Forest Management and Restoration (FMR)

1. Forest Management and Restoration (FMR) 2017 Priorities and Emerging Issues

2. Scientists Manuel Guariguata—Lima Louis Putzel—Beijing Richard Eba’aAtyi—Yaoundé Paolo Cerutti—Nairobi Christian Amani—Kisangani Research support YustinaArtati—HQ VannySantoso—HQ Eva Simarmata—HQ Management approaches and tools for forest conservation, diversified production, restoration Institutions, incentive systems and safeguards for natural and restored forests Impacts of large scale expansion of planted forests--ES provision Effectiveness, equity and impact of forest certification schemes

3. Emerging / at the forefront • Significant top-down demand on forest restoration and related expansion of planted forests—limited in-country supply but a lot of political commitment • Hitherto timber-oriented certification embracing holistic/cross-sectorial approaches incorporating forest-based ecosystem goods and services (FSC 2015 strategy) • GEF-UNEP-FSC-CIFOR 4-yr pilot project on Ecosystem Services Certification providing essential lessons learned • Public forest concessions in the tropics have contributed little to local and national development—towards new alternative models?

4. What we are prioritizing / starting • Sound quantification of certification ‘impacts’ and new methods to assess those impacts along with the private sector • What are factors of success and failure and what alternative forest concession models can be explored/tested? • Beyond tree planting and beyond degradation—decision support tools for assessing cost-effectiveness and risk management of natural forest regeneration • Piloting certification/minimum set of standards for Forest Landscape Restoration initiatives • How Forest Landscape Restoration interfaces with smