Strengthening the value chain for indigenous and community forestry operations through increased investment and use of technical assistanceCHALLENGESpanish versions of the three case studies:Mexico: San Bernardino de Milpillas Chico, México -- In Spanish (June 2010)Guatemala: El fortalecimiento de FORESCOM y las Empresas Forestales Comunitarias en la Reserva de la Biosfera Maya, Guatemala -- In Spanish (June 2010)Honduras: El caso de las Cooperativas Agroforestales en la Biósfera Río Plátano, Honduras -- In Spanish (December 2010) The link between sustainable forest management practices and…
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CHALLENGE:Investment in forest management was always traditionally driven by conservation and sustainable forest management objectives. Most lending operations on forests focused on solutions within the forest sector itself. This inward paradigm changed over the recent years especially after the introduction of REDD+, which started to systematically analyze the drivers of deforestation outside the forest sector. Additionally, the development world increasingly recognized that forests provided concrete and valuable services for other sectors. Although REDD+ initially provided new financial…
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CHALLENGELack of community participation in forest control and supervision often hold back efforts to improve forest law enforcement and solve issues affecting indigenous people and local community's livelihoods and access to forest resources.APPROACHThe aim of this activity was to support grassroots organizations targeting forest stakeholders at communal, municipal and departmental (sub national) levels in Honduras to establish Forest Consultative Councils as mandated by the new forestry law (Ley Forestal Decreto 98-2007).RESULTSThis activity implemented by Comisionado Nacional de los…
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CHALLENGEThe objective of the national Chain of Custody (CoC) System is to capture the economic potential of the Liberia forest sector and its associated benefits for rural livelihoods and national growth through a comprehensive monitoring system ensuring that wood products and associated revenues are tracked down and accounted for. The CoC allows the tracking of logs harvested in the forestry concessions in Liberia, from the stump to the port. In addition to the tractability of commercial timber, the CoC controls the legality of log export and ensures that all taxes and fees related to the…
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CHALLENGETunisia has elaborated a new strategy for sustainable forests and rangelands management for the period 2015-2024, of which finalization and dissemination has been supported by a previous PROFOR activity through the organization of regional workshops and the development of an economic valuation of forests and pastoral lands degradation.The national strategy for the sustainable development of forest and rangelands aims to reconcile the conservation of forests and rangelands with socioeconomic development by promoting the involvement of community-based organizations and private owners…
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CHALLENGEThe Central African forest ecosystem contains remarkable biological diversity that the heads of States of the Central African region would like to preserve. Together they adopted a treaty instituting the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) in February 2005. Illegal logging and lack of appropriate forest governance are major obstacles to the efforts of the concerned countries to alleviate poverty, develop their natural resources, and protect global and local environmental services and values.In order to coordinate cross-border solutions (by having a monitoring and evaluation…
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CHALLENGELao PDR has 9.5 million ha of forest cover, representing about 40% of land area. Deforestation rates are very high and as much as 80 percent of the country’s forests are now degraded. Despite government efforts to reverse these negative trends by reducing illegal logging and aggressively prosecuting forest crimes and corruption, considerable damage has already been done. Under this context, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Department of Forestry (DOF) are working to institute stronger measures to foster Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and to restore…
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Program SummaryThis PROFOR activity aims to build the necessary evidence base and rationale for developing a regional and harmonized program on landscape restoration and sustainable management in the arid, semi-arid, and desert areas of sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and the Mashreq.ChallengeIn MENA and sub-Saharan African countries, there is a growing awareness of the important social, economic and environmental roles played by forests, rangelands, and oasis landscapes. All of these ecosystems face threats from agricultural expansion and increasing demand for food, fiber, fuel, and…
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CHALLENGE Traditional oases in Tunisia have significant potential in terms of: intensive development leading to job creation; biodiversity support; diversification through innovative and green activities; and tourism based on exceptional natural beauty in the South. However, these oases face a number of threats. Traditional oases are characterized by: old plantations; three-layered vegetated surfaces; high-tree density (400 trees/ha); very fragmented and small sized individual plantations; low yields; and irrigation from declining water tables. In addition, poor marketing opportunities,…
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APPROACH This project was carried out by CSIRO with support from PROFOR and AUSAID as a part of an ongoing project (Developing Tools for Modeling the Impacts of Macro-economic Policies on Local Livelihoods and Natural Resources). RESULTSThe main output of the project is an Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) tool that could potentially lead to a better understanding of the linkages between forests, livelihoods, and national policies, and could also be used to investigate questions of interest to planning, management, and budgeting agencies concerned with natural resources management and sustainability…
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