November 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)

 

They work the land. They protect the land. Does COP26 notice?

Indigenous peoples and local communities are included in the final version of the COP26’s decision text, a definite success compared to previous years. Direct financing for these groups has also been celebrated as a key success at COP26. However, many challenges still remain for these communities.

Read the story

 

 

Indigenous Peoples must be central to tackling the climate crisis

 

We cannot reach our global climate goals without securing communal territorial rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, compensating them for the environmental services they provide, and facilitating community forest management.

Read the editorial

 

 

 

Video - Protecting 80 percent of the Amazon by 2025 (80 x 25)

Following COP26 and noting the IUCN Congress’ approval of Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica’s (COICA) sponsored emergency motion to protect 80 percent of the Amazon Forest by 2025, Gregorio Mirabal, COICA’s General Coordinator, calls for support to avoid the point of no return.

Watch the video 

 

 

 

Video - From the Amazon to Scotland, history is repeating itself

Community land ownership is a solution to both the climate crisis and rural regeneration. Kilfinan Community Forest is restoring native woodland and regenerating the community.

Watch the video about Dùtchas Community

During COP26 in Glasgow, representatives from the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities went to visit the community to learn from them and exchange knowledge.

Video about the exchange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus on Sustainable Woodfuel production

 

How to make Africa’s reliance on charcoal and firewood more sustainable

Woodfuel use does not always lead to environmental degradation. By coming together as cooperatives, woodfuel producers have been able to train in more sustainable wood extraction – such practice as cutting a branch rather than the entire tree to allow for regrowth, or using improved charcoal kilns.

Find out more on the Conference

 

 

CIFOR Sustainable Woodfuel Brief # 3

 

Adopting a unified approach is key to ensuring the development of a more sustainable charcoal value chain, including transparent, consistent and coordinated regulatory institutional mechanisms that incentivize compliance.

Read a short history of sustainable charcoal producer associations in Kenya and Zambia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Forest and Farm Facility

 

David Kaimowitz will finish his FAO contract as manager of the Forest and Farm Facility in December and will be returning to his previous home in Managua. David remains a staunch supporter of the FFF and will continue to collaborate part time with the FFF from Central America. The FFF gratefully acknowledges David’s fantastic contributions and wishes him all the best.

FAO is recruiting for a new manager for the FFF.

You can find the application here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Events

 

Kenya Commercial Forestry Investment Conference & Expo

The conference will showcase and exhibit new technologies and opportunities that investors can tap into commercial Forestry for Wealth Creation, Enhancing Manufacturing, Food Security, Health and attainment of 10% tree cover in Kenya.

Find out more on the Conference

 

 

 

 

COP26 events

Data for forest and farming – building from below

Agriculture’s Ambition – delivering food security, resilience and mitigation in a changing climate

Community Forests: Scaling their Contribution to Climate Resilience in the Tropics

 

 

 

 

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