Mécanisme forêts et paysans

World Forestry Congress (WFC), 2–6 May 2022

The Forest and Farm Facility partners participate in the WFC 2022 to amplify the voice of smallholder families, indigenous peoples and local communities and highlight their role as positive agents of change for resilient food systems and forest landscapes.

Sub-theme 4: Forests and human health and well-being: revisiting the connections  

Under Sub-theme 4, the FFF is leading two sessions:

Session 3 – Forests for securing livelihoods

Date: 3 May 2022 | 16:00 KST - 17:30 KST

This session is co-organized with RECOFTC.

Expected outcome: for policy makers, (sub) national government institutions, researchers, private sectors enterprises, and financial sectors to learn about recent developments, lessons and good practices to renew their engagement with forest communities, forest and farm producer organizations, Indigenous Peoples and other forest stakeholders to invest in strengthening livelihoods in sustainable forest landscapes in ways that enhance human health and wellbeing for all

 Watch the event's recording English | French | Spanish | Korean

 Photos here

Session 4 – Forests for social cohesion 

Date: 4 May 2022 | 11:00 KST - 12:30 KST

Expected outcometo increase and promote understanding of why social cohesion in forest landscapes is important, how it works, what the relations are with the urban environments and what can be done to enhance further support from governments and other resource partners recognizing its contributions to human health and wellbeing as well as multiple SDGs.

Watch the event's recording English | French | Spanish | Korean

Photos here

 

Special Event: Rural finance, forest and farm producers and Indigenous Peoples at the centre of the "Green Recovery"

Date: 5 May 2022 | 11:30 KST - 13:30 KST

The FFF is organizing this special event in collaboration with FFAST AAA, BMZ and SIDA.

Watch the event's recording  English | French | Spanish | Korean

Event action points:

  1. More than eighty percent of the world’s food in value terms is produced by smallholders and family farms and they are crucial actors, therefore, for ecosystem restoration, climate mitigation and assuring food security. The organization of smallholders and family farmers into forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) is essential to realize their full potential.
  2. FFPOs need strengthening in their capacity to link the sustainable management of forests and farms to secure markets and enterprises that depend on maintaining diverse and complex land-use mosaics.
  3. The capability of banks and impact investors to address the needs of FFPOs must be improved, including how they deal with risk in forestry, agroforestry and agriculture, and FFPOs must improve their financial literacy. Mechanisms to support FFPOs with their “first loans” to create track records in financial institutions would be a huge steppingstone for both parties.
  4. Concrete schemes are needed to secure rural women’s rights to lands and forests within collective right systems such as community forestry. Innovative mechanisms should be employed to give rural women direct access to climate finance and other dedicated financial schemes.
  5. Payments for the public local and global goods provided by FFPOs in maintaining forest landscapes while hugely contributing to providing food security are required to ensure their sustainable business cases.
  6. Platforms at the national or subnational levels should be created featuring banks, FFPOs, value-chain actors and knowledge agencies to increase cross-actor learning, identify lessons, and improve mutual understanding and cooperation.
  7. International learning and exchanges on rural and climate finance are important for enabling national and regional FFPOs, the financial sector, governments and development cooperation to speak to each other and find solutions.