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