The PRESA team at ICRAF is excited to be attending the meeting entitled Taking Stock and Charting a Way Forward for Payments for Ecosystem Services in Africa, in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania from September 16-18, 2008.
We will have a booth at the “PES Trade Fair”  where sellers from the region will exhibit the ecosystem services at their sites, and potential buyers will be invited to meet with the sellers and explore potential PES deals. There we’ll be distributing information, tools and resources, and also officially launching this website.

PRESA is working at two sites in Tanzania — in the Ulugurus and Nguru mountains, and the West Usambaras — and we will be using the Katoomba meeting to officially launch the project in Tanzania. If you’re going to the meeting please come and say hello.

Lastly, we plan to blog live from the meeting, posting about our experiences and insights during this event. Please keep your eye on this blog — or subscribe to our RSS feed to recieve blog updates directly!