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The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have joined forces to protect West Africa's forests and help safeguard the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on them.
The three institutions will carry out a five-year project aimed at strengthening sustainable forest and land management, addressing transboundary forest threats, maximising the livelihoods of forest-depended communities, and building climate resilience across 15 countries in West Africa.
The project - to be implemented by ECOWAS with financial support of over $8 million from Sida and technical...
Voices from the field: Sustainable Forest Management through Community Forestry in Colombia
04/04/2019
04/04/2019
Local communities are key forest stakeholders, and their involvement in decision-making and sustainable management of forests generates positive outcomes for livelihoods, rural development, and forest conservation. In particular, countries in Latin America are advancing in the process of developing the concepts of community forestry as a collaborative governance approach to forest management. The approach is also a crucial part of countries’ efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) and contribute to national and global action to combat climate change. For example in Colombia, it has been estimated that more than one million people depend on forests for their...
This article originally appeared on the UN-REDD Programme website. Click here to go to the original post.
Nine years since the launch of the UN-REDD Viet Nam Phase I Programme, Vietnam has marked a milestone at the end of 2018, by closing its Phase II Programme. What have these nine years achieved, and what has it meant for REDD+ in general and Vietnam in particular?
“Graduation from the REDD+ readiness phase” is the short answer, but for Vietnam, it is more than that. REDD+ readiness has paved the way for transformational change in the forestry and land use sectors. Back in 2009, when REDD+ was...
Mekong, Mumbai, and Beyond: Regionally-Developed Tool Expands to Support Global Forest Monitoring
18/03/2019
18/03/2019
This article originally appeared on the UN-REDD Programme website. Click here to go to the original post.
“Land cover mapping in the lower Mekong has been challenging in the past, based primarily on outdated maps using different criteria,” said Dr. David Saah, Professor at the University of San Francisco and Managing Principal of the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG). Competing objectives, priorities and resource limitations, in the Mekong and beyond, often mean differential treatment and sometimes omission of key land cover features. For example, forest ministries focus on mapping forest biodiversity, structure, condition, and use. Agriculture departments typically mask out forest cover, displaying features...
Brazil presents preliminary results from the National Forest Inventory carried out in Caçador
15/03/2019
15/03/2019
On March 14, the Director of Research and Information, Joberto Freitas, presented preliminary data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) at an event held in the municipality of Caçador, Santa Catarina. The meeting gathered representatives of the Municipal Secretariat for Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, City Hall, as well as representatives of forestry production sector and academia. Caçador is the first municipality in the country to participate in the survey conducted by the Brazilian Forest Service. The initiative was a pilot project to adapt the NFI methodology on the municipal scale. The existence of the Caçador Forests Model (Bosque Modelo de Caçador)...