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Policy briefScience, practice, and policy expert dialogue on food systems and resilience: Key priorities for aligning global ecosystem restoration, biodiversity, climate resilience and sustainable food policies with local level action 2022
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No results found.The policy brief is a reflection upon key take home messages from the constellation of thinking and events in 2021 through a lens of science, practice, and policy with concrete examples from countries participating the Resilient Food Systems Programme. These include; the UN Food Systems Summit; updated evidence and deeper commitments to addressing climate change through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC Climate Change 2021) and the 26th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and opportunities to intensify efforts on biodiversity and restoring land health included in the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD). -
MeetingGlobal political processes: United Nations Forum of Forests, Sustainable Development Goals, and the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change
Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission, 29th Session. Lima, Peru, 9 - 13 November, 2015
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ProjectSupport the Elaboration and Alignment of Forest Policy and Action Plan to SDGs and Climate Change Agenda - TCP/KYR/3603 2020
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No results found.Although Kyrgyzstan is a country with little forest cover, its forests provide a wide range of goods and services and are particularly important for the local communities. More than 35 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. The poorer, more isolated rural communities tend to rely on forests as a source of consumables, energy, and, to an increasing extent, income-generating products. Indeed, many rural families depend on forest resources for their daily subsistence and income. However, forest degradation is a serious problem throughout the country, despite measures taken by the Government of Kyrgyzstan; owing to the unstable economic situation, urbanization and the encroachment of agriculture on forest lands. In addition, the lack of norms clearly defining tenure arrangements for infrastructure, agriculture and mining development on forest lands broadens the gap between the measures taken by the Government and the real situation locally. The low capacity of the local population, a lack of information on the decision-making process for forestry management, and inadequate funding also increase the number of problems affecting the forest sector. In this context, the National Forest Policy, comprising the Concept of forest sector development, the National Forest Programme, and National Action Plan for forest sector development were last revised and updated in 2005, and therefore risked becoming outdated and not relevant to current challenges. Against this background, the Government of Kyrgyzstan requested that FAO provide technical assistance to the State Agency on Environment Protection and Forestry (SAEPF) to improve the forest policies framework, and to create an enabling environment and guidance for country-driven forest sector development, with mechanisms for more participatory and intersectoral approaches, and strengthened institutional capacities for their implementation, towards a more efficient use of public resources and effective conservation and sustainable management of the country’s forest resources.
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