WEBINAR / AGROFORESTRY, PRESENT CASE, AND ROLE OF HEIs (HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS)*
SESSION 1, 11 NOVEMBER 2025, 13:00-16:30, Semarang Time/Western Indonesia Time
SESSION 2, 12 NOVEMBER 2025, 09.00-14:00, Semarang Time/Western Indonesia Time
SESSION 3, 12 NOVEMBER 2025, 15:00-18:00, Semarang Time/Western Indonesia Time
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WEBINAR / AGROFORESTRY, PRESENT CASE AND ROLE OF HEIs (HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS)*
Concept
note/ REV45/ DRAFT 1 November 2025[1]
I.
What,
when, co-hosts
Agriculture University in Krakow (URK),
Universidad de Sevilla, Apintlaw and FISIP UNILA are also affiliated with the
collaboration of HARVEST (Higher Education Leadership on Agricultural and Food
Rights for Environmental Sustainability)
II. Conceptual framework
The
seminar would hope to present insights and evaluations on agroforestry. The
seminar will take a point of view Higher Education Institutions towards the
present and next trajectory of agroforestry.
Beyond
the promise and good practice of agro-gorestry, there lies challenges ahead.
Agroforestry exposed a competition among actors willing to conserve, but also
to exploite natural resources. Agroforestry was and has been forced to play a
role as a referee responding to this competition. Agroforestry carries ethical
values where it aims to set a very long sustenance of present and future well being of population
(inter-generational equity). Still, those ethical values are not always well
presented to different actors. There still need a deep understanding on the
context of sustainability towards natural ecosystem and communities pillaring
it.
For HEIs
(Higher Education Institutions), a case for transdisciplinary framework argued
by researchers on the subject of agroforestry. The researchers keep on
undertaking field work to develop mapping and tracking for the wider practices
of agroforestry. At the same time, researchers have been in dialogue with
local/traditional communities living with traditional knowledge which, this far,
making forestry a nature for all. In Asia, the role of communities as a “check”
against singular approach of HEIs. Communities posed a case for
transdisciplinary approach towards natural ecosystem.
Differences
between natural ecosystem asked an adaptive, creative approaches when
agroforestry is to be applied. Point in case, for example, a differences
between natural ecosystem of coastal area and deep-mountain area asked a very
deep understanding towards them, and asked an adequate scientific approach towards
both natural ecosystems. The coastal natural ecosystem, for example, are
encroached by pollutions from afar, very quickly. An approach of agroforestry,
then, presumably, need to compensate the quick impact. Somehow, somewhat, this
approach need to be similar in pace, or even quicker (in Climate change’s lingo
is known as “mitigation”).
Communities
and agricultural workers (often seasonal), rural women made most carer of
the agroforestry. They manage the agroforestry as to create welfare. Their situation
on agroforestry depend on the situation of biodiversity, and, at the same time,
the economic chain that they tried to relate to.
LPPM
Soegijapranata Catholic University and Puslitbang Sagu, Universitas Hasanuddin,
most recently, contributed to the call of the UN High Commissioner on Human
Rights on “Human Rights and Biodiversity”.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-inputs-biodiversity-and-human-rights
FISIP
(Faculty of Social and Political Science) Universitas Lampung, through its
HARVEST team, undertakes collaboration with organic breeder and practitioners
in Lampung Greater area, tracking practices on Agroforestry.
HEI has
much to do about all of those.
Invited
points of view for the seminar:
1.
Updated view on the competition or
collaboration among actors in agroforestry
2.
Data and knowledge management in
agroforestry
3.
Transdisciplinary approach for agroforestry
4.
Agroforestry with sustainable food system
5. Natural science and technology in
agroforestry
6. Rural communities in agroforestry
7. Sectors of agroforestry and its workers
III. Planned for speakers/discussant*
DAY 1/PART 1, 11 November 2025, Tuesday, 13:00-16.30
Proceeding will be in English
Opening greetings
Head,
LPPM Soegijapranata Catholic University
Dr.
