COMDEKS

Divers from the “Ghost Net Hunters”, COMDEKS grantees in Turkey, free a Dusky Grouper from a net in Gökova Bay off the Datça-Bozburun peninsula. The Ghost Net Hunters Project is one of nine COMDEKS funded projects working to enhance the resilience of the Datça-Bozburun peninsula, the target socio-ecological production landscape/seascape in Turkey. The Ghost Net … Continue reading →

(Click photo to download a PDF of the brochure) COMDEKS India with the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) has produced a brochure presenting the vision and goals of the COMDEKS Project in within Uttarakhand State, the target landscape in India. The brochure outlines the focus and expected outcomes for community based projects within the landscape … Continue reading →

(Click photo to download a larger PDF of the poster) As part of the community consultation process and mapping exercise of the COMDEKS socio-ecological production landscape, COMDEKS Turkey has produced a poster of the Datça-Bozburun Peninsula, a key biodiversity area in the Muğla province of Southwest Turkey and the target landscape for the COMDEKS Programme … Continue reading →

In launching this year’s World Environment Day (WED 2013),  June 5, the GEF Small Grants Programme in Ghana organized a workshop for the Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative Project (COMDEKS) grantees; and a small celebration for the beneficiary communities in the Weto Range in the Volta Region. The event was attended … Continue reading →

The Government of Japan and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched the second phase of a major biodiversity and sustainable development partnership, and announced new projects in ten countries. Communities in Bhutan, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Mongolia, Namibia, and Niger will join the Community Development and Knowledge Management for the … Continue reading →

UNU-IAS Public Symposium – Indicators for Resilience in SEPLs Contributed by Robert Blasiak and Dr. Kaoru Ichikawa, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies April 30, 2013 Indicators for Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes (SEPLs) 22 April 2013, UNU-IAS Public Symposium Yokohama, Japan Photo: UNU-IAS (http://bit.ly/YiOgea) In an appropriate coincidence, experts and audience members gathered on … Continue reading →

COMDEKS Project featured at CBD COP 11 IPSI Side Event On  11 October 2012, at the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), organized by the CBD Secretariat in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), India; the UNDP implemented COMDEKS was prominently featured at a side event on “Achievements … Continue reading →

On 18 June 2012, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Government of Japan held a Side Event on “the Satoyama Initiative and the Green Economy”. The Side Event was organized by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the IPSI Secretariat (UNU-IAS), in partnership with … Continue reading →

The latest version of the booklet Indicators for Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes, developed by our colleagues in UNU-IAS, Satoyama Initiative and Bioversity International, is now available here. This project is led by the United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies and Bioversity International as a Collaborative Activity under the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI). This publication … Continue reading →

In September 24-26, 2011, an Inception Workshop was held in Accra, Ghana to launch the COMDEKS project with participants from eight of the eleven participarting countries, with UNU-IAS representing the ISPI collaborative activity partners. The workshop was opened by Prof. Alfred Oteng Yeboah, the Chair of the IPSI Steering Committee and a member of the … Continue reading →