30th Session of the Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC)

About LACFC

Based on national and regional priorities of the countries, the FAO regional initiatives, and the international and dialogues and agreements based on forestry items, the mandate of the LACFC is to advice FAO on the forestry programme to be developed in the Region. This includes the formulation of policies for the sustainable management of forests and wildlife and to analyze, facilitate and coordinate their execution at a regional level, change of information and, in general, through special bodies (technical cooperation networks), advises on suitable practices and actions with regard to technical problems and makes appropriate recommendations in relation to these matters.

List of Documents

• FO: LACFC/2017/REP: Report of the Thirtieth Session of the Commission

• FO: LACFC/2017/1 E: Provisional Agenda. Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission,  30th Session

• FO: LACFC/2017/2 E: The state of the Forest Sector in the Region
  

• FO: LACFC/2017/3 E: FAO´s report on follow-up activities to the recommendations and requests of the 29th Session of the Commission

• FO: LACFC/2017/4 E: Priority themes for the 35th Session of the Regional Conference (Bahamas, 2018)

• FO: LACFC/2017/5 E: Committee on World Food Security (CFS). XI Report of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE): "Sustainable forestry for food security and nutrition”

• FO: LACFC/2017/6 E: FRA 2020 and efforts for streamlining international forest reporting

• FO: LACFC/2017/7 E: Global processes (UNFCCC COP22, CBD COP13, UNFF12) including the Strategic Plan for the International Arrangement on Forests and the 2017 – 2020 Quadrennial Work Programme (4PoW)
  

• FO: LACFC/2017/8 E: A new strategic document for FAO in forestry

• FO: LACFC/2017/9 E: Forests in the SDG (Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management)

• FO: LACFC/2017/10 E: Governance strengthening of forest resources (intersectoral coordination, gender equity and ethnic and cultural relevance)

• FO: LACFC/2017/11 E: Forest concessions for sustainable forest management (traceability of sustainable production)

• FO: LACFC/2017/12 E: Forest protection: i) Integral Fire Management, ii) Forest health, iii) preventive approach to avoiding illegal logging.

• FO: LACFC/2017/13 E: Association of small forest producers and microenterprise development

• FO: LACFC/2017/14 E: Monitoring deforestation and forest degradation

• FO:LACFC/2017/15 E: Mechanisms and economic incentives for: i) Mitigation of climate change effects, ii) Protection of biodiversity (wildlife) and conservation of ecosystemic services, and iii) Restoration of forests and landscapes

• FO: LACFC/2017/16 E: Inputs to FAO governance
  

Information Documents

• FO: LACFC-2017-Inf.1 E: Logistic Information

• FO: LACFC-2017-Inf.2 E: Provisional Timetable. Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission,  30th Session

• FO: LACFC-2017-Inf.3 E: List of Documents. Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission,  30th Session