Yustina Trihoni Nalesti Dewi
Welcome from Rector of the Soegijapranata Catholic University
Robertus Setiawan Aji N, S.T., MComIT., Ph.D
Welcome from Dean FISIP UNILA
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, UN Human Rights Council Geneva
4. Kanchana Di-ut
Collaborator, researcher & translator with rural women in North Thailand
Rural Women and agroforestry in Northern Thailand
DAY 2/ PART 2, 12 November 2025, Wednesday,
09.00-14.00 Western Indonesia Time
Proceeding will be in Bahasa Indonesia
Greetings
Head,
LPPM Soegijapranata Catholic University
7. Puslitbang Sagu (Center for Research and Development of Sagu)
Hasanuddin University
Prof. Dr. Agnes Rampisela, Kepala, Puslitbang Sagu
“Agroforestry of Sagu”
8. LPPM (Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat/ Institute for Research and Social Service), Soegijapranata Catholic University
DR. Bernadeta Soedarini
DR. Alberta Rika Pratiwi
Agroforestry di Jawa Tengah: kasus dan praktek yang baik
9. Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Lampung (UNILA)
Fuad Abdulgani, S.Sos, MA, lecturer, Prodi Sosiologi
Agrogorestry sagu
10. Universitas Katolik Parahyangan/Parahyangan Catholic University (UNPAR)
Dr. Rulyusa Pratikto, Ketua Program, Magister Studi Pembangunan
Pembangunan desa dan agroforestry
Facilitator
Eko Cahyono, M.Si.
Sajogyo Institute
DAY 2/ PART 3, 12 November 2025, Wednesday,
15:00-18:30 Western Indonesia time/
Special Message
Prof.
Miguel Angel Martin Lopez, Universidad de Sevilla
Special
Message
Prof.
Andrzej Sechman
Vice
Rector for Cooperation
Prof. Surichai Wun’gaeo
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Political Science
Chulalongkorn University
11. Agriculture University in Krakow, HARVEST,
Prof. Andrzej Sechman, Vice Rector for Cooperation
Prof. Ewa Błońska, Vice Rector for General Affairs (forestry expert)
Prof. Jaroslaw Socha, Dean, Faculty of Forestry
Prof. Tomasz Zaleski, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Economics
Role of higher education in the agroforestry
12. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin in Collaboration with Center for Tropical Research at the Agriculture University in Krakow.
Discussion will be presented by. Prof. Juan Carlos Loaiza Usuga and Prof. Walter Osorio.
13. Vietnam National University of Forestry (VNUF), HARVEST
DR. Do Thi Huong
Agroforestry in Vietnam, and role of women
14. DR. Natalia Pacheco
Scholar, The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment
Human Rights and Environment: present discussion, and input to agroforestry
15. Hon. Arsénio Pereira da Silva
Secretary of State for Cooperatives
Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Cooperative and agroforestry in Timor-Leste
16. Working paper presentation: Center for Decentralisation and Local Governance (PUSKOD), affiliated with Faculty of Law, Universitas Kristen Indonesia
agroforestry in the East of
Indonesia
Facilitator
Closing
Remarks, Soegijapranata Catholic University
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Institutions/entities
1.
Apintlaw (Associated Program for
International Law)
Through its executive coordinator, Henry Thomas Simarmata, Apintlaw has been very active in the field of jurisprudential research and negotiation especially in the UN Human Rights Council (including on the co-leading negotiation on the UNDROP/United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants from beginning in 2008 to adoption of the UNDROP in UN Human Rights Council Geneva and UNGA New York in 2018), and through mechanism of ASEAN. He was part of the process on initiating what now become network of HARVEST-ERASMUS with substantive participation of the HEIs (Higher Education Institutions). Apintlaw is founding researcher of the SNCG, Sea Nomads Contact Group. He is also 2014 Visiting Scholar of Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Apintlaw website is https://apintlaw.info
Framework of recognition and protection of
rural communities in Agroforestry
2.
Soegijapranata Catholic University (SCU)
The SCU is a catholic university, based in
Semarang, Central Java, and active in development of body of knowledge on
ethno-botany, ethno-maritime on Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Through the its
Research Center (Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat/Institute of
Research and Community Service), the SCU promotes multidisciplinary works with
scientist, jurists, communities, and policymakers. This includes works in the
east of Indonesia and in agroforestry. The Research Center is coordinated by
Dr. Yustina Trihoni Nalesti Dewi. Through this coordination, the SCU research
center promote research on agroforestry, and with Apintlaw, promote the
knowledge managed in HARVEST-ERASMUS.
The SCU Research Center webiste is:
3.
