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Description
WFSE Side Event at UNFF12
Tuesday 2 May, 2017; Trusteeship Chamber; 1:15 - 2:45 pm
The side event focused on the significant interlinkages between community and smallholder forestry and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and launched the related WFSE Policy brief Building on synergies: Harnessing community and smallholder forestry for sustainable development goals.
Forests are relevant for almost all of the SDGs and make important contributions to the attainment of these goals. These contributions can be further strengthened. Indigenous and local communities and smallholders, who use and manage a considerable share of the world forests, have a crucial role in harnessing this potential in rural areas. Many SDGs and their targets align with the conditions that have been found to support community and smallholder forest management and related livelihoods. Meaningful progress in these SDGs can generate positive feedback loops that will support community and smallholder forestry and further boost progress towards the SDGs. Efforts to attain the SDGs can lead to synergies among the goals, but can also lead to trade-offs that can undermine livelihood and conservation goals that can be achieved through community and smallholder forestry. To realize the potential that the close interlinkages among C&SF and SDGs provide, it is necessary to address the inherent trade-offs among the SDGs and build on the synergies among them.
Presentations:
Community Forestry - From ethnography to SDGs - Prof. Wil de Jong, Kyoto University
Contributions and potential of community forestry to achieve SDGs - Dr. Steven Lawry, Center for International Forestry Research
Enabling environment for community and smallholder forestry and the SDGs - Dr. Glenn Galloway, University of Florida
Linking community and smallholder forestry to SDGs - Dr. Pia Katila, Natural Resources Institute, Finland
Publication:
Building on synergies: Harnessing community and smallholder forestry for Sustainable Development Goals - Policy brief for download
Photo credit:
IUFRO-WFSE Panel at the side event in UNFF12. Photo: Andre Purret, IUFRO.