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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEnhancing the capacity of the forestry sector to control and manage forest fires in Jordan تعزيز قدرة قطاع الغابات على السيطرة على حرائق الغابات وإدارتها في الأردن 2023
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No results found.Forest fires are among the most important challenges facing the agricultural sector in general and forestry sector in particular, and it is increasingly affecting the limited forest cover in Jordan, local communities’ livelihoods and their safety. The data shared by the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in Jordan showed a gradual increase in the forest fires and the impacted area during the past 20 years, with observed increasing trends in forest fires’ frequency and severity. In this context, the Government of Jordan has requested the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to provide technical assistance in enhancing the capacity to manage forest fires in Jordan. Therefore, FAO, in cooperation with the Forestry Department and technicians in Rome and the Regional Office, has responded to the request of the MoA to support the national efforts in controlling forest fires and alleviate their effects by offering a Technical Cooperation Project Facility to improve the sector’s capacity and contribute to the national development process to conserve and sustainably manage Jordan forest resources and ecosystems with involvement of key stakeholders to better contribute to biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction, food security, arresting desertification and land degradation and climate change effects. In this factsheet, the reader will be familiarized with the project's objectives, outputs and activities. تعتبر حرائق الغابات من أهم التحديات التي تواجه القطاع الزراعي بشكل عام و قطاع الغابات بشكل خاص، و هي من المشاكل المتنامية في الأردن في الآونة الأخيرة لتأثيرها السلبي على الغطاء الحرجي المحدود و سبل عيش المجتمعات المحلية و سلامتها. و تظهر بيانات ادارة الغابات في وزارة الزراعة زيادة تدريجية في حرائق الغابات والمناطق المتضررة خلال العشرين عاماً الماضية مع زيادة ملحوظة في اتجاهات حرائق الغابات وشدتها . وفي هذا السياق توجهت الحكومة الأردنية بطلب دعم من منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة لتقديم المساعدة الفنية في إدارة حرائق الغابات في الأردن . بناءاً على ذلك قامت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة من خلال فريق العمل في المنظمة بالتعاون مع قسم الغابات في روما والفنيين في المكتب الإقليميى باعداد مسودة مشروع تعاون تقني حول تعزيز وبناء قدرة قطاع الغابات في الاردن لادارة ومواجهة حرائق الغابات و استجابت لطلب الحكومة. حيث يهدف المشروع الى تقييم الوضع الحالي لإدارة حرائق الغابات بالتنسيق مع الإدارات المعنية و تحسين نظم الوقاية من الحرائق وإدارتها وبناء قدرات الدفاع المحلي لمواجهة حرائق الغابات وخاصة بما يتعلق بشأن التحقيق في أسباب ومرتكبي حرائق الغابات -
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Book (stand-alone)Guidelines on Fire Management in Temperate and Boreal Forests 2002
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No results found.These fire management guidelines are designed to provide a base for policy makers and managers at various levels to develop programs and projects in which the specific national, socio-economic, and natural problems related to fire in temperate and boreal natural and planted forests will be addressed. The scope of the guidelines is to assist countries in developing programs for reducing damage caused by fire; and to help forest managers and rural residents to safely use and take advantage of the beneficial effects of fire in land-use systems. The guidelines are in accordance with the FAO policy and take into account the recommendations of the FAO Meeting on Public Policies Affecting Forest Fires (FAO 1999) and the FAO/ITTO International Expert Meeting on Forest Fire Management (FAO 2001a) and Legal Frameworks for Forest Fire Management: International Agreements and National Legislation (FAO 2002a). The guidelines also address the objectives of the United Nations International Strategy f or Disaster Reduction (ISDR) that has been established by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN 1999), particularly the ISDR Interagency Task Force on Natural Disaster Reduction, Working Group on Wildland Fire. The Working Group on Wildland Fire supports the UN and other international stakeholders by providing an inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary global platform for policy support. The guidelines recognize that many forest fires origina te in agricultural and pastoral systems; and in degraded vegetation, outside of forest areas. Therefore, fire management on former and degraded forest lands may help to re-establish productive forests and to safeguard the success of reforestation programs.
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