Sagu Center/Center of of Research and
Development (Pusat Litbang Sagu), Hasanuddin University, based in Makassar, the
province of South Sulawesi
The Sagu Center, has been in the leadership
of Professor Agnes Rampisela, a seasoned scientits on sago and agroforestry.
Prof. Rampisela works have been exemplary in bringing into prominence on native
biodiversity co-management and community-based management especially in sago.
Against all oods, Prof. Rampisela brought worldwide attention to Indonesian
sagu with substantive collaboration of the center with Japan-based entiities.
Hasanuddin University is state-statuted university and very prominent in its work
especially in the east of Indonesia.
Hasanuddin University’s website is: https://www.unhas.ac.id/
The center website is:
Academic works of Professor Agnes
Rampisela:
4.
Faculty of Social and Political Science,
Universitas Lampung (FISIP UNILA)
The Faculty of Social and Political Science
(FISIP) of Universitas Lampung, through its HARVEST-ERASMUS team, has been
active in collaboration betweenn entities, in Lampung, in Indonesia-wide, and
in international fora, in the field of sustainable food system. Universitas
Lampung (UNILA) is a state-statuted university based in Bandar Lampung, the
province of Lampung, of the southernmost of Sumatera. The FISIP has been in
collaboration with communities working in agroforestry in southern part of
Sumatera.
The HARVEST team member in the FISIP UNILA
are:
Dr. Susana Indriyati Caturiani, S. IP., M.
Si., Kepala, Jurusan Administrasi Negara/Public Administration (Head of Program of Public Administration)
UNILA’s website is: https://www.unila.ac.id/
5.
Hon. Genevieve Savigny, UN Special
Procedure, UN Working Group on the Implementation of UNDROP (United Nations
Declaration on Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas), UN
Human Rights Council, Geneva
Honorable Genevieve Savigny is the present
holder of the special procedure on UNDROP. In the mandate, she works especially
on the Europe and North America region on the subject of UNDROP. She has also
long experience working in Europe and Africa in the organisation of Confederation
Paysanne, a famous agrarian and rural communities movement of France and of La
Via Campesina.
Her profile is in
6.
Hon. Arsénio Pereira da Silva
7.
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Universidad de Sevilla/University of
Seville is a Sevilla-based public university. At present, through the
leadership of Professor Miguel Angel Martin Lopez, the University is
coordinating the run of HARVEST-ERASMUS in Europe and in Southeast Asia, and with
collaboration with Africa-based entities.
The website of University with HARVEST work
is
The profile of Prof. Miguel Angel Martin
Lopez
8.
Professor Koichi Ikegami. professor emeritus, Kindai
University, Osaka
Professor Koichi Ikegami has been
dedicating academic works on sustainable agri-food system and rural
communities. He was before the president of International Rural Sociology
Association (2016-2020). At present, Prof. Ikegami and Apintlaw is running a
research activity on family farming of Asia.
His
google scholar is “Koichi Ikegami”, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aomrSwgAAAAJ&hl=en
His profile in Irsa website is:
9.
Professor Surichai Wun’gaeo, Emeritus
Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
Ajarn Surichai has been very active in
various research on communities and natural resources. He was collaboration
with Apintlaw and Sea Nomads Contact Group in research on communities living in
ecosystem impacted by commercialisation of resources.
His profile is in: https://www.inter.chula.ac.th/futuresliteracy/prof-surichai-wungaeotask/
10.
Agriculture University in Krakow, Krakow,
Poland
The Agriculture University in Krakow (URK)
is a public university based in Krakow Poland. The URK has faculties of
agriculture and economics, forestry, animal science, environmental engineering
and geodesy, biotechnology and horticulture, production and power engineering,
food technology, vetenirary Medicine. The URK, in its HARVEST-ERASMUS, under
the coordination of Professor Andrzej Sechman, the vice rector for cooperation,
is running a collaboration with Europe-based and Southeast Asia-based HEIs on Agricultural
and Food Rights for Environmental Sustainability. Prof. Sechman will be
accompanied by Vice-Rector for General Affairs, Professor Ewa Błońska, an
expert herself on forestry, and by the deanship of the Faculty of Forestry led by Professor
Jaroslaw Socha and the deanship of the Faculty of Agriculture and Economics led by Professor
Tomasz Zaleski.
