agriculture, ecosystem action, and sustainable food systems.
Our mission: Reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human nutrition in the tropics through research aimed at
increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture.
PIK, the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields
of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. Researchers from the natural and social
sciences work together to generate interdisciplinary insights and to provide society with sound information
for decision making. The main methodologies are systems and scenarios analysis, modelling, computer
simulation, and data integration.
The Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), is a science and technology research institution
envisioned to achieve sustainable development for the Amazonian population, with an emphasis on the rural
side, and specialized in conservation and the correct use of natural resources in the Amazonian region. IIAP
carries out its activities in a decentralized manner, promoting the participation of institutions and
organized civil society.
The Center Foundation for Research in Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems (CIPAV) is a
nongovernmental organization with over 20 years of experience in the research, capacity building, and
outreach necessary to construct sustainable agricultural production systems. CIPAV seeks to contribute to
the sustainable development of the rural sector through investigation, management, development, and
dissemination of environmentally friendly and productive alternatives.
The National Agrarian University of La Molina, is an educational institution specialized in the formation of
professionals for the agricultural, silvicultural, livestock, fishing, food, and economics sectors. It is
one of the largest and most well-known universities in the field of agricultural research within South
America. For 30 years it has been linked to the development of sustainable agricultural systems,
establishing relationships with agricultural communities within the department of Loreto, Peru. The
university’s experience in the surveying of ecosystem services, as well as its ample knowledge about all
different types of agricultural systems, will be a great benefit to the project.
The University of the Amazons, is an institution of higher education with standing social accreditation,
renowned for and leader in the construction, appropriation, adaptation, implementation, and diffusion of
academic, scientific, and investigative processes, as well as the protection of the community.
The university has carried out research and knowledge sharing activities with agricultural producers of the
region for the past 15 years. This has allowed it to build strong relationships with farmers’ associations,
which both contributes to the achievement of project objectives and furthers the pursuit of sustainable
human development within the Amazonian region, the institutional vision of this academic entity.
The SINCHI Institute – an Amazonian scientific research institute, has over 15 years of experience in the
development and implementation of sustainable production systems based on biodiversity, as well as in the
establishment of sustainable productive landscapes in disrupted areas of the Northern Amazon, in addition to
the characterization and classification of rural production systems and the design of sustainability
indicators for these systems.
Ecosystem Services Research Theme Leader, Decision and
Policy Analysis Program. 14-year experience, core work on project formulation and implementation related to Payments
for Ecosystem Services schemes design, and environmental impacts.
Agronomic Engineer, Masters in Crop Physiology. Experience in
research within the Ecosystem Services group, in quantifying indicators of environmental impact such as the water
footprint and carbon footprint of agricultural systems.
His work is related to the development of sustainable
alternatives in production, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and the development of economic methods
for environmental management.
PhD in Biological Sciences, 20 years of scientific research
experience in the Colombian Amazonia in biodiversity and conservation, crop physiology, ecological physiology, plant
adaptations and stress, and productive landscapes and systems.
Experience in research, education, and extension work
in the management of tropical soils and the restoration of degraded soils with continuous crop systems, grasses, and
agroforestry.
Ecosystem Services Research Theme Leader, Decision and
Policy Analysis Program. 14-year experience, core work on project formulation and implementation related to Payments
for Ecosystem Services schemes design, and environmental impacts
Agronomic Engineer, Masters in Crop Physiology. Experience in research within
the Ecosystem Services group, in quantifying indicators of environmental impact such as the water footprint and
carbon footprint of agricultural systems.
Agricultural engineer with a Masters in
Geography. Expert in GIS planning, management, and database curating, and is in charge of the geo-analysis of
landscape level data.
Gisella Cruz
CIAT -
Participatory methods and socio-environmental analysis
Gisella Cruz
CIAT -
Participatory methods and socio-environmental analysis
Biologist and social
scientist, with experience in the study of rural communities’ knowledge, use, management, and valorization of
ecosystem services; as well as their importance for food security and well-being.
Erwan Norman
CIAT -
Participatory methods and political analysis
Erwan Norman
CIAT -
Participatory methods and political analysis
Ecologist with an MSc
in forest conservation – focus in politics and society – from Wageningen University. Currently is research
assistant, working in the social component of the project SAL.
Agricultural Engineer. Provides scientific support
in the understanding of the impacts of climate change over agro-ecosystems through the generation of high resolution
climate projections and the impact modeling.
Economist from the University of Valle with a
Masters in Economics from Icesi University. Currently works as a research assistant in CIAT for the Ecosystem
Services and Impact Evaluation teams.
Chrystian Sosa
CIAT -
Database, survey planning, and statistical analysis
Chrystian Sosa
CIAT -
Database, survey planning, and statistical analysis
Biologist with five years of
experience in bioinformatics (biodiversity) and data management. Is in charge of the implementation of socioeconomic
surveys in mobile devices and their management.
