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ArticleJournal articleStrategic foresight in forestry: How Canada and the United States use a neglected tool to build a green, healthy and resilient future
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Strategic foresight is a tool for understanding the ways in which the future might unfold. It is a valuable tool for identifying and mitigating areas of risk while identifying opportunities for our forests, particularly in an age of uncertainty and accelerating change. In recent years, foresight has increasingly been adopted by governments, large organizations, and forward-looking business enterprises as a method to reduce risk for their operations. But forestry agencies have been relatively slow to adopt strategic foresight methods and perspectives. A key principle of foresight is the idea of multiple alternative futures. Rather than predicting exactly how the future is likely to unfold, foresight analysts identify several plausible futures. Foresight is a guide to identify potentially influential decisions, ideas, opportunities and threats. Both the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) are developing strategic foresight programs to help plan and operate in an environment of growing complexity, uncertainty and rapid change. The USFS has engaged in foresight in the agency’s R&D branch since 2010. The CFS’s foresight team provides advice to policymakers from within its strategic policy division and it builds capacity for forward thinking within the organization. The two organizations have recently partnered to share their findings and approaches. To that end, this paper shows how strategic foresight can help planners, managers, and policy makers understand the future of global forests, using insights from our respective agencies. We outline what foresight is, the suite of foresight tools and how they support proactive analysis and decision making, foresight’s usefulness for the forest sector, how it is practiced in North America, and how it may be beneficial for forestry globally. Keywords: Policies, knowledge management, innovation, research, partnerships ID: 3487592 -
DocumentOther documentGreen weight of willow clones at different plantation densities in short rotation forestry
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The wood of willow can be used as substrate for cultivation of shiitake mushroom and has a potential to replace other long rotation broadleaf tree species. Therefore, the willow Therefore, the willow clones were evaluated for the effects of plantation density on biomass production. The ETP's of three clones (J-799, J-194 and Kashmiri) was planted in three spacings/densities (1 × 1 m, 1 × 2 m and 1 × 3 m) in a randomized complete block design. The plants were coppiced after three growing periods and coppiced in the year 2020. The branch and above ground main stem green weight was weighted and total above ground green weight was calculated. The maximum branch green weight (3.93 kg), main stem green weight (14.47 kg) and total above ground green weight (18.40 kg) per plant was recorded in plants grown in a spacing of 1 × 3 m. While, total above ground green weight per hectare basis, it was maximum (487.50 q ha-1) in spacing of 1 × 2 m and a minimum (423.44 q ha-1) in spacing of 1 × 3 m. The plantation distance of 1 × 2 m was found most suitable for getting maximum green above ground green weight of willow. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, Research, Genetic resources, Adaptive and integrated management, Deforestation and forest degradation ID: 3609850 -
ArticleJournal articleA multidimensional strategy for promoting sustainable community forestry and human wellbeing in México
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Impacts of globalization, climate change, biodiversity loss and socioeconomic conditions are important challenges for achieving sustainable community forestry development in Mexico. These challenges have created the need for building capacities in forest ejidos and communities (common property land), since they are who live with effects of any action in their communities. For that, it was necessary to apply a participatory strategic management model (different to traditional processes) in forest ejidos and communities for sustainable development. The model included: a) Multisearch Conference, which is a participatory and decision-making of "bottom up" process, and b) participatory strategic management model for the competitiveness of community forest enterprises. The integral model is based on three principles: strategic thinking, holistic vision, and participatory democracy. It includes strategies for designing, implementing, and monitoring strategic plans for managing sustainable forestry development. The application of the model allowed to the local people better motivation and appropriation levels of participatory decision making processes for driving their own development. Examples of outputs of this model are: a) Participatory strategic master plan for sustainable forestry development in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico; b) Integral forestry development project of the forest Ejido “El Largo and Anexas”, Madera, Chihuahua, Mexico (the largest forest ejido in Mexico), and c) Forest Productive Chain “Baja Tarahumara, S.C.”, Urique, Chihuahua, Mexico. In sum, the participatory strategic model promoted anticipatory and self-managed sustainable community forestry development. The model represents a paradigm shift in order to get sustainable community forestry development. Key words: forest management model, community forestry development, participatory strategic planning, forestry Chihuahua, rural development ID: 3480975
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BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
2021Also available in:
No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookRussian Federation: Meat sector review
Country highlights prepared under the FAO/EBRD Cooperation
2014Also available in:
World food demand has seen massive changes, including a shift from staple foods to animal proteins and vegetable oils. In the short to medium term, this trend in global food demand will continue. There will be an increased demand for vegetable oils, meat, sugar, dairy products and livestock feed made from coarse grains and oilseed meals. There are numerous mid-term forecasts for the Russian Federation’s meat sector. Most of them agree on the following trends: (i) the consumption of poultry and p ork meat will increase; (ii) the consumption of beef will decrease or stabilize; and (iii) the Russian Federation will remain a net importer of meat on the world market. According to OECD and FAO projections, meat imports from the Russian Federation will decrease from 3 to 1.3 million tonnes, owing to an anticipated growth in domestic chicken meat and pork production. The country’s share in global meat imports is anticipated to decrease from 12 percent in 2006–2010, to 4 percent in 2021. While t he Russian Federation will continue to play an important role in the international meat market, it will fall from its position as the largest meat importing country in 2006–2010 to the fourth largest global meat importer by 2021, behind Japan, sub-Saharan African countries, and Saudi Arabia. -
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.