Seminar 1: Why an Interest in the Links between Natural Resources Management & Poverty?
Seminar 1 introduced the seminar series with a presentation by former USAID Assistant Administrator Emmy Simmons on definitions and links between poverty reduction and the effective management of natural resources in developing countries. She discussed emerging lessons from community-based natural resource management, and the role of gender in natural resource management and poverty reduction/prevention. Her presentation was followed by a panel of experts who spoke to various aspects of the linkages.
Jan Bojö from the World Bank linked poverty and natural resource management. Sara Scherr, Director of Ecosystem Services at Forest Trends, addressed the poverty-resource degradation cycle, and policies and strategies to provide protection to resources while improving the local economic base in developing countries. Andrew Warner of the Millennium Challenge Corporation looked at the natural resource “curse”—linking natural resources and economic development.
A discussion session followed that allowed participants the opportunity to raise issues and questions that have surfaced through USAID Office and Bureau policies and activities.
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