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ArticleTowards the development of a strategy for sustainable commercialization of non-timber forest products in Kenya: A situational analysis
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) play a significant role in the livelihoods of Kenyans. This paper reports the key strengths that could be optimized, opportunities available, weaknesses that need to be mitigated, and threats that require recognition to have a strategy for the sustainable commercialization of NTFPs in Kenya. This study was funded by The Restoration Initiative (TRI) project being implemented by FAO and other partners. It involved consultations with 50 institutions and a review of relevant publications, reports, policies, legislation, and strategies. The key interventions in the sub-sector include research and development, resource assessment and mapping, value chain analyses, capacity building, value addition, piloting plantation production, and policy reviews for a limited number of products such as gums and resins, honey, aloes, and mushrooms. The major stakeholders are collectors, community groups, traders, National government agencies, County Governments, private sector actors, development partners, and civil society organizations. Key barriers to the commercialization of NTFPs include deforestation, traditional production, and harvesting technologies, inadequate bulking facilities, insufficient value addition, weak market linkages, and information systems as well as weak policy and institutional frameworks. It is concluded that sustainable commercialization of these products in the country requires a strategy that involves revision/domestication of laws and policies, public-private partnerships, research, innovation, value addition, technology development and transfer, capacity building, synergies and complementarities. Keywords: Non-timber forest products, situational analysis, strategy, Kenya ID: 3485349 -
DocumentCircular (bio) economy of Brazilian planted-forest based industry: a successful case towards a sustainable, inclusive and innovative green path
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá) is the association responsible for institutionally representing the planted tree production chain with its main stakeholders. Ibá represents 50 companies and 9 state entities for products originating from planted trees, most notably wood panels, laminate flooring, pulp, paper, charcoal steel industry and biomass, as well as independent producers and financial investors. The sector holds 9 million hectares of planted trees besides 5.9 million hectares for conservation adding 7% of Brazil’s industrial Gross Domestic Product.
Climate change has gained emergency status and requires concrete transformations, since there is no more room for the linear economy. Resources need to be intelligently used to minimize pressure on natural capital. Scaling up the sustainable bioeconomy is essential to decarbonize the economy. Committed to that change, the planted tree sector in Brazil has started to act early by investing in innovation to optimize the use of resources into valuable new solutions. This paper aims to present cases on energy, paper recycling, water circularity and the production of around 20 new products/uses coming from dozens of residues. As a brief, 95,8 % of the solid residues has at least one more use. From that, 67% of residues produce 69% of the energy demanded, contributing to a renewable energy matrix. In post-consumer waste, 67% of the paper is recycled, reducing the pressure of natural resources. In terms of water use, pulp and paper industry has decreased 75% of water needed to produce one ton of pulp and some mills and some wood panel mills have reached 100% of water circularity. This paper aims to show sectorial data and eight cases of companies from pulp and paper, panels and charcoal based steel industry moreover all benefits that (bio) circular economy brings for surrounding area of activities such as job creation, shared value, income generation etc. towards a sustainable and inclusive green path. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Innovation, Economic Development ID: 3486862 -
DocumentEconomic analysis of adaptation options toward drought-induced risk in forest: financial balance and/or carbon balance
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Forests provide ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being and reduce social vulnerability. Nowadays, the pace of changes induced by climate change is being too fast for a natural and spontaneous forest adaptation.
Drought is a natural phenomenon affecting forest productivity and health especially when its intensity is extreme. In Europe, trees are suffering from severe water shortage occurring particularly in early summer. While drought is considered as one of the main damaging abiotic risks, its induced impacts on forest health have been underestimated for a very long time due to inconspicuous damage at first sight.
In this context, forests need adaptation to reduce vulnerability to drought-induced dieback and to anticipate and cope with this increasing risk.
Different adaptation strategies were tested and combined through forest-management-based and market-based adaptations using original methods.
This thesis provided the following main results for the considered case studies and under some assumptions. First, the results proved that adaptation is relevant to face drought-induced risk of dieback: Adaptation, both forest-management-based and market-based, provides always the best scenario as opposed to the baseline or the “do-nothing” scenario from an economic perspective. Second, combining forest-management-based adaptation strategies appeared as a relevant way to adapt forests in view of a drought-induced risk of forest dieback. The combination of different strategies was therefore more beneficial for the forest owner than each strategy separately (synergy vs. additionality). However, not all adaptation options appear relevant (i.e. maladaptation). In the same vein, while forest insurance against drought-induced risk can be an option, the low gain of current contracts cannot provide enough incentive for forest owners to adopt these insurance contracts. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Climate change, Research, Sustainable forest management ID: 3482552
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