Forestry

Advancing sustainable wood value chains for improved livelihoods and climate resilience

Rome (Italy), Hybrid Event, 26/03/2025 - 27/03/2025

The SW4SW workshop “Advancing sustainable wood value chains for improved livelihoods and climate resilience” presented the results of the initiative’s six-years review, advanced the business case for inclusive and sustainable wood value chains, and explore complementarities and collaboration with other key actors in the forest international cooperation landscape.

This workshop, organized in collaboration with the Forest and Farm Facility and supported by Natural Resources Canada, will inform the strategic orientation of the SW4SW Initiative with a view to support partnerships and cooperation agreements to scale up action on the ground. 

Concept note and agenda

Meeting report

Presentations

Sheam Satkuru
ITTO — Advancing global sustainable wood use

Robert Nasi
Wood and the bioeconomy transition

Ewald Rametsteiner 
Bioeconomy

Loïc Brancheriau, Kévin Candelier, Jean Gérard, Marie-France Thévenon
Stocktaking of pathways to increase supply of sustainable wood from planted forests and trees to address bioeconomy needs

Marco Boscolo
Strengthening smallholder tree grower plantations and wood value chains in Tanzania

Prai Sudjit
Advancing sustainable wood value chains for improved livelihood and climate resilience

Agroforestry for wood production
Insights from multifunctional smallholder tree farming systems in Asia and the Pacific

Pedro Medrado Krainovic et al.
Potential native timber production in tropical forest restoration plantations

Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda
Status of Uganda’s wood industry

Sara Bergante and Paolo Mori
The concept of polycyclic plantation and Italian experiences

Smallholder tree-farming systems in Asia-Pacific

Andrew Cridge, Henri Bailleres, Peter Clinton, and Tim Payn - Scion, New Zealand
Sustainable intensification of New Zealand’s plantation resource – our experience and future outlook

Thais Linhares-Juvenal
Sustainable Wood for a Sustainable World (SW4SW) - Advancing sustainable wood value chains for improved livelihoods and climate resilience