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DocumentStrengthening Forest Management Unit for Sustainable Forest Management and Community Empowerment - TCP/INS/3602 2019
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No results found.Indonesian forests are home to some of the mostbiologically diverse forests in the world. The total forestarea in the country is 124 million ha.Forests play a critical role in community welfare. As such,the Government promotes the use and management offorest resources to support national development goalsin a manner that is environmentally sustainable,economically viable and socially equitable.To date, deforestation, illegal logging, forestencroachment and forest fires have been a majorproblem in the forestry sector. According to FAO’sGlobal Forest Resources Assessment 2015, the rate ofdeforestation remains alarmingly high. It was reportedthat Indonesia underwent annual forest loss of684 000 ha between 2010 and 2015, a figure secondonly to Brazil in terms of the rate of annual forestreduction in the last five years. -
BookletScaling up community participation in forest management through REDD+ in Zambia 2019
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No results found.This policy brief provides an overview of the potential for scaling up community participation in forest management in Zambia as part of the country's REDD+ investment strategy. The report gives some insight on the legal and policy context for community forest management, joint forest management, and private forest management. It also describes the land tenure context, gives examples of good practice in Zambia, and presents a series of investment options. -
MeetingSecretariat note: Guidelines for using forest concession to manage public forests. Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
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No results found.The importance of forests in global sustainable development has been largely acknowledged by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. In order to ensure that forests deliver their socio-economic and environmental benefits, it is crucial to expand sustainable forest management (SFM) based on the best available practices. Although progress towards SFM has occurred, the global proportion of land area covered by forests is still in decline and many countries in Asia and the Pacific are still sustaining significant deforestation and forest degradation.
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