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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBuilding a forest-based bioeconomy to halt climate change and achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
A statement from the ACSFI
2021Also available in:
No results found.The Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based Industries (ACSFI) is a statutory body that guides the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on issues concerning the sustainable production, utilization and consumption of forest products. It also serves as a forum for dialogue between FAO and the private sector, identifying strategic actions across forest sector value-chains in order to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this statement, the ACSFI and its members call upon FAO, its member countries, the private sector and other stakeholders to jointly strengthen their commitment to building back better in a post-COVID-19 world, through fostering the ongoing development of a forest-based bioeconomy, wherein sustainable production, utilization, and consumption amount to a key strategy in halting climate change, achieving multiple SDGs, ensuring inclusive growth and safeguarding the livelihoods of billions of people dependent on forests and forest-based industries. -
BookletWhite paper: Build back better in a post-COVID-19 world – Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans
Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme
2020Also available in:
This white paper aims to provide Northern and Southern Development partners and decision-makers with a better understanding of a) why spillover of disease from wildlife to humans occurs, and why these zoonotic disease outbreaks can spread and become epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19, and b) what they can do to prevent, detect and respond to future spillover events, with a special focus on priority interventions at the human-wildlife-livestock interfaces. It has been produced as part of the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, which will deliver critical lessons on how to prevent, detect and respond to future spillover events with appropriate national and transboundary policies and practices in the context of the SWM partner sites. The SWM Programme is a major international initiative to improve the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in the forest, savannah, and wetland ecosystems. Field projects are being implemented in 13 African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. The aim is to: improve how wildlife hunting is regulated; increase the supply of sustainably produced meat products and farmed fish; strengthen the management capacities of indigenous and rural communities; and reduce demand for wild meat, particularly in towns and cities. It is being implemented by a dynamic consortium of four partners with expertise in wildlife conservation and food security: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). For more information, please visit the SWM Programme website: www.swm-programme.info. -
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
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