Knowledge Exchange on Forest Monitoring for Transparent Commodity Value Chains
Hybrid Event, 26/11/2024 - 28/11/2024
This knowledge exchange was an important opportunity to share experiences, advance learning and enable collaboration on geospatial information needs and forest monitoring for transparent commodity value chains and associated regulations (e.g., EUDR). Participants came together to consider best practice, replicable solutions and coordinate on identifying the critical remaining shared gaps and needs.
Participants were those overseeing geospatial datasets at Forest Departments and Ministries of Agriculture from key producer countries, as well as consumer countries and other international entities. Forest countries participating included Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Peru, and Vietnam.
This knowledge exchange was part of a wider global exchange. The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) and its lead partner the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), under the UK-funded Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) Programme, hosted a collaborative south-south knowledge exchange forum on national forest monitoring throughout the whole week - Enhancing Forest Monitoring and Collaboration; A South-South Knowledge Exchange [https://www.fao.org/gfoi/news-events/events/events-detail/en/c/1713242/].
You can see and download a Executive Summary of the Knowledge Exchange on Forest Monitoring for Transparent Commodity Value Chains here.
You can see all the presentations here, or follow the links inserted in the agenda.
You can view all the pictures from the event here.
Agenda:
TUESDAY, 26 November | The Austria Room. Lebanon Room for breakout. Goal for the day: Provide an overview and share lessons learned, best practices, replicable solutions and gaps, needs relating to compliance with regulations and geospatial information, traceability, due diligence, measurements/monitoring and information needs around legality | ||
Time | Item | Name / Lead |
10:00 | R. d’Annunzio (FAO) A. Haouchine (EU DG-ENV) | |
10.30 | Country presentations, reflections and dialogue – general lessons learned in preparation for regulations Kenya – Global Coffee Platform (30mins, including Q&A) Brazil – AgroBrasil+ Sustentavel (30mins, including Q&A) Colombia – Café de Colombia (30mins, including Q&A) |
G. Watene C. Saraiva A. Veru |
14.00 | Breakout: Data Readiness Group One – Austria Room, with interpretation This group will focus on the technical aspects of data preparation and application. It will cover topics including – data quality, traceability systems, geolocation of plots of land, maps of forests, deforestation and commodities, monitoring and measurement systems, convergence of evidence approach, and assessment framework on deforestation-free commodities. Will include discussion on FAO work on due diligence and risk mitigation - building upon various aspects such as geolocation, forest maps, deforestation data, and measurement systems - how to effectively use forest monitoring data within the due diligence process. | V. O’Brien A. Arnell F. Bernard R. Dannunzio M. Valbuena Perez
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15.30 | Continue breakout group on Data Readiness, including (in last e.g., 30mins) synthesising discussions into key points for relaying on Thursday – highlighting key shared gaps and needs identified, solutions, recommendations and any prioritisation, and identifying presenter |
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WEDNESDAY, 27 November | The Austria Room. Nigeria for breakout room. Goal for the day: Create a more detailed picture of shared experiences among forest countries and international partners on meeting information needs from demand-side regulations, and capacity development required for meeting these needs. Breakout groups focused on data governance | ||
Time | Item | Name / Lead |
10.00 | International initiatives in preparation for regulations (I) TEI: SAFE project (15 mins) TEI: Technical Facility (15 mins) Germany BLE (15 mins) FACT Dialogue (15 min) QA (30 mins) | J. Espinoza C. Riano N. Langner H. Djoudi |
11:30 | International initiatives in preparation for regulations (II) World AgroCommodities Project (15 mins) |
G. Sampson C. Sannier R. Colditz and T. De Marzo S. Tenorio Fenton |
14:00 | Breakout: Data Governance Group One – Austria Room with interpretation
These breakout groups will cover regulatory, ethical and governance-related topics for managing and sharing data. This will include themes such as data access, data ownership, data privacy, risk analysis, mitigation and the use of forest monitoring data within due diligence (including traceability systems), information needs linked to legality, and long-term sustainability of practices. | S. Pechevis S. Tenorio Fenton F. Bernard F. Stringer M. Valbuena Perez |
15:30 | Continue breakout group on Data Governance, including (in last e.g., 30mins) synthesising discussions into key points for relaying tomorrow – highlighting key shared gaps and needs identified, solutions, recommendations and any prioritisation, and identifying presenter |
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16:30 | Closing |
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THURSDAY, 28 November | The Austria Room. Goal for the day: Define and prioritise shared solutions and capacity development recommendations regarding information needs for demand-side deforestation-related regulations | ||
Time | Item | Name / Lead |
10:00 | Assigned speaker from each breakout groups gives presentation on summary of discussions (20-30mins each, covering both topics of data readiness and data governance) – including key gaps and needs identified, solutions, best practices, recommendations | Faruk Kwansah Nyame Charles Yem Bamo Helen Bellfield Koimé Kouacou |
11:30 | Interactive group session to confirm identified gaps/barriers and solutions/recommendations from the breakout group discussions, and indicate prioritisation | Benjamin Wielgosz (WRI) |
12:15 | Closing remarks |
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FINISH – afternoon available for attendees to arrange bilateral discussions, meetings | ||
This workshop is co-organized between the FAO and the Forest Data Partnership, hosted by the FAO, with funding from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland through the AIM4Forests Programme.
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