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ArticleRestoration of productive landscapes through management of trees on-farms in the off reserve landscape through tree registration and climate smart farming systems in Ghana
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Ghana has a total land area of 238,540 km2 and approximately 15% of the country has been set aside as forest reserves, wildlife parks, and the remaining 85% is owned by stools, skins and individuals across the country. All naturally occurring trees in off reserve landscapes are vested in the state but they occur in individual and community lands and farms. Most of Ghana’s agricultural system embraces the retention of trees during the course of cultivation with trees integrated in a mixture with crops. In the past, farmers destroyed these trees because their cocoa farms were destroyed by felling of trees for timber and they could not get compensation or any support from the state. To achieve Ghana’s Forest policy goals and objectives of the forest Plantation strategy, Ghana is piloting a programme to provide legal support for farmers, optimize the productivity and sustainability of smallholder farming systems by developing appropriate technologies that involve trees (incorporation of trees-on farm within 3.75 million hectares) and enhances connectivity and biodiversity between the agricultural and forest landscapes. A pilot programme to register all planted and naturally occurring trees at the district level has begun with recent support from Climate Investment Fund through Ghana’s Forest investment programme (GFIP) to provide options for tree tenure regimes, tree ownership and benefit sharing mechanisms for farmers to plant more trees. This paper highlights the importance of trees on farm for landscape restoration, legal framework and the procedures for tree registration, identified strengths and weaknesses and potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as sustained reduction in degradation and deforestation whilst increasing productivity per hectare for farmers. Keywords: Landscape management, Deforestation and forest degradation, Climate change, Agriculture, Sustainable forest management ID: 3624089 -
DocumentHow sustainable is the current sustainable forest management approach in Nepal?
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Participatory approach of forest management in Nepal has contributed to increase the forest cover by two folds within two decades. Being protection-oriented it couldn’t contribute towards forest quality improvement and derive economic opportunities to the forest associated communities. In response to the limitations, fulfilling growing demand for forest-based products and need for better silvicultural practice, the Government of Nepal initiated a practice of scientific management of forests (SciFM) in 2012. The initiative has expanded now to 30 collaborative forests, 285 community forests and government managed block forests in Nepal. There has been an argument on the sustainability of SciFM practice among the stakeholders. Eight year since the launch, there is limited information and research about its implementation related to sustainability.
This paper has examined the economic, social and ecological sustainability of forest SciFM practices against the standards for sustainable forest management for Nepal approved by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Focus Group Discussions with four communities from ecological regions, key information interviews, experts consultation, document review and online survey were the major sources of information.
Our analysis shows that the current scientific forest management practice yet to fully meet the requirement to make it more sustainable. Compliance with forest policy and laws, application of technical forestry, fair benefit sharing mechanism, and record keeping systems are relatively addressed however more effort would be needed for securing workers right, adoption of FPIC procedure, safeguarding biodiversity, high value conservation and monitoring and evaluation. To increase overall sustainability, simplification of procedures and confidence building of forest users groups/local communities, indigenous peoples, women through technical, financial and managerial capacity building is highly required. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, Governance, Adaptive and integrated management, Economic Development ID: 3622557 -
ArticleNature-based tourism governance as one of the innovative approaches to protected area management and governance
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Nature-based tourism (NBT) is treated as one of the crucial income-generating opportunities for the local communities who are directly and indirectly depended on the natural resources of the protected areas of Bangladesh. Being a multi-stakeholder-based business, NBT development and practice in the ecologically sensitive forest-based protected areas is encapsulated as a complex phenomenon which have further been aggravated due to the application of co-management approach (CMA). CMA is as an alternative management approach to the protected areas of Bangladesh. The CMA is enticing a paradigm shift in protected area management which is basically designed to promote biodiversity conservation through improving its governance and creating income generating opportunities particularly for the local resource user groups. The study explored that NBT governance performs a vital role in ensuring the management and governance of protected areas. Several governance dimensions (participation, accountability, transparency, power, rules of law, and social learning) were studied to analyse how the management and governance of protected areas were persuaded considering CMA as a shared governance approach. The findings of the case study showed that each of the governance dimensions of NBT positively influenced the management and overall governance of Lawachara National Park which facilitated the acceptance and applicability of NBT not only as an income generating opportunity but also a tool to promote the management and governance of the Park. There were many challenges (like lack of trained human resource, incentives, monitoring and tourism management strategies, coordination among the concerned stakeholders, and so on) to practice NBT in a systematic way. Addressing these challenges effectively are expected to further improve the tourists’ experiences as well as the hosts’ experiences that will ultimately improve the overall management and governance status of protected areas. Keywords: nature-based tourism; co-management approach; shared governance; protected area management; complexities ID: 3486697
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