Welcome to Technical Session 1.6
Managing Landscapes for Food, Fuel, Fiber and Forests:Innovative approaches in a time of food insecurity and climate change
Sponsored by:
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
The Forests Dialogue
International Forestry Resources and Institutions
“As we get closer to 2050, maintaining a near zero deforestation rate will require forestry
and farming practices that produce more with less land, water and pollution…”
The 4Fs Initiative
Gary DunningExecutive DirectorThe Forests Dialogue
The Forests, Food, Fuel and Fibre (4Fs) Challenge
Farmland
Plantation Other ecosystems
Unlogged forest
Logged forest
2010
The Big Squeeze
Do Nothing in 2050 High greenhouse gas emissions
Huge decline in biodiversity
Our 4Fs Challenge
- Agricultural expansion leading deforestation;
- Food security clashing with mitigation and conservation;
- Lack of engagement between land use interests and climate initiatives.
The 4Fs Initiative“for fairer, more sustainable land-use choices”
- Engage: Create platforms for dialogue among forest and agriculture stakeholders.
- Explore: Support research on key challenges.
- Change: Improve land-use decision making processes on the ground and promote a landscape based approach.
4Fs Initiative Targets- Build cross-sectoral, multi-
stakeholder platforms to drive innovative landscape approaches at national and international levels
- Identify best practice with landscape-level land-use decision making
- Engage commodity supply chain to broaden support and move certification towards a more landscape based approach
- Greater coordination between interventions
4Fs in Brazil
www.theforestsdialogue.org
Challenges - intensify land-use without causing
environmental or social harm?- conduct integrated, participatory
and rights-based land-use planning?
- better value ecosystem services when making land-use decisions?
- support family based sustainable farming?
- change consumption patterns? - create international standards
and policies that help?
Ways Forward
- National platform for engagement on 4Fs
- Integrated and participatory land-use planning
- Support for family farming- Local to global supply chain
management- Improved governance - Coordinate international
guidance on land use
Thank You!
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New Haven, CT, USA
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