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 On Thursday, delegates to the 20th session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO 2010) met in a plenary session to address an agenda item on communicating the role of forests in sustainable development, including through the International Year of forests 2011.
Delegates heard presentations on the linkages between national forest programmes and poverty reduction strategies; participatory programmes to address deforestation; the importance of communicating the challenges and achievements of forestry departments and integrating the needs of other sectors; and the potential of cross-sectoral cooperation with respect to investment programmes. Delegates also heard presentations on the preparations for the International Year of Forests 2011 (IYF), and discussed the challenges for forestry in sustainable development, the importance of cross-sectoral and land use planning, and the challenge of including a broader view of forests in the next Global Forest Resources Assesment.
Parallel events of World Forest Week were also held throughout the day. In a session supporting COFO, participants heard presentations on IYF preparations, and on the activities and lessons learned from the International Year of Biodiversity. Delegates: highlighted the opportunity presented by the IYF to promote the importance of forests to the general public and to politicians; described planned national activities for the IYF; and brought up the important role that NGOs will play in national promotional activities.
Other parallel events included a meeting of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) Task Force on a common understanding of SFM; sustainable mountain development in Turkey; and phytosanitary standards; and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). |
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L-R: Jan McAlpine, Director, UNFF; Gerhard Dieterle, World Bank; Gerhard Mannsberger, Director-General of Forestry, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry Environment and Water Management, Austria; Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Assistant Director-General, FAO; Karma Dukpa, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan; Peter Csoka, FAO; Moderator Annika Söder, FAO; Gilbert Canet Brenes, Director of Natural Resources Management, National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), Costa Rica; and Abdelazim Mirghani Ibrahim, Sudan |
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FAO resources
 COFO 2010 web site
COFO 2010 provisional agenda
COFO 2010 documents
FAO Forestry web site
FAO Committee on Forestry
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of COFO 2009, 16-20 March 2009, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of COFO 2007, 12-16 March 2007, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of COFO 2005, 14-19 March 2005, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of COFO 2003, 10-14 March 2003, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS Forests, Desertification and Land web page
IISD RS Introduction to Forests Processes
Forests-L - A mailing list for news on forest policy
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
African Regional Coverage
Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coverage
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Twentieth Session of the Committee on Forestry of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