Profile of the vice-rectors of URK:
Profile of the faculties:
The University will also be co-joined by Prof. Juan Carlos Loaiza Usuga of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, which is in a collaboration with the Center for Tropical Research of the Agriculture University in Krakow. Prof. Usuga's profile can be found in:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan-Carlos-Loaiza-Usuga
11.
Vietnam National University of Forestry,
VNUF
The Vietnam National University of
Forestry, VNUF, is a Hanoi-based university, operating the role of higher
education institution especially in forestry, forest product processing,
natural resource management. Through its HARVEST-ERASMUS team, VNUF is in collaboration
with HEIs in Europe and Southeast Asia entities in the HARVEST platform.
DR. Do Thi Huong is lecturer and researcher on rural areas and environment in the VNUF, also dedicating her research on rural women.
Her works, among other, can be found here:
VNUF website is https://env.vnuf.edu.vn/
12.
Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture
(NIA), Cambodia
Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture
is a higher education institution which develop a long-term study and
collaboration in agricultural education. The NIA has 10 departments and manage
a participation of students from all parts of Cambodia. Dr. Phon Sovatna is the
dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology, and Agricultural Engineering of the NIA. The NIA is in collaboration with Europe-based and Southeast Asia-based
HEIs in the HARVEST platform.
Profile of NIA:
13. Catholic University of Timor Leste, Dili, Timor Leste
The Universidade Catolica Timorense Sao Joao Paulo II, or St. John Paul II Catholic University, or UCT is a catholic higher education institution based in Dili, Timor Leste. The UCT is under the leadership of Rector Rev. DR. Joel Casimiro Pinto, OFM. The UCT was founded in 2021, has 4 faculties: (1) Medical Sciences, (2) Social Sciences, (3) Education, Language and Arts, and (4) Agricultural Engineering. The UCT has a strong focus on agriculture, and is in collaboration with different universities in Asia and Europe.
DR. Shannon Viegas represented the UCT on the discussion on HEIs role in the research and in community collaboration in Timor Leste.
The UCT website is: https://uct.edu.tl/en
14. Sophea Chrek
Ms. Sophea Chrek has been working with rural women in small-holding agriculture and agroforestry in Cambodia. She is the coordinator of the Social Action for Community and Development (SACD), Cambodia. Regularly, she held gatherings of rural women and small holders in Cambodia, opening more spaces for rural women to exchange ideas between themselves, and between rural women with researchers, educators, and policy makers.
Her profile, among other, is in:
15. Kanchana Di-ut
Ms. Kanchana Di-ut has been working with rural women mostly in Northern Thailand. Her involvement includes research and translator for rural women in their public role in policy making.
16. Jean-François Bissonnette, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of
Geography at Université Laval in Quebec City where he teaches qualitative
methods, planning and environmental management. He is also director of graduate
programs in agroforestry. His works covers agrarian transformations in
Southeast Asia ranging forest management to the politics of biodiversity
conservation.
His profile is in:
15.
Dr. Natalia Pacheco
Dr. Natalia Pacheco is social scientist
working in the field of human rights and environment. She worked for a long
stint as diplomat of the Bolivian Mission to United Nations in Geneva. Her work
includes work in the leadership of Bolivian Mission in the negotiation of
UNDROP (United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and Other People in
Rural Areas).
Her profile is in
16.
HARVEST
HARVEST, Higher Education Leadership on
Agricultural and Food Rights for Environmental Sustainability, is a platform
for collaboration of Europe-based and Southeast Asia-based HEIs (higher
education institutions) which develop study and academic contribution into Agricultural
and Food Rights for Environmental Sustainability. HARVEST is coordinated by the
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Profile of HARVEST is as follow, in:
17.
Center for Decentralisation and Local
Governance (Pusat Kajian Otonomi Daerah/PUSKOD)
The center is affiliated with Faculty of
Law, Universitas Kristen Indonesia. The Center developed a study on
decentralisation and local governance mainly in Indonesia, and also taking
stock on the dynamics of local democracy around the world.
The profile of the center: https://puskodindonesia.blogspot.com/
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[1] DRAFT
prepaed by APINTLAW (ASSOCIATED PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW), Henry Thomas
Simarmata, henrythomas.apintlaw@gmail.com, https://apintlaw.info
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