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ArticleFood security and pro-poor-oriented forest and landscape management: Evidence from initiatives in Sri Lanka
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Sri Lanka is a global biodiversity hotspot and boasts a large land extent occupied by agriculture and agroforestry. Forest and tree-based solutions offer opportunities to reduce rural poverty and food and nutrition insecurity, exacerbated in rural regions that are more vulnerable to climate change. Accordingly, enhancing forestry as a means to improving rural conditions through livelihood opportunities is considered by the government as an important measure. This article reports the initial results from such a project that considers piloting food and medicinal forests and related value chains. It presents the assessment of socio- economic impacts of past forestry management interventions that could help develop a roadmap for innovative food-security and pro-poor oriented forest and landscape management practices. It also describes the efforts made to ensure the sustainability of project results. The project results can help in promoting community-based forest management that can be resource efficient and socially inclusive within the targeted populations of the post-conflict region. Ensuring social stability through such forestry interventions and enhancing community knowledge on landscape management has long-term favourable implications on creating a green economy. It advances efforts as part of the United Nations Decades on Ecosystem Restoration and Family Farming. Keywords: Food security, Nutrition, Species enrichment, forest business development, Sri Lanka ID: 3487086 -
DocumentFrom projects to landscapes: FAO/WRI tools for monitoring progress and impacts of Forest and Landscape Restoration
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Restoring degraded lands is a key strategy for mitigating climate change, improving ecosystem health, and sustaining goods and services for people and planet. As part of the Bonn Challenge, New York Declaration on Forests, and other international initiatives, countries are encouraged to collectively restore at least 350 million hectares of degraded lands. Also, 2021-2030 has just been declared the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Monitoring restoration progress is important for ensuring that restoration activities stay on track to meet local and global goals. Monitoring also provides evidence for communicating successes, which will attract further investments for restoration projects, thereby scaling up efforts. In this context, WRI and FAO have jointly developed a series of tools to help with monitoring restoration. First is a guidebook for practitioners on discussing objectives and impacts and deciding which indicators to consider for monitoring their restoration projects, entitled The Road to Restoration: A Guide to Identifying Priorities and Indicators for Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration. Alongside this publication, the organizations prepared an e-learning course within the FAO e-learning academy and a web application called AURORA (Assessment, Understanding and Reporting of Restoration Actions), which facilitate the decision-making process and support users is selecting desired impacts and their indicators, setting up their goals, and monitoring progress. To complement this process, the publication Mapping Together: A Guide to Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration using Collect Earth Mapathons was produced to help project managers organize data collection events that establish baselines and monitor progress focusing on biophysical indicators. Here, we briefly present the FAO/WRI set of tools that will facilitate monitoring at different stages and will contribute to more robust monitoring and reporting processes. Keywords: Monitoring and data collection|Landscape management ID: 3623051 -
Book (series)Restoring the Earth - The next decade
Unasylva No. 252 - Vol. 71 2020/1
2020This Unasylva issue aims at showcasing forest and landscape restoration (FLR) opportunities and recent developments that have the power to upscale restoration, in order to achieving the Bonn Challenge pledge and other national and international commitments (Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) Post-2020 Agenda, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Land Degradation Neutrality, Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)) and addressing the needs of the UN Decade 2021-2030 on Ecosystem Restoration. The content adresses thematics of relevance to various audiences: i) flagship restoration initiatives that differ from the so-called “business-as-usual” as they channel more funds, better empower local stakeholders and provide enhanced technical assistance through partners’ coalitions; ii) technical advances that can spread FLR and have a huge potential to be mainstreamed for different reasons (low cost, adaptability, relevance to many ecosystems and contexts, ease of implementation…); iii) the enabling factors for restoration, i.e. coordination, policy environment, resources, knowledge and capacities, as these are the enabling conditions for action to take place on the ground.
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