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ArticleMaking local forest-based businesses bankable
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Investments in sustainable forest management and forest-based value chains have major climate and development benefits. These investments are critical to drive a transition towards a greener, healthier and more resilient future, and achieve the SDGs. Public resources alone are not enough to achieve these goals and now, more than ever before, it is essential to leverage private capital. Dialogues between local forest producers and private investors have clarified the constraints that developing countries face in mobilizing private investments. A key constraint is the limited pipeline of project proposals that meet minimum investment criteria, provide sufficient detail, and/or have clearly assessed risks and ways to manage them. A consistent recommendation from such dialogues is that small and medium forest producers need improved skills to properly value their assets, position and integrate into value chains, scale up their operations, and develop sound business plans. FAO and partners have taken on the challenge to promote inclusiveness and sustainability in forest value chains and finance. In this paper we summarize the content of a 10-module learning guide to help producers develop bankable business plans. We then discuss some lessons learned from supporting local forest producers in Kenya and Uganda in the application of the guide. Among these lessons are aspects of business planning that are especially important to support forest and landscape restoration. We then offer recommendations on what development actors can do to scale up the development of bankable business plans in the forest sector. Keywords: forest-based businesses; sustainable forest management; private investments; business development; bankability. ID: 3486959 -
ArticleThe SFI conservation impact project: supporting forest-based solutions for climate- change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.SFI has provided certification standards for sustainable forest practices and forest fiber procurement since 1995, and has experienced tremendous growth, such that SFI’s Forest Management Standard is the most widely applied single forest management standard in the world, with over 365 million certified acres (147 million hectares). Seeing the need for better understanding of the conservation related outcomes from decades of sustainable management, SFI initiated the Conservation Impact Project in 2016 to enumerate outcomes across the critical themes of climate change, biodiversity, and water. Findings of these collaborative research projects reveal the critical role of these certified forests toward landscape-scale biodiversity, wide ranging bird species in decline, and carbon capture and storage. These findings make clear that SFI Certified forests contribute significantly and uniquely to forest conservation outcomes in the United States and Canada and suggest the potential importance of sustainably managed certified forests in meeting global conservation objectives. Keywords: sustainable forest management, climate, carbon, conservation ID: 3478897 -
ArticleA transition framework for integration of non-wood forest products into the bioeconomy
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Non-wood forest products (NWFP) are essential to the health and livelihoods of billions of people and are increasingly preferred by consumers worldwide. The plants, fungi, lichens, and animals that provide these products are essential for global biological diversity and are the raw materials for multi-billion-dollar global industries. While overexploitation of these resources often was linked to poverty and food scarcity in lower- income countries, today, unsustainable resource use is also linked to global market demand and even pressure from recreational harvesting in high-income countries. To ensure present and future production, without compromising forest health and resiliency or the people who rely on and benefit from NWFP, these resources should be included at all levels of forest management. The concept of a bioeconomy, which involves using science-based knowledge for sustainable production of food, energy, and other renewable bio-products, provides a framework for ‘green’ growth. NWFP are produced in myriad of systems and realigning these to a bioeconomy framework offers opportunities to refocus and strengthen efforts to achieve a sustainable future with forests that work locally and can be scaled up to achieve global Sustainable Development Goals. We provide contemporary examples of NWFP and the conditions that support their integration into the bioeconomy. From these cases, we identify factors that may stimulate the transition to a bioeconomy with NWFP. Keywords: Forest development, sustainable transformation, economic transitions, nontimber forest products ID: 3480571
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