Louis Reymondin
CIAT -
Monitoring of changes in coverage and habitat (Terra-i system)
Louis Reymondin
CIAT -
Monitoring of changes in coverage and habitat (Terra-i system)
Post-doctoral fellow at CIAT, has 10+ years of experience coordinating the Terra-i project and researches
involving AI and data mining to better understand dynamics between human activities and the environment.
Paula Andrea Paz
CIAT -
Monitoring of changes in coverage and habitat (Terra-i system)
Paula Andrea Paz
CIAT -
Monitoring of changes in coverage and habitat (Terra-i system)
Experience in
the development of the web platform and display data of Terra-i project. Has knowledge of different programming
technologies for visualization of geospatial data and information in general.
Her research centers on the degradation of soil plus the
processes and indicators of its restoration, participatory design of sustainable alternative uses of soil, and
eco-efficient agro-ecosystems.
Professional with ten years of experience in soil sample taking in the field
and three years in implementing methodologies and interpretation of the physical analysis of soils.
Scientist with the Tropical Forages Program at CIAT with experience on
nitrogen and carbon cycling processes in tropical forage-based crop-tree-livestock systems. Also working on forage
quality and reduction of GHG.
Agricultural engineer, Scientist in the Tropical
Forages program, experience in germoplasm research for the restoration of degraded soils and for animal feed.
Ecologist and educator, proposes a theoretical and
practical vision of the functioning and management of tropical soils. Proposes a reorganization of agricultural
landscapes in order to optimally provide ecosystem services.
Gender Postdoctoral fellow. Research
interests in intra-household dynamics among agricultural households, particularly the analysis of gendered time
poverty and its consequences on household food security in Africa and Latin America.
PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida.
Postdoctoral researcher in CIAT and support for the integration of gender in the CGIAR Research Program on Forests,
Trees, and Agroforestry.
Works on research
communications and dissemination for the project SAL. Global experience in scientific research communications in
both Southeast Asia and Latin America.
His work is related to the development of sustainable
alternatives in production, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and the development of economic methods
for environmental management.
Experience in environmental regulation and planning, biodiversity
conservation and ecosystem services. Also in design and implementation of ‘Payment for Environmental Services’
schemes and the developmental of agroforestry and silvopastoral systems.
Mayerly Rivera
CIPAV -
Technology dissemination to ag. producers, participatory methods
Mayerly Rivera
CIPAV -
Technology dissemination to ag. producers, participatory methods
Medical
veterinary zootechnician from the University of the Amazon. Works as professional support in the processes of
reconverting livestock farming back to silvopastoral systems.
Agro-ecological engineer, Masters in
Agroforestry. Helping to create a methodology for sampling of soils, macro fauna and the surveying of (forest)
boundaries and coverage.
Agro-ecological engineer, Masters in Agroforestry. Helping
with the construction of tools such as surveys, participatory workshops, and socioeconomic indicators.
PhD in Biological Sciences, 20 years of scientific research
experience in the Colombian Amazonia in biodiversity and conservation, crop physiology, ecological physiology, plant
adaptations and stress, and productive landscapes and systems.
Doctorate from the University of Leeds. Research
experience in Amazonian forests, vegetation and carbon inventories, tree species determination, molecular data
processing, and populations phylogeography and genetics.
Experience in research, education,
and extension work in the management of tropical soils and the restoration of degraded soils with continuous crop
systems, grasses, and agroforestry.
Engineer in Renewable Natural Resources and Masters in Soils. Work
experience in the application of methodologies for the physical and chemical analysis of soils, the evaluation of
conservation projects, and the management of soils in agroforestry systems.
Experience in conducting research in
the fields of agriculture, food security, climate change, socioecological systems, ecosystem services, biodiversity,
and sustainability.
PhD student, Sustainable South America (SUSA).
Research Interests: Land surface processes, Land-atmosphere interaction, Regional climate, Geomorphology, Natural
hazards, Global climate change
Experienced in topics of
biodiversity conservation and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Her thesis consists of evaluating
exposure, vulnerability and ethno-entomological knowledge for the creation of adaptation strategies.
Chemist, Masters student in
Agroforestry. Responsible for the development of a standardization in methods of the chemical and biochemical
analysis of soils in eco-physiological laboratories.
Food engineer. Responsible for the
development of a standardization in methods of the chemical and biochemical analysis of soils in eco-physiological
laboratories.
Agroforestry
engineer, Masters student in sustainable production systems, development of a standardization in methods of the
chemical and biochemical analysis of soils in eco-physiological laboratories.
Agro-ecological
engineer, responsible for the production of organic fertilizers and involved in the determination of physical and
chemical soil properties.
