Executive Director of National FORUM International participates in international events from Stanford University

In recent days traveled to Palo Alto, USA. Mario Bazán, Executive Director of the Foro Nacional Internacional to participate in a series of meetings to be held in the School of Law at Stanford University. The first one organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and Stanford University Dialogues Uncommon / Woods Institute for the Environment, aims to explore new approaches to understanding the link between ecosystem services and human welfare, as well as the new policy and funding mechanisms for interrelated in the decision making process to achieve better results for both. The Ecosystem Services Workshop & Human Well-Being, will be held on 07 and 08 December.

Similarly, part of the workshop Bazán "Discussion of a Standardized Approach to Evaluating Development Strategies of agricultural effects on human well-being and the environment organized by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Natural Capital Project to be held on December 9 at school laws of Stanford University. The objectives for this workshop are i) to discuss and begin to outline an analytical framework referred to prioritize management or a framework for policy questions in terms of agricultural development and issues related to poverty alleviation, (2) clearly define elements of the standard framework that encompasses multiple ecosystems and social impacts (indicators, criteria or thresholds to be tested, etc.).