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DocumentOther documentInternational Conference on Forest Education: Breakout Group 2.4 2021
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No results found.Community groups, producer organizations and CSOs are important players in the forestry sector. These groups, either formal or informally organized, constitute efficient channels to exchange experiences and knowledge among farmers, producers and forest dwellers. They also are well-positioned for delivering capacity-building, education and extension services to their members as they are rooted on the ground, know the needs of their constituencies and have the local and traditional knowledge for the sustainable management of forests. This BOG will present the experiences of the Forest and Farm Facility and its partners working on strengthening the capacities and knowledge of communities, producer organizations and forest-dependent peoples on natural resources management. The presentations will promote discussions towards the needs and challenges of local communities and farmers experience regarding forest education and extension services; and the role of civil society organizations and community groups in the provision of education and extension services, and the importance of including traditional and local needs in the designing and delivering forest education and extension programs. -
DocumentOther documentInternational Conference on Forest Education: Breakout Group 3.2 2021
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No results found.“Forestra”, a new online gateway to global forest education is currently being developed under the joint FAO-IUFRO-ITTO Project “Creation of a Global Forest Education Platform and Launch of a Joint Initiative under the Aegis of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. As the world becomes more digitally connected, the opportunity for online resource access grows. Forestra is designed to facilitate this access to forest-related knowledge and information through an innovative semantic search function. Forestra is being set up with the following specific objectives: • Serving for global knowledge sharing and dissemination of information from and for all kinds of forest education institutes and forest educators; and • Providing linkages and enable interaction with other education, training and awareness initiatives around the world. The information on Forestra falls under three main categories, which can be filtered: • Tertiary Forest Education • Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), both long- and short-term • Forest-related Public Environmental Education This session will demonstrate the prototype Forestra and offer the opportunity to test the search function on a test dataset. -
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No results found.his 90-minute interactive session will explore the educational needs towards forest-related employment and green jobs. Results of the research by the joint EFI-IFSA-IUFRO project “Global student networking and green jobs in the forest sector” will guide the discussions on future forest-related careers and how to prepare for them. The different perspectives from educators, students, employers and employees will highlight demands as well as interlinkages and the need for collaboration in order to promote innovation in the forest sector.
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No results found.There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. This report is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission. It presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields. It also represents a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
2020Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the number of undernourished in the world. Nevertheless, the revision confirms the trend reported in past editions: the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a challenge. There has been some progress for child stunting, low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding, but at a pace that is still too slow. Childhood overweight is not improving and adult obesity is on the rise in all regions.The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are also not on track to meet global nutrition targets. The food security and nutritional status of the most vulnerable population groups is likely to deteriorate further due to the health and socio economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.The report puts a spotlight on diet quality as a critical link between food security and nutrition. Meeting SDG 2 targets will only be possible if people have enough food to eat and if what they are eating is nutritious and affordable. The report also introduces new analysis of the cost and affordability of healthy diets around the world, by region and in different development contexts. It presents valuations of the health and climate-change costs associated with current food consumption patterns, as well as the potential cost savings if food consumption patterns were to shift towards healthy diets that include sustainability considerations. The report then concludes with a discussion of the policies and strategies to transform food systems to ensure affordable healthy diets, as part of the required efforts to end both hunger and all forms of malnutrition. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookGlobal Forest Resources Assessment 2020
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2020FAO completed its first assessment of the world’s forest resources in 1948. At that time, its major objective was to collect information on available timber supply to satisfy post-war reconstruction demand. Since then, the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. This, the latest of these assessments, examines the status of, and trends in, forest resources over the period 1990–2020, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide. The production of FRA 2020 also involved collaboration among many partner organizations, thereby reducing the reporting burden on countries, increasing synergies among reporting processes, and improving data consistency. The results of FRA 2020 are available in several formats, including this report and an online database containing the original inputs of countries and territories as well as desk studies and regional and global analyses prepared by FAO. I invite you to use these materials to support our common journey towards a more sustainable future with forests.