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Poster, bannerCommunities, smallholders and their organisations to address climate change 2016
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No results found.Climate financing programmes such as REDD+, the Green Climate Fund and other efforts aim to provide global climate benefits while operating at local landscape levels. Failure to find the best way to engage and channel resources to local stakeholders and align their interests with forest conservation will significantly compromise the chances of achieving the carbon sequestration and mitigation targets, and could further marginalize poor and vulnerable people. It is here that forest and farm produ cer organisations play a pivotal role Local communities and smallholders have shown an enormous potential to preserve forest landscapes and generate economic and social development benefits. But they require critical enabling conditions to be in place which include not only secure commercial forest tenure, but also local organization with technical and business capacity to restore and sustainable and profitable use forest landscapes. For this reason, as REDD+ and other programmes are moving from planning to implementation, the role and participation of forest and farm producer organisations ought to be given much more prominence both in adapting to and mitigating climate change. By building inclusive partnerships, programs like REDD+ could channel the enabling investments that will secure tenure and build the organizational capacity to make resilient use of it across a range of sectors. -
Policy briefForest and farm producers – climate-change sentinels
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No results found.This policy brief summarizes key findings and sets out six clear recommendations for how to build long-term climate resilience among smallholders. Smallholder farmers are already taking action on climate resilience and producer organizations are best-placed to support them. We urgently need to invest and scale up support for forest and farm producer organizations to boost the resilience of smallholder farmers – for their own livelihoods, for global food security, and to maintain sustainable forests and farms. -
BookletThe role of forest smallholders and their organizations in changing climate 2017
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No results found.National organizations and networks of smallholder forest producers play an important role in contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation, spanning political and practical action. Innovative and successful climate action builds on the particular strengths of each organization, and harnesses both the support of the membership base as well as organizational alliances in multi-actor networks. The wide agenda combining both technical and political issues on forests and climate change require both strong capacity and skillful leadership in order to balance the donor interests linked to considerable external funding with internal accountability towards local smallholder members and long-term strategic goals. Smallholder forest organizations should be recognized and supported in their quest for solutions that benefit rural economies while responding to climate change and ensuring a more integrated approach that also addresses other development goals. This publication summa rizes the findings of a review of the innovative ways in which smallholder forest producer organizations in developing countries are contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The review was carried out by the Finnish Agri-Agency for Food and Forest Development (FFD) and the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), in collaboration with the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), a partnership among the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Institut e for Environment and Development (IIED), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and AgriCord.
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