Del 24 al 25 de abril en Lima, Perú, tuvo lugar el taller regional “Experiencias y avances frente a la implementación de las reglamentaciones de mercado sobre deforestación”.  Este evento fue liderado por los Ministerios de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego (MIDAGRI) y de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MICETUR) del Perú, con el apoyo técnico de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO).  El taller, organizado conjuntamente por ONU REDD, Acelerando el monitoreo innovador de los bosques (AIM4Forests) y Forest Data Partnership, contó con la participación de 66 representantes de diversas organizaciones de Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,...

From April 24-25 in Lima, Peru, the regional workshop "Experiences and Advances in the Implementation of Market Regulations on Deforestation" took place. This event was led by Peru's Ministries of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI) and Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR), with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The workshop, jointly organized by UN REDD, Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) and the Forest Data Partnership included 66 representatives from various organizations in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Peru, as well as the European Union Delegation (EU), the British Embassy in Peru, German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Biodiversity Alliance-CIAT,...

Many stakeholders recognize the need to address concerns related to gender and forestry to ensure sustainable forest management and equitable benefit sharing. Such concerns may include the need to include women in forest-related governance and decision-making, the need to address gender-based violence in forest settings, and the need to promote women’s forest-based entrepreneurship, to name a few. There are often socio-economic, social, cultural, and political barriers faced by women within many developing countries. Explicit and deliberate action needs to be taken to ensure women, in addition to men, are equitably, actively, and meaningfully involved (UN-REDD, 2017). However, some actors are still...

Within the UN-REDD Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is working with various stakeholders and institutions in the Lower Mekong Region (LMR) to enhance forest governance, sustainability and legality of forest trade as well as data monitoring. In this context, FAO has worked with Viet Nam and other LMR countries to enhance capacities on an innovative forest monitoring system, making use of the recently added near-real-time monitoring capabilities on FAO’s SEPAL platform (sepal.io). This article reflects on the experience of Viet Nam in testing this innovative tool by generating and verifying forest disturbance alerts from medium resolution satellite data. Viet...

L’ambition mondiale de restaurer les terres déboisées et dégradées a augmenté au cours de la dernière décennie, car les gens ont reconnu le rôle important que jouent les terres saines dans l’élimination du dioxyde de carbone de l’atmosphère et la mitigation du changement climatique. Cette augmentation de l’ambition mondiale peut être observée dans le Défi de Bonn, qui a porté son objectif mondial de restauration à 350 millions d’hectares d’ici 2030. Cependant, il existe une lacune critique dans de nombreux efforts de restauration que beaucoup de gens négligent souvent. Les efforts de restauration sont souvent aveugles au genre. Bien qu’ils...