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ArticleAssessing wild forest products using a real-time forest resource and planning system
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Wild forest products (WFPs) are of utmost cultural and economic importance in Finland. Households pick 5–10 M kg of mushrooms and 40–60 M kg of berries as part of their everyman’s rights. There has been little benefit to forest owners in terms of WFPs, apart from birch sap, spruce shoots and spruce resin, which are excluded from collection under everyman’s rights. This is due to a lack of supporting forest management system3502939s that could consider the multiple use of forests, including WFPs, Here, we present the world’s first nationwide forest resource management system for WFPs, incorporated into an up-to-date resource management planning system, aimed at supporting forest-owner decision-making relating to WFP production, and allowing the diversification of income options from their forests. Models for potential gain in two different WFPs (birch sap, spruce shoots) and two different cultivable WFPs (Pakuri, lingzhi) were generated, using forest inventory data on WFPs, cultivation data and expert estimates from researchers on the suitability of forest compartments (soil, forest type, main tree species, development class, basal area, number of stems, annual growth, average tree age and diameter, soil wetness, area). The potential forest compartments were derived using models from forestry data. The production potential (kg, l) or potential to cultivate was calculated (FME) for each compartment, according to the models. This information was then uploaded to the database at the Metsaan.fi portal. This portal is available free to each forest owner and forestry operator. The database at this portal is updated daily to compartments, after forest management activities have been performed. This digital service offers promising possibilities for forest owners and industry, as the system allows resource estimation, its management and also, in the future, a trading place for actors. This will help to facilitate a shift towards more diverse and sustainable forest use. Keywords: Forest management, forest resources, wild forest products, multi-objective forest management, GIS, remote sensing ID: 3502939 -
ArticleDoes independent forest monitoring reduce forest infringement? Insights from Ghana’s collaborative mobile-based IFM system
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) has been a feature of international effort to improve forest governance since its beginning in Cambodia in 1999. Today, IFM has gained traction and is an integral element of emerging forest governance schemes such as voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) which seeks to promote trade in legal timber between EU member countries and timber-producing countries in the global south. Within the VPA, IFM aims to complement the national due diligence mechanisms by flagging illegalities and providing opportunities for redress. Ghana is one such country where IFM is emerging within the country's VPA to address perennial forest governance challenges including corruption. This is often done through projects that develop and train communities on forest laws and provide them with mobile phones and appropriate software applications to monitor and flagged illegalities within their localities. Although this has been done over the years little insights are available on how this IFM architecture has performed. Such analysis is required to understand if IFM presents any hope for sanitizing the forest sector. On the back of this, this paper review community IFM monitoring reports identify key trends on forest illegalities and how they were addressed or otherwise. We found that the real-time monitoring platform has generated 747 alerts as of December 2019. Nearly 72% of them have been verified with most Social Responsibility Agreement (SRA) related infractions resulting in some 32 communities receiving SRA for the first time or on a continuous basis. The study concludes that communities are now protecting their forest as a result of compliance from timber companies which has generated revenue in the form of social responsibility agreements for community projects. Managers of the forest reserves are now responsive to queries as a result of the digital nature of the alerts. Keywords: Monitoring and data collection, Deforestation and forest degradation, Sustainable forest management, Governance ID: 3470164 -
ArticleLong and short run effects of climate change on forest rents in Zambia: A time series analysis
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Extant literature often focuses on the impact of deforestation on climate change; often with conclusions that deforestation must be discouraged. However, forests are a key contributor to socio-economic wellbeing of the people at household level as well as to economic growth of nations through the natural resources extracted from them. Forests are a great reservoir of biodiversity. In most developing countries, forests are also the most reliable drug stores, they supply medicinal remedies. Instead of preventing people from utilizing these resources, a good approach is to embrace sustainable forest resource utilization. Hence, understanding how climate change affects forest rents would be useful in formulating policy that builds a resilient ecosystem. This study uses climate change and forest rents data from 1970 to 2019 to model long and short run relationship between climate change and forest rents in Zambia. Rainfall, temperature and agricultural land were used as climate change variables. This data was obtained from the World Bank climate change portal and World Development Index. A long run positive relationship was found between agricultural land and forest rents. The speed of adjustment was 56.85%. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were significant predictors in the short run. Rainfall was generally not a significant predictor of forest rents. The findings further indicate that increased rainfall granger causes increase in agricultural land clearance. Also a bi-directional causal relationship between CO2 and agricultural land was found. These findings offer interesting tips that could be considered when formulating energy, natural resource and climate change policies. Keywords: Forest rents, Climate change, Time series, Cointegration, Zambia ID 3624205
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