What is new in FAO Forestry?

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What is new in FAO Forestry?

• Eva Müller
• FAO

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Content

• Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
• 20th Session of COFO
• State of the Worlds Forests 2011
• Communication strategy
• International Year of Forests (IYF)
• ACP FLEGT Support Programme
• Support to the Implementation of the Forest
  Instrument
• Global forest tenure situation and trends
• Lessons learned globally from forest tenure
  reforms
• The tenure reform in China in the global context

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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
Key findings
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Deforestation and forest loss
1990-2000 16 million ha/year 2000-2010 13
million ha/year
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Afforestation and forest expansion
gt7 million ha/year
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Net change S(gain) - S(loss)

• 1990-2000 -8.3 million ha/year
• 2000-2010 -5.2 million ha/year

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COFO 2010 2nd World Forest Week

• Launching of FRA 2010
• Climate change
• Forest finance
• Governance
• Forestry and Sustainable Development
• Communication The International Year of Forests
• Heads of Forestry Dialogues
• International Conference
• Forest tenure ? ownership, access and use rights,
  management rights
• Forest tenure versus land tenure
• Forest tenure and REDD, FLEGT

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State of the Worlds Forest

• To be launched in early 2011 (IYF)
• Main topics-
• The state of forests by region
• Developing sustainable forest industries
• The role of forests in climate change adaptation
  and mitigation
• Realizing the local value of forests

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Forestry Communication Strategy

• Diversify communication means/methods
• Select key themes to build actions around
• Identify key events
• Work proactively on key messages
• Create network with media
• Build capacity for effective communication

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International Year of Forests (IYF)
a unique opportunity

• Proclaimed by GA Resolution 61/193, which
• designated UNFFS as the international coordinator
• invited in particular, FAO, as the Chair of the
  CPF, within its mandate to support the
  implementation of the Year
• UNFFS developed a concept for global action

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IYF Partnerships

• CPF members, other members of the UN, relevant
  non-UN entities
• Major networks
• With organizers of different World Days
• With organizers of major events

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FAOs own activities

• Publications (SOFO, UNASYLVA, FRA remote sensing
  survey)
• Press kits and publication toolkits
• Web-based activities
• Meetings, e.g special meeting for civil society
• Exhibits, incl. dressing the building
• Mobilizing FAO staff

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Rome-based activities

• Cooperate with the organizers of the Earth Day
  concert
• Check feasibility of a nature film festival
• Dress up environmentally friendly public
  transport vehicles (trams and buses with electric
  engine)
• Develop an IYF booth for outdoor summer events
• Participate at the public event of Corpo
  Forestale
• Cooperate with organizers of the Rome Marathon
• Cooperate with other Rome-based agencies

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ACP-FLEGT Support Programme

• Four-year programme
• November 2008 to November 2012
• 12 million Euro budget
• 10 million funded by EC ACP
• 2 million Euro in-kind contribution by FAO
• Target audience
• 79 members of the ACP Group of Countries
• Government Institutions, Civil Society
  Organizations and Private Sector Organizations

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Programme Objective

• Support ACP country stakeholders to put the EU
  FLEGT Action Plan into practice by
• Providing resources to ACP country stakeholder
  groups to address locally defined FLEGT issues
• Supporting the collection, analysis and
  dissemination of FLEGT-related information and
  lesson learned among stakeholder groups.

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Support to the Implementation of the Forest
Instrument

• Ghana (2009 - 2011)
• Funding from Germany (BMZ)
• Liberia, Nicaragua, Philippines (2010 2012)
• Funding from Germany (BMELV)
• Support to reporting by countries to UNFF on the
  Forest Instrument
• Under development to be funded by Japan

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Ghana

• Approach
• participatory assessment
• identification of strengths, weaknesses and
  priority areas for action
• implementation of catalytic activities to address
  key priorities
• coordination of implementation with sector
  policies and ongoing initiatives in the forest
  sector
• development of an ME system