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MeetingForestry in a new landscape: Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
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No results found.The world is experiencing a number of complex and sometimes interrelated transitions, including moving toward new geopolitical and economic balances, toward more urbanized societies, toward unprecedented technological change and toward a lower carbon and more sustainable future. At the same time, the world is experiencing more frequent and more severe climate-related disasters as well as demands for social equity across many spheres – between rich and poor, between those who have benefited from globalization and those who have not, and across genders and among generations. These demands are being expressed with increasing intensity and are reflected in new political realities. The transitions have created a markedly different world compared to the turn of the millennium and even since the completion of the Asia-Pacific Forest Sector Outlook Study in 2010; thus the landscape that forestry operates in is both new and rapidly evolving. Meeting the challenge of managing forests and forestr y through these transitions and the risks they entail – including ensuring that forestry proactively contributes to shaping change – will require sound strategic thinking, wise investment and broad cooperation, among stakeholders and at international levels. -
MeetingSecretariat note: Guidelines for using forest concession to manage public forests. Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
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No results found.The importance of forests in global sustainable development has been largely acknowledged by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. In order to ensure that forests deliver their socio-economic and environmental benefits, it is crucial to expand sustainable forest management (SFM) based on the best available practices. Although progress towards SFM has occurred, the global proportion of land area covered by forests is still in decline and many countries in Asia and the Pacific are still sustaining significant deforestation and forest degradation. -
MeetingNew landscapes for community forestry. Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
2017Also available in:
No results found.Community-based forestry (CBF) is broadly defined as initiatives, sciences, policies, institutions and processes that are intended to increase the role of local people in governing and managing forest resources. CBF takes many forms, e.g. joint forest management, participatory conservation, partial or full devolution of management rights and private ownership. It includes both collaborative regimes (forestry practiced on land that has some form of communal tenure and requires collective action) and smallholder forestry (on land that is generally privately owned). Throughout Asia and the Pacific, CBF is considered an important modality to contribute to addressing deforestation and degradation. In reality, the potential of CBF can go beyond this.
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