What is new in FAO Forestry?

Eva MüllerFAO

Content

• Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010

• 20th Session of COFO

• State of the World’s 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

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010

Key findings

Deforestation and forest loss

1990-2000: 16 million ha/year

2000-2010: 13 million ha/year

Afforestation and forest expansion

>7 million ha/year

Net change = Σ(gain) - Σ(loss)1990-2000: -8.3 million ha/year

2000-2010: -5.2 million ha/year

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

State of the World’s 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

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

International Year of Forests (IYF)

• 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

a unique opportunity

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

FAO’s 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

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

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

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.

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 InstrumentUnder development; to be funded by Japan

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 M&E system