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ArticleBuilding sustainable landscapes and local livelihoods through community forestry in Timor-Leste
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Agriculture, forests, and livestock sectors contribute to the livelihoods of more than 70 percent of the rural population in Timor-Leste. Forests play a significant role to keep the hilly landscape intact, conserve biodiversity, and support income generation and enterprises development. Studies revealed that there is an increasing trend of deforestation, and degradation in Timor-Leste posing significant threats, including those on climate change, food security and survival of local communities. Forest Resource Assessment (FRA), 2020 shows that the forest areas declined from 0.96 mha in 1990 to 0.92 mha in 2020, and this trend has been accelerating very fast. At present, 67 percent of the forests and forestlands in Timor-Leste are under private (largely customary) and 33 percent under public ownership. Management of customary forests and agricultural land is commonly governed by customary institutions such as tara bandu and recognised by the Laws on General Regime of Forests (2017). The Law stipulates that community forestry is the main strategy for implementing the national forest policy. The Government has recognised the role of local people in conservation of watershed, reforestation, generating income and employment through forest-based enterprises. Furthermore, the Government is committed to devolve legal rights to local communities necessary for protection, management and utilisation of forest resources under community forestry. Against this backdrop, as a part of the community forestry technical cooperation program (TCP) to Timor-Leste, FAO has been supporting community-based forestry,and forest tenure assessment in the country using recently developed global frameworks. In addition, community forestry will be further strengthened through enabling legal framework such as forestry law and community forestry strategy. This paper shares the results, and lessons learned so far obtained from the project and draws outlines on future implications for community forestry for building sustainable landscapes and livelihoods in Timor-Leste. Key words: community forestry; Timor-Leste; forest policies; tenure; customary rule ID: 3485599 -
DocumentDrones - A feasible way to revive forests
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The role of forests in human survival is inevitable but the forest cover decreases by deforestation increased wildfires and unpredictable climate change. To regrow forest we need a lot of manpower and as per some estimates a human can plant about 1500 trees a day and there are many inaccessible places like mountains, river beds, which is not easy for human planters to go, carry, and plant trees. To combat this we need to find out effective mechanisms to plant a large volume of tree seeds in a stipulated period over a mass area. The feasible solution for this is the usage of drones in reviving forests. Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), they are like small helicopters which can be flown by a person standing on the ground using a remote.
Drones can fly and drop seeds at places that were difficult to reach earlier. They can map out the territory, carry the seeds, and drop the load at the identified spots, and go back to check the progress at frequent intervals and creating a large-scale green landscape. The built of the drone for planting trees are designed to be durable enough to lift the high quantity of seeds and they mark the areas suitable for dropping the seeds using machine learning technologies and 3D imaging. The seeds used in the drones are highly recommended to use a protected nutrient coating that acts as a safe shell to bury them in the ground, protect them from animals, and be flown away.
Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses recently have been on the rise. Given the ferocity of the devastation, we need hundreds of companies, individuals, and groups to come forward, leverage the technology, take these aerial vehicles to the sky and make the planet green again. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Biodiversity conservation, Climate change, Sustainable forest management ID: 3616686 -
ArticleEmpowering local communities to protect forestry resources and reverse deforestation and forest degradation in high value Chilgoza forests in the Kalash valley of Pakistan
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The Kalash valley of Chitral district of Pakistan possesses unique culture and forestry resources, including the Chilgoza forests, which are of high conservation value and a major source of livelihood. Chilgoza trees grow very slowly, thrive in high mountain areas of difficult access, and have a very low rate of survival in reforestation. The total forest area in the valley is 7 530 hectares with a population of 11 650. Forestry resources are limited and subject to deforestation and degradation, mainly due to fuelwood collection and animal grazing. 78 percent of these forests are understock and 74 percent of them have little to no regeneration. This has dire implications for the local communities who depend on the forests for products and services. Following the Kalash community’s request to reverse deforestation and forest degradation, FAO developed a project under The Restoration Initiative (TRI) in line with the national initiative “Clean and Green Pakistan”. It aims to empower local communities and engage them in the conservation and management of the Chilgoza forest by supporting the gender-inclusive Chilgoza Forest Protection and Conservation Committees (CFPCC). As the CFPCCs are endorsed by the provincial Forest Department, they are empowered to implement rules and regulations. The CFPCC set rules for forest protection (such as stopping the illicit cutting of trees, regulating livestock grazing, protecting wildlife, overseeing the harvesting of non-timber forest products) as well as for the harvesting of Chilgoza cones to prevent both overharvesting and the collection of immature cones. Improved Chilgoza cone harvesting tool sets have been provided and 12 assisted natural regeneration sites have been set up where local communities ensure grazing exclusion. Through local value addition for the Chilgoza nut, local communities increase their revenue. Local empowerment of communities allows for significant deforestation and degradation reduction. Key words: Deforestation and Forest Degradation, Innovation, Gender, Economic Development ID: 3485821
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