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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetResult Asia-Pacific - Restoring and Sustaining Landscapes Together Asia
A Regional Programmatic Framework for Forest and Landscape Restoration
2024Also available in:
No results found.RESULT Asia-Pacific aims to realize a consolidated regional restoration target of at least 100 million hectares of degraded forests, forestland, agriculture, urban and other lands across Asia by 2030. The Framework was designed in line with the Asia-Pacific Regional Strategy and Action Plan on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Asia and the Pacific is home to 4.3 billion people and is undergoing rapid economic growth with rising demand for food and natural resources. However, an estimated more than 500 million hectares of the land and resource base is degraded. Degraded landscapes provide diminished goods and ecosystem services, food security, livelihood opportunities, and climate change resilience. In 2017, the Asia Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) endorsed an Asia-Pacific Regional Strategy and Action Plan for FLR (RSAP). Many of the countries have significant restoration targets and ongoing efforts. However, the efforts are far below the scale required to transform the region’s degraded landscapes and meet national and global aspirations related to sustainable development, food security, health, biodiversity and climate change. This Regional Programmatic Framework for FLR seeks to advance the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-30 in Asia in line with the strategic priorities of the RSAP. It aims for scaled-up high-quality FLR on the ground through a common overarching vision, innovative partnerships and financing, contextbased multi-disciplinary approaches, and a joint monitoring protocol. -
MeetingForest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) Asia Investment Forum
Bangkok, Thailand, 15-16 November 2023
2023Also available in:
No results found.Global restoration commitments cover around one billion hectares. Implementing these requires investments of up to USD 1,670 billion (for 10 years) . Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is gaining momentum in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, co-led by UNEP and FAO, to contribute to the targets of the Bonn Challenge, Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, Land Degradation Neutrality, and Global Land Initiative among others. Restoration of the world’s degraded landscapes is critical for ensuring a healthy natural resource base for more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems. FAO has been assisting Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste to scale up FLR through a Regional Technical Cooperation Programme (regional TCP) project. A key planned output of this project is a donors and partners’ conference for scaling up restoration. A Regional Programmatic Framework for FLR building on the RSAP has been prepared as part of this project, and a Regional FLR Network of implementing partners is being shaped to help countries meet their restoration commitments and visions. FAO and partners aim to enhance and strengthen finance partnerships and coordinated investments in FLR, including through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), the private sector, project aggregation, blended financing, and other emerging opportunities. The FLR Asia Investment Forum is a part of this effort. -
Book (stand-alone)Advancing the role of natural regeneration in large-scale forest and landscape restoration in the Asia-Pacific region
19-21 June 2017, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China
2018Also available in:
No results found.There are numerous global, regional, national and even subnational targets for increasing forest area and forest restoration. In light of these global targets and emerging ambitious national commitments, it is imperative to develop low-cost strategies and techniques for landscape restoration. The most widely used restoration strategies involving planting of tree seedlings are often costly and their application for restoring vast expanses of degraded forest lands in the region may be limited. Case studies and experiences with natural regeneration from the region have shown that natural regeneration significantly reduces the cost of restoration in areas that meet certain conditions. Native species that are adapted to the prevailing conditions re-establish on their own with some assistance, achieving accelerated growth in accordance with natural succession, leading to the recovery of native ecosystems. Restoration strategies based on natural regeneration also provide low-cost opportunities for conserving biodiversity and enhancing ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration and watershed protection. Despite these economic and environmental advantages, natural regeneration is often overlooked when restoration policies and programmes are designed for a number of reasons. These include lack of its recognition as a viable restoration option; perverse incentives favouring clearing of young secondary growth for plantation development or other land uses; lack of institutional support by government agencies and other organizations; unclear tenure and property rights; lack of incentives for local communities; and uncertainty about the restoration processes and outcomes. This publication aims to share information on the outcome of the regional workshop, entitled ‘Promoting the Role of Natural Regeneration in Large-scale Forest and Landscape Restoration: Challenges and Opportunities, held in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China, from 19 to 21 June 2017, which was organized to better understand the challenges and opportunities for natural forest regeneration and to promote its inclusion as a major component of large-scale restoration initiatives.
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