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Book (stand-alone)Global forest survey concept paper 2000
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No results found.The Forestry Department of FAO is developing a Global Forest Survey (GFS) following its broad mandate to carry out global assessments of forests and forestry. The GFS would be part of the Forest Reources Assessment Programme and would complement the compilation and analyses of national reports and information. The current paper outlines the background and suggested approach. The GFS would be a large undertaking that would rely on FAO’s role for coordinating global information efforts, as well as funding and implementation by international organisations and governments. The GFS has a strong emphasis on FAO’s coordinating and facilitating role, inviting partners to implement the survey through independent country projects. The background to the GFS is the gap between required and available information on forests and forestry. Despite considerable attention in international fora over the past decades, information on basic forestry parameters is still missing or of a poor quality for most countries. Systematic inventories are carried out only by a small proportion of the world’s countries. The efforts to establish forest inventories in developing countries have generally not lead to ongoing monitoring of the resources and its use, nor to a sustained capacity to carry out forest surveys. Requirements for forest and forestry information are large and undisputable. On national level, quality information is required for policy development, implementation and monitoring. Without relev ant base information, it is not possible to reliably outline optional courses, nor to evaluate the effects of previous decisions. On the international level, several processes, notably those dealing with carbon cycling and biodiversity, require quality controlled input to models and analyses as well as monitoring systems. Such information is today largely missing. -
MeetingWorkshop 1, session 5 - State of Mediterranean Forests 2013
Drylands Monitoring Week 19-23 January 2015, FAO HQ, Rome
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Book (stand-alone)State of Mediterranean Forests 2018 2018
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The Mediterranean region has more than 25 million hectares of Mediterranean forests and about 50 million hectares of other Mediterranean wooded lands. They make crucial contributions to rural development, poverty alleviation, food security, as well as, the agricultural, water, tourism, and energy sectors. Changes in climate, societies, and lifestyles to create appropriate financial incentives and tools. in the Mediterranean region could have serious negative consequences for forests, with the potential to lead to the loss or diminution of those contributions and to a wide range of economic, social and environmental problems. In the future, Mediterranean forests will support agriculture and human wellbeing. It is therefore crucial to improve policies, practices, and to promote sustainable management to provide social and economic benefits as well as to increase the resilience of ecosystems and societies. This new edition of the State of Mediterranean Forests aims to demonstrate the importance of Mediterranean forests to implementing solutions to tackle global issues such as climate change and population increase. Part 1: The Mediterranean landscape: importance and threats. Despite the important natural capital provided by Mediterranean forests, they are under threats from climate change and population increase and other subsidiary drivers of forest degradation. Part 2: Mediterranean forest-based solutions. Forests and landscape restoration, adaptation of forests and adaptation using forests, climate change mitigation, and conserving biodiversity are additional and complementary approaches to address the drivers of forest degradation to the benefit of populations and the environment. Part 3: Creating an enabling environment to scale up solutions. To scale up and replicate forest-based solutions, there is a need to change the way we see the role of forests in the economy, to put in place relevant policies, more widespread participatory approaches, to recognize the economic value of the goods and services provided by forests and, ultimately, to create appropriate financial incentives and tools.
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