SFM Fact sheet 2: SFM and primary forests

Abstract

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is a voluntary interagency partnership on forests that was established in April 2001 in response to an invitation issued in the resolution 2000/35 by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) that established the International Arrangement on Forests and the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) therein. ECOSOC gave further guidance for CPF through its resolution 2015/33 by, inter alia, reaffirming the principles and defining the core functions of the CPF as a component of the International Arrangement on Forests. The Partnership is currently comprised of fifteen international organizations, institutions and secretariats that have substantial programmes on forests. FAO is the permanent chair of the partnership and UNFF is the permanent secretariat, the vice-chair rotates annually.

The objective of this series of fact sheets produced by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests is to inform decisionmakers and stakeholders about some of the issues and opportunities facing the implementation of sustainable forest management in the 21st century.