Webinar "United for nature: keeping a close eye on forests in Latin America and the Caribbean"
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research (INIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), the Forestry Institute of Chile (INFOR), and the European NFI Network (ENFIN), is excited to host the webinar, “United for nature: keeping a close eye on forests in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Date: Thursday, 2nd December
Time: 15:00 (Rome), 11:00 (Argentina, Chile, Brazil), 09:00 (Ecuador, Colombia, Peru), 08:00 (Honduras, Mexico, Belize)
Language: Spanish and English
Register now at: https://bit.ly/NFI_LAC
Attendance: Please note that the webinar has a limit of 500 simultaneous participants.
The event will gather forestry practitioners and experts to discuss the importance of robust and transparent forestry data for effective and evidence-driven policy- and decision-making. At the event, FAO and partners will present a state-of-the-art publication “National forest inventories in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards the harmonization of forest information” and hold a dynamic discussion around the country examples and the most relevant aspects of this work. The event aims to increase knowledge sharing about the national forest inventory processes and strengthen the NFI network, in order to improve the quality and transparency of forest data and information.
More information about this event is available in English and in Spanish
Agenda and speakers:
Opening remarks: Mette Loyche Wilkie, Director, FAO Forestry Division
Publications launch: Carla Ramírez Zea, National Forest Monitoring and Inventories Expert, FAO Forestry Division
Forum: Importance of National Forest Inventories in Latin America and the Caribbean, moderated by Iciar Alberdi, Steering Committee member of the European network of National Forest Inventory, ENFIN/INIA-CSIC
- Luis Meneses Murillo, General Director, CONAFOR - Mexico
- Fernando Raga Castellanos, Executive Director, INFOR - Chile
- Silvana Chulde, Director of Forests, MAATE - Ecuador
- Martín Mónaco, National Director of Forests, MAyDS - Argentina
- Betina Salgado, NFI Coordinator, ICF – Honduras
Closing remarks: Julian Fox, Team Leader, National Forest Monitoring Team, FAO Forestry Division and Anssi Pekkarinen, Coordinator of the Global Forest Resources Assessment, FAO Forestry Division
Moderator: David Morales, Forestry Officer, FAO Forestry Division.
For more information about this event, please contact:
Maryia Kukharava
Outreach and Knowledge Management Expert
REDD+/National Forest Monitoring Cluster
Forestry Division, FAO