The 11th FLARE Annual Meeting will be held October 23-27, 2025 in Lima, Peru. This year’s meeting will convene under the theme of forests and transformative change and will examine and assess the role of forests and those who rely on them for achieving transformative change.
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CIFOR-ICRAF agenda
Oral presentations: Collaborative conservation for transformative change
Presentations:
- Nurturing Forest Stewardship with Agroecology: Motivations, Capacities, and Contexts for Transformative Change
Valentina Robiglio, Senior Land Use System Specialist, CIFOR-ICRAF. - Raising the ambition for transformative change: A practical method based on gender transformative approaches to women’s land and resource rights
Anne Larson, Principal Scientist and Theme Leader, Governance, Equity and Wellbeing, CIFOR-ICRAF
Presenters
Oral presentations: Community-based forests
Presentation:
- Key challenges, opportunities, and leverage points for integrated landscape approaches in the tropics
James Reed, Scientist, Governance, Equity, and Well-being, CIFOR-ICRAF
Chair
Natalia Cisneros
Senior Research Associate, CIFOR-ICRAF
Presenter
James Reed
Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF
Oral presentations: Forest-community relationships
Presentation:
- “We Live with the Forest”: Rethinking Community–Conservation Relationships in the Andean-Amazonian Region
Natalia Cisneros, Senior Research Associate, CIFOR-ICRAF
Chair
Anne Larson
Principal Scientist and Theme Leader, Governance, Equity and Wellbeing, CIFOR-ICRAF
Presenter
Natalia Cisneros
Senior Research Associate, CIFOR-ICRAF
Plenary: Conservation, Coexistence and the future of the Andes Amazon
Panelists
Marco Arenas
Director of the General Directorate of Biological Diversity, MINAM
Gabriel Quijandría
Regional Director for South America, IUCN
Lucia Ruiz
Former Minister of Environment and former Vice Minister of Strategic Management of Natural Resources (UTEC-ASRI)
Jorge Luiz López Dóriga
Global Director of Sustainability of the AJE Group
Moderator
Panel: Effectiveness of rights-based conservation in the Amazon
Panelists
Rocío Vasquez
Senior Research Associate in Governance & Evidence-based Engagement, CIFOR-ICRAF
Silvana Baldovino
Program Director, SPDA
Mónica Solís
ASOM
Felipe Borman
COFAN
Luis Felipe Torres
Regional Coordinator for Latin America, The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility
Moderator
Panel: Agrarian frontiers
Presentation
- Development Pathways in Forest Frontiers: Contextual Changes and Local Responses of Small-Scale Farmers in the Peruvian Amazon
Martin Reyes, Senior Research Associate, CIFOR-ICRAF
Presenter
Martin Reyes
Senior Research Associate, CIFOR-ICRAF
Oral presentations: Forest governance and institutions
Presentation:
- Facilitating collaboration for iterative learning and adaptation in Integrated Landscape Management
Peter Cronkleton, Senior scientist, Governance, Equity and Wellbeing, CIFOR-ICRAF
Presenter
Peter Cronkleton
Senior Scientist and Peru Country Coordinator, CIFOR-ICRAF
Innovative Session: Reframing Natural Resource Governance: From Ecosystem Impacts to Systemic Human Change
Panelists
Khalil Walji
Scientist, Coordinator Landscapes for our Future & Manager of the Target 2 – Ecosystem Restoration Pilots
Natalia Cisneros
Senior Research Associate, CIFOR-ICRAF
Chair
Khalil Walji
Scientist, Coordinator Landscapes for our Future & Manager of the Target 2 – Ecosystem Restoration Pilots
