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Ms. Anke Weisheit

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Organization: Excel Hort Condsult Ltd
Country: Uganda
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Agricultural Engineer, MSc with more than 16 years of experience in tropical agriculture, value chain development and agri-business in Eastern and Southern Africa. Currently, she is the Director of Research and Innovations at Excel Hort Consult Limited Uganda, Deputy Task Force Leader for the establishment of the Pharm-Biotechnology and Traditional Medicine Centre at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, and Chairperson Programmes and Research Committee of THETA Uganda. In addition, she is an External Expert to the European Commission Horizon2020 and a Co-founder and Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Agribusiness Incubation Alliance of Uganda.

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    • Comments on Global Core Set of forest-related indicators:

      Indicator 5: Include Non-Timber Forest related jobs (Honey, resin, herbal medicine etc. related jobs)

      Indicator 8: include Academia

      Indicator 12: Relevant to forest health/cover is how much wood is harvested by the area of forest, not per forest worker

      Indicator 14: Agree with b. as forests have more diverse products than wood and unsuitable harvesting of those can damage the forest (e.g. tree bark for medicine, mushrooms, honey, stakes, firewood)

      Indicator 16: Agree on the percentage of total livelihood depending from forest-related services (food, shelter, habitat, medicine, building materials, energy, recreation etc.) - suggestion minimum 70% will indicate high dependence on forest-related services and products. This will enable this indicator to be measurable.