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"Guidelines for the transition towards regenerative food systems in Antioquia" (English translation) is an open-access document which provides technical inputs for designing public and corporate policies, and it is part of the Food and Land Use Coalition’s (FOLU) initiative to achieve sustainable food and land use systems that meet local and global goals in countries around the world. The booklet, co-authored by ELTI's Colombia Coordinator Zoraida Calle, was launched at the event titled ”Regeneration: The Path to Climate Resilience,” which took place in Medellín and was part of the Antioquia 2022 Climate Emergency International Convention.

This Indonesian-language pdf summarizes all of the PPTs that were used in the Training on the Management and Monitoring of HCV-HCS Area in Oil Palm Plantations, which was held in Sekadau, West Kalimantan, from August 10-11, 2022. The conservation of forest areas within oil palm plantations to safeguard and enhance their High Conservation Values (HCV) and High Carbon Stocks (HCS) is a key requirement for sustainability certification through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). In order to fulfill this requirement, oil palm plantations need to implement a management and monitoring system for the HCV-HCS sites. For many oil palm plantations, however, the knowledge and skills needed to set up such a system fall outside their area of expertise. This training, therefore, aims to introduce the concept and best practices of HCV- HCS management and monitoring to relevant oil palm plantation staff.

To commemorate the 24th anniversary of the establishment of Visayas State University’s Institute of Tropical Ecology and Environmental Management (ITEEM) (ELTI’s partner in the Philippines), the institute launched a book titled "The Role of Rainforestation in Forest Landscape Restoration and Conservation in the Island Municipality of Pilar, Camotes, Cebu." Rainforestation is a strategy for forest restoration and degraded land rehabilitation that focuses on the use of native tree species to deliver an array of economic and ecological goods and services. The book is co-authored by ELTI alumni and partners, Dr. Marlito Bande and Dr. Guiraldo Fernandez, Jr., and is the result of a three-year study on environmental management in the municipality of Pilar with support from Dr. David Neidel (World Agroforestry-ELTI), the local government unit of Pilar (when ELTI alumnus Eufracio Maratas, Jr. served as mayor), and Visayas State University.

Zoraida Calle (CIPAV-ELTI Colombia Coordinator) and Alicia Calle published an article in Spanish entitled, “Lessons Learned about Generational Exchange in the Colombian Sustainable Cattle Ranching Project (English translation),” for the open-access proceedings of the 11th International Silvopastoral Systems Conference held between November 3 and 5, 2021. The book contains the presentations between keynotes and those presented by the participants. The presentations are grouped into the following sections: 1) sustainable livestock, 2) strategies for adaptation, mitigation and resilience to climate change in the territories, 3) innovative livestock farmers in silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems, and 4) generational change in the field—silvopastoral heirs. The Colombian Sustainable Cattle Ranching Project promoted the transition to silvopastoral systems on an unprecedented scale in Latin America. Although generational exchange was not an explicit objective of this project, concern from the technical team and participating farmers about the lack of generational renewal, was a motivation to open an intergenerational dialogue through the workshops offered to silvopastoral heirs. This article summarizes some findings and recommendations from various extension agents and scientists from the project, demonstration farm owners, and silvopastoral heirs, to integrate intergenerational dialogue as an essential objective of sustainable livestock projects. The following general recommendations are discussed in detail: 1. make contributions of young people visible, 2. strengthen their capacities, 3. generate opportunities for youth through activities that complement livestock production, and 4. create opportunities for them through knowledge generation processes.