LUSES - An International Joint Laboratory on the impacts of rapid Land Use Change on Soil Ecosystem Services

LMI LUSES Annual Meeting , Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 19 – 20 October, 2015
Followed by
JEAI ECCO RUBBER Meeting and Workshop on “Socio-economic And Environmental Contexts of Rubber Plantation Sustainability?” Co-organized with HRPP and KDR

The LMI LUSES Annual Meeting will take place in Khon Kaen University from October 19^th to 20^th, 2015.

Presentation of the LMI LUSES

The LMI LUSES is an International Joint Laboratory launched by the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) in 2012 that focuses on the environmental impact of agriculture on soil in context of agrarian transition in south East Asia. The LMI supports the creation of regional scale projects on this issue.

The LMI LUSES gathers 2 French and 7 Asian institutions from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam including Khon Kaen University. Through the LMI LUSES, IRD has created a Young Research Team (JEAI) entitled “ECO-RUBBER” that aims to study the environmental impact of rubber plantation in Northeast Thailand.

Objectives of the annual meeting

This meeting will be an opportunity for LUSES partners from Thailand, France, Laos and Vietnam to reinforce the partnership and the relationships between the several institutions. The objective will be to gather and to establish an update of the several projects led by LUSES’ teams and to make statements one year after the last annual meeting that took place in Laos in 2014. Since the LMI LUSES project (phase 1) will end in 2016, this meeting will also be an opportunity to elaborate the main guidelines of the next LUSES project (phase 2).

Preliminary Program of the LMI LUSES 2 days meeting

Project reports(Tree plantation, Organic matter management,

Ecofilter, SEALNET).

-       Morning: Discussions on the second phase of LUSES

-       Afternoon: Executive committee

Contact:

-        Alain BRAUMAN, LMI LUSES Director, alain.brauman@ird.fr

-       Kan BOONLUA, LMI LUSES Assistant, kanboo.ird@gmail.com

-       Khon Kaen University, LUSES Annual Meeting webpage: http://ag.kku.ac.th/rubber_tree/index.php

The JEAI ECCO RUBBER Meeting and Workshop will take place in Khon Kaen University from October 21th to 22^nd, 2015.

Presentation of the JEAI ECCO-RUBBER

The Young Associated Team (JEAI) ECCO-RUBBER aims to contribute to the development of a research team that gathers French, Thai and Lao researchers and partners on the study of the soil functioning changes under tree cultivation, with a special focus on the case of rubber tree in Northeast Thailand and Laos.

The JEAI ECCO-RUBBER was launched in 2014. Several collective and individual trainings have been provided to increase the partners’ skills (paper writing, technical manipulations, etc).  

Preliminary Program of the JEAI meeting and workshop

-       Welcome ceremony of JEAI ECORUBBER

-       Workshop (program in preparation)

Internal meeting of JEAI members 

Contact:

-       Dr. Christian Hartmann, IRD researcher, christian.hartmann@ird.fr

-       Dr. Mr Supat Isarangkool Na Ayutthayal, KKU researcher, isupat@kku.ac.th

Annual meeting program

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