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ArticleJournal articleCreating a global map base of Indigenous Peoples and local community places and people
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.The security that the world’s forest-dwelling people have over their collective lands and resources are of increasing importance in the face of global challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation. As areas occupied by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) are increasingly threatened, the need to clarify rights becomes more urgent. Yet, progress is incomplete and held back by a lack of knowledge of where and how IPLCs occupy land. Building on the success of the LandMark initiative to map known IPLC land rights, and Prindex, a joint initiative of Global Land Alliance and ODI to measure perceived tenure security, the next major effort is the development of a global participatory IPLC map and database platform – “map base” – with the transformative potential to map all IPLC rights to land and resources globally. This document details the prospective development of the map base platform and methodology for measuring tenure security. Key advances include the platform’s scalability, focus on community participation, predictive approaches to identifying lands likely under IPLC occupation, and the incorporation of spatially-referenced perceived tenure security data. The result will be a unique and robust platform that will fill key knowledge gaps in the urgent discussions around effective approaches to protecting forest areas and supporting the people who actively manage and depend on these ecosystems. Keywords: Sustainable forest management; Adaptive and integrated management; Monitoring and data collection; Landscape management; Governance ID: 3623235 -
ArticleJournal articleA study on the establishment of crucial forest resources and cultural heritage protection systems using public big data (focusing on the use of QGIS)
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.In case of huge wildfires, the command headquarter of the relevant forest site immediately becomes a center on which all resources, such as material resources and manpower, are concentrated, giving a negative impact on effective management for fire-fighting manpower on ground. Even worse, the conditions of wildfires are naturally varied by each case while the fire spreads into vast areas in a short time, if left unchecked, so a quick decision for the fire fighting is inevitable. For this reason, the necessity of providing wildfire maps is increasingly recognized. Therefore, a wildfire map was created by mapping major forest resources, protected-trees and spatial information of cultural assets with QGIS (Quantum Geographic Information System), an open source geographic information system. Also, a verification experiment was conducted by utilizing ‘QField’ (a smartphone application) as a decision making platform in the forest disaster scene. As a result of the experiment, firstly, there was an improvement in effectiveness of the hours required to deploy firefighters (300 meters reduced, 61% improvement in terms of time), as the command headquarters could easily identify the case to be handled with the highest priority, and deploy the necessary number of firefighters promptly; secondly, immediate decision making was available at the scene of forest fire frequently changed its development by several factors, including wind; and thirdly, by utilizing big data for several elements like helicopters stations and catchments, we secured interoperability and expandability through which various kinds of forest maps could be generated. It is expected that various kinds of forest maps in this study can be widely utilized in the wildfire scenes by combining the maps with big data platforms, such as public data portals and national spatial data infrastructure. Key words: QGIS; QField, wildfire fighting; Korea Forest Service ID: 3623494 -
ArticleJournal articleOpportunities and limitations of non-wood forest products in the participatory guarantee systems of the plurinational state of Bolivia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Non-Wood Forestal Products (NWFP) offer regular incomes for collectors, producers in developing countries and they are considered as a livelihood strategy at tropical areas. In this study, the use of tropical seeds to elaborate handicrafts is an example how these seeds are collected at the tropics, transformed and sold to final consumers. For this study, we selected the Value Chain Approach (VCA) to identify the involved actors, the values of collections, processing and consumption along the chains. These four tropical seeds value chains were: Abrus precatorius, Jacaranda mimosifolia, Chamaedora elegans, and Dypsis lutescens. The objective was to identify the opportunities and limitations of the NWFP in the Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) which are acknowledged into the Law 3525/2007 for the Promotion of the Organic Agriculture at The Plurinational State of Bolivia. There are no previous studies on Participatory Certification for NWFP at national level. The study was located at the secondary forest of the Valle del Sacta UMSS-Tropico unit. This study took place from January to November 2013. The major results were: women are much more involved into the NWFP collection and processing tasks as well as in the consumption stage; Processors earn the twice than collectors due to the value adding tasks in order to produce a new product such as earrings, necklaces and others; the need to develop a NWFP seal through the PGS; the development of a tropical seed bank to supply the increasing demand during the whole year; and the need to involve a financial service provider with the two technical services such as the UMSS1 and CAPROECO2. The principal limitations were: the lack of ecologic information of the seed producing species; the lack of a custody chain in order to keep a control and monitoring of the activities along the chains; and the lack of market information for the real supply and demand. Keywords: Non-Wood Forestal Products, Tropical Seeds, Handicrafts, Value Chains Approach, Participatory Guarantee ID: 3481717 Systems
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Book (stand-alone)Corporate general interestUltra-processed foods, diet quality and human health 2019
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No results found.The significance of industrial processing for the nature of food and the state of human health - and in particular the techniques and ingredients developed by modern food science and technology - is generally underestimated. This is evident in both national and international policies and strategies designed to improve populations' nutrition and health. Until recently it has also been neglected in epidemiological and experimental studies concerning diet, nutrition and health. This report seeks to assess the impact of ultra-processed food on diet quality and health, based on NOVA, a food classification system developed by researchers at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. -
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all
2021In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis of their trends. Altogether, the report highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how to better address the global food security and nutrition situation.To understand how hunger and malnutrition have reached these critical levels, this report draws on the analyses of the past four editions, which have produced a vast, evidence-based body of knowledge of the major drivers behind the recent changes in food security and nutrition. These drivers, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, include conflicts, climate variability and extremes, and economic slowdowns and downturns – all exacerbated by the underlying causes of poverty and very high and persistent levels of inequality. In addition, millions of people around the world suffer from food insecurity and different forms of malnutrition because they cannot afford the cost of healthy diets. From a synthesized understanding of this knowledge, updates and additional analyses are generated to create a holistic view of the combined effects of these drivers, both on each other and on food systems, and how they negatively affect food security and nutrition around the world.In turn, the evidence informs an in-depth look at how to move from silo solutions to integrated food systems solutions. In this regard, the report proposes transformative pathways that specifically address the challenges posed by the major drivers, also highlighting the types of policy and investment portfolios required to transform food systems for food security, improved nutrition, and affordable healthy diets for all. The report observes that, while the pandemic has caused major setbacks, there is much to be learned from the vulnerabilities and inequalities it has laid bare. If taken to heart, these new insights and wisdom can help get the world back on track towards the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms.