Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, November 1999

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Calls

- Calls for papers

- Calls for research papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sustainable rural livelihoods
The International Rural Sociological Association (IRSA), together with the Brazilian Society for Economy and Rural Sociology (SOBER), the Latin American Rural Sociological Association (ALASRU), and the Brazilian Sociological Society (SBS), announce the 10th World Congress for Rural Sociology. It will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 30 July to 5 August 2000. The conference will address a wide range of issues facing rural communities today. The overall theme is: Sustainable rural livelihoods: Building communities, protecting resources, fostering human development. Over 50 workshop topics have been devised and coordinators have been appointed. The following selection might be of interest to readers of the Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor:

Theme No. 1. Local knowledge
Coordinators: Alberto Arce, the Netherlands (alberto.arce@alg.asnw.wau.nl); Julia Guivant, Brazil (jguivant@cfh.ufsc.br)

3. Rural development and indigenous issues
Coordinators: Elspeth Young, Australia (elspeth.young@anu.edu.au); Alejandro Saavedra, Chile (asaavedr@uach.cl)

4. Rural communities and information technology
Coordinators: Ken Stevens, Canada (stevensk@morgan.ucs.mun.ca); Mariano Valderama, Peru (mariano@cepes.org.pe)

8. The construction of coherence and endogenous development
Coordinators: Gaston Remmers, the Netherlands (gaston1@dds.nl); Paul Engel, Chile (pengel@udec.cl)

9. Local organizations
Coordinators: Alex Koutsouris, Greece (alex@kar.forthnet.gr); Alicia Villafane, Argentina (alivilla@satlink.com)

10. Rural community development
Coordinators: Goran Djurfeldt, Sweden (goran.djurfeldt@soc.lu.se); Carlos Amtmann, Chile (camtmann@valdivia.uca.uach.cl)

15. Promoting participation in rural development
Coordinators: Jan Flora, USA (jflora@iastate.edu); Sergio Gomez, Chile (gyg@reuna.cl)

32. Issues in agricultural extension
Coordinators: Shankar Chamala, Australia (s.chamala@mailbox.uq.edu.au); Edilberto Niño, Mexico (alasru@colpos.colpos.mx)

For a full list of workshops (thematic groups) and coordinators, please check the IRSA website at http://www.ag.auburn.edu/irsa/ ABSTRACTS are due 31 January 2000 and must be submitted in English, irrespective of the language in which the full paper will be presented. Abstracts must contain the title, the name and institution of the author(s), keywords to describe the paper, and an indication of which workshop (thematic group) it should be allocated to. Abstracts should be written in font Times New Roman 12, double-spaced, and be no more than 20 lines of text (about 250 words). They will need to be sent via the Internet--either as an e-mail message or an attachment (PC only and no viruses please!), or on diskette by conventional air-mail. Abstracts can also be sent as hard copy, but please, no faxed copies. A template for Abstracts will be prepared and placed on the website shortly. Please use this template for the preparation of your abstract. A CD-ROM of submitted conference papers will be prepared for distribution at the Congress, but participation in this is optional. Authors can choose not to have their work included if they prefer. In order to be published on the CD-ROM, the complete paper must be submitted by 30 April 2000 in the required format: double-spaced Times New Roman 12. Papers should be no longer than 15 pages. They can be in any one of the official conference languages: English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. Please check the website prior to submitting the paper for the most up-to-date information on rules for submission of papers. Please submit abstracts and papers to: Congrex do Brasil, IRSA World Congress of Rural Sociology, Av. Presidente Wilson 164, 9 andar, 20030-020 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil. E-mail: IRSA@congrex.com.br

FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

Ethnoforestry
Ethnoforestry can be defined as local communities’ continual, customary practice of creating, conserving, managing and using forest resources. An ethnoforestry practice is thus specific to a given area and appropriate to a specific environment. It may be possible to take up lessons based on experience elsewhere and adapt them to suit local forestry needs, but over time an external practice always develops into a local variety. The International Network on Ethnoforestry (INEF) is a new network working to promote the integration of indigenous knowledge on forest management into formal forestry practices. (See Networks, international organizations, p...) INEF’s efforts are supported by two organizations: the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) and Asia Forest Network (headquarters, University of California). In order to disseminate information about operational ethnoforestry practices, INEF and its partner organizations are planning to publish a book describing the current state of the art in ethnoforestry. The book will bring together information from all the countries and cultures where ethnoforestry is represented. Contributions are invited. We welcome reports of research on the following topics pertaining to forestry: