{"id":17295,"date":"2014-06-23T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtcc.org\/?p=17295"},"modified":"2014-07-07T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:47:30","slug":"un-forest-policy-must-focus-on-human-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2014\/06\/23\/un-forest-policy-must-focus-on-human-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Forest policy must focus on human benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>Governments must consider the billions of people depending on forests for food, energy and shelter, says FAO report<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17296\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17296\" alt=\"Pic: Alex Green\/Flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/forest.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/forest.jpg 466w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/forest-57x32.jpg 57w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/forest-112x63.jpg 112w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/forest-290x163.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pic: Alex Green\/Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtcc_sophie\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Yeo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Governments should adjust national policies to reflect the benefits that forests provide to the health and livelihoods of billions of people, according to the UN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forests provide essential services in reducing poverty, providing energy and ensuring food security across the world, yet government policies fail to harness these benefits, said the UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for forestry to shift perspective from trees to people,\u201d said the biennial report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/a-i3710e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">State of the World\u2019s Forests 2014<\/a>, launched today in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>There is a \u201cdisconnect\u201d in policy between the focus on the formal forestry sector and the billions of people that rely informally on the forest every day for food, energy and shelter, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Most countries continue to operate on the \u201ctechnical paradigm of forest management\u201d, rather than a people-oriented approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is impressive to see how forests contribute to basic needs and rural livelihoods. They are also a carbon sink, and preserve biodiversity,&#8221; said FAO Director-General Jos\u00e9 Graziano da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me say this clearly: we cannot ensure food security or sustainable development without preserving and using forest resources responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UN recognises the preservation of forests as a method of reducing global warming, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un-redd.org\/AboutUN-REDDProgramme\/tabid\/102613\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">programme<\/a> in place allowing rich countries to pay poor forest nations to keep their forests intact. Deforestation accounts for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Data<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Relatively few countries specifically address poverty or rural employment when updating their forest policies, it says in the report, despite the forest sector employing 13.2 million people across the world, and at least another 41 million people informally.<\/p>\n<p>Only 58% of national forest management policies updated since 2007 link sustainable forest management to poverty reduction goals.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional knowledge and practises related to forests are also important to indigenous groups and beyond, but this is reflected by only a few countries, mainly through improved tenure rights and access to natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually every country with significant forest resources has a national forestry programme, but growth in populations and the middle class, along with increasing urbanisation, means that these should be updated to reflect the changing pressures on the world\u2019s forests, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Better policies could be supported by better data collection, it added, with more robust statistics on the extent to which communities depend on forests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the exception of formal employment figures, forestry administrations have little information on how many people benefit from forests,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Such a shift could help secure the financial aid needed to manage the world\u2019s forests sustainably, said Eduardo Rojas-Briales, FAO Assistant Director-General for Forests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new, holistic concept of forests will make them more attractive to donors and investors and ensure that they benefit all people, especially those most in need.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS: Governments must consider the billions of people depending on forests for food, energy and shelter, says FAO 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