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ArticleForests in a post-COVID economy: lessons from Thailand
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a global pandemic that has caused enormous effects on human lives and the global economy. Political aspirations and discourses have been placing hopes in forestry sector to contribute to green recovery in a post-pandemic context. However, there is limited information and evidence of COVID-19 impacts on the forestry sector and the role forestry sector can play in the green recovery transition. Using Thailand as a case study, this research examines and analyzes the impacts of COVID-19 on the forestry sector, and identifies some areas for forestry sector to contribute in green recovery. Data was collected through desk reviews, key expert interviews and field visits. The results indicate that forestry sector operations in terms of plantations, forestation, and reforestation have slowed down. Forest-based industries and timber trade has been affected due to delay in transport and lengthening of production processes. Forest-based tourism was negatively affected with communities losing the main source of the income. The study concludes that forests are safety nets and serve multiple functions from supporting livelihoods of local communities to regulating the environment, to providing raw materials to forest industry and trade. There is a potential for the forestry sector to utilize its full potential for green recovery measures. However, to make it happen, there is a need for a fresh debate in optimally utilizing forests with forest science and land-use planning in ways that offer safety nets, conserves resources, and generates economy. In addition, it is equally important to foster an enabling policy environment by tackling conflicting policy provisions, embedding social protection mechanisms, and strengthening the tenure security of stakeholders, particularly of local communities. Likewise, targeted investment and financing measures on forestry sector needs to be vested to ensure the green recovery transition in a post-COVID context. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, landuse, safety nets, tenure security, local communities ID: 3623674 -
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. -
Book (stand-alone)Rapid growth of selected Asian economies. Lessons and implications for agriculture and food security: China and India
Policy Assistance Series 1/2
2006Also available in:
This publication is part of a three-volume diagnostic study on lessons learned and implications for agriculture and food security in the context of rapid growth in selected Asian economies: China, India, Republic of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam. This second volume presents the country studies for China and India. It discusses experiences in agricultural development and economic growth and the implications of rapid growth in these countries for their own economies and those of other countries in the region and beyond. The implications of and the lessons learned from agricultural and rural development in the world's two largest nations are expected to be of interest to relevant governments, policy professionals and development practitioners in the formulation of policies and strategies for restructuring their agriculture sectors in response to changing market and trade opportunities and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of poverty and hunger eradication.
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