The Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism

Christophe Besacier

Christophe Besacier, FAO Forestry Officer, Coordinator of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism, explains the importance of landscape restoration and the impact it has on biodiversity, the livelihood of communities and wildlife, and long-term sustainability.

Fred Stolle

Fred Stolle, Deputy director of World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Forests Program, explains the importance of monitoring restoration and how the guide helps monitoring FLR by selecting appropriate indicators when designing a monitoring system.

Julien Noël Rakotoarisoa

Julien Noël Rakotoarisoa, Project manager for Madagascar, explains how FAO supports the implementation of technical cooperations for Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) initiatives in Madagascar. He also foreshadows Madagascar’s future plans involving GEF-7.

Meyer Antonio

Meyer Antonio, Government Focal Point for TRI, describes his expectations for The Restoration Initiative Week and highlights which topics meet his country's TRI project needs.

Liu Jing

Liu Jing, TRI Project manager for China, explains how the TRI capacity-building topics fit with the needs of the project in China and help strengthen the national team, she also describes the successes and remaining challenges.

Paul Matiku

Paul Matiku, Executive director of Nature Kenya, explains how the TRI capacity-building topics fulfill the needs of the project in Kenya and help strengthen the national team’s efforts.

Chadi Mohanna

Chadi Mohanna, Director of Rural Development and Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture of Lebanon, highlights the work that FLRM has done with the Ministry of Agriculture in Lebanon. He calls attention to the Sixth Mediterranean Forest Week held in April 2019 in Brummana and describes Lebanon’s restoration ambitions.

Tim Christophersen

Tim Christophersen, Coordinator, Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment, describes the challenges and opportunities of global forest and landscape restoration, and the role of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism.

Charles Victor Barber

Charles Barber, Director, Forest Legality Initiative, World Resources Institute, describes some of FAO’s comparative advantages that position it as a key player in a crowded landscape of global action on forest and landscape restoration.

Faustine Zoveda

Faustine Zoveda, Forestry officer at FAO, explains what is FLRM during the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration Meeting in Bonn held in December 2017.

Kathleen Buckingham

Kathleen Buckingham, former Research Associate for the Global Restoration Initiative at the World Resources Institute, speaks about what makes FAO stand out in the global forest restoration movement, highlighting the critical importance of FAO’s partnerships in implementing restoration on the ground.

Chadi Mohanna

Chadi Mohanna, Director of Rural Development and Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Lebanon, on FAO and the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism.

Catalina Santamaria

Catalina Santamaria, Program Manager, Forest Biodiversity, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), speaks about FAO and the global forest restoration movement, and the critical importance of FAO’s partnerships in this area.

Peter Besseau

Peter Besseau, Chair, Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) speaks about the importance of partnerships in forest and landscape restoration.