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    Demand for wood and wood products within the Asia and Pacific region, and exports of wood products from the region, are growing, particularly through rising interest in the forest-based bioeconomy. Wood supply to meet this demand needs to be sustainable, to address climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty and economic development challenges. In the face of these developments, at the 36th Session of the FAO Regional Conference, Member States requested stronger work on the sustainable production and consumption of wood. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is also a high priority for the region: some 500 million hectares of land in the Asia and Pacific region is considered degraded and current national goals aim to restore at least 185 million hectares.Sustainable wood supply (SWS) from part of this restored land can contribute to FLR goals by regenerating and better managing natural forests, through large-scale and small-scale plantations and woodlots on degraded land, and by integrating trees in farming in agroforestry systems. This Issue Brief summarizes the deliberations of a RegionalDialogue on Integrating Sustainable Wood Supply and Forest and Landscape Restoration in Asia and the Pacific, held on 2 October 2023 in conjunction with the 30th Session of theAsia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) in Sydney, Australia.The Dialogue found that enabling conditions for SWS and FLR are similar, providing opportunities to increase investment in FLR by producing wood in support of restoration goals. Realizing these opportunities will require actions in landscapes and along value chains resourced from public and private finance. Policymakers across the region can drive these actions through developing and implementing enabling policies, fostering collaborative learning, technical packages and capacity building, mobilizing finance to support all forms of SWS and FLR, and engaging small-scale actors in SWS and FLR.
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    Promoting Private Sector Investments in Sustainable Forestry: Expert Workshop on Financial and Institutional Innovation for Reducing the Risks of Private Sector Investments in Sustainable Forestry 2016
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    This workshop was organized in the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) led initiative on “Financial and institutional risk mitigation and management strategies”. This initiative stems from the lack of significant funding for the forest sector in key areas of intervention such as forest plantations, natural forest management, small and medium forest enterprises, local and community forestry, and large‐scale forest investment projects including REDD+, whi le private capital is available for investments. Underlying efficient business models can bring substantial financial returns to investors in all these activities, but many traditional investors are still reluctant to invest.
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    FAO Partnerships working for the Sustainable Development Goals – Advocacy and awareness raising
    Working for the Sustainable Development Goals
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    The media plays a vital role in creating awareness of the challenges we face. As partners, they can take the lead in communicating to their audiences issues that are central to the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), such as food security and nutrition, agricultural productivity and livelihood resilience. Since 2012, FAO has established a total of fifteen media partnerships, with the goal of increasing visibility for areas of its mandate and the goal of Zero Hunger. These partnerships bolster the Organization’s ability to inform, explain, engage and mobilize resources to foster a global transition to sustainable food and agriculture systems that leave no one behind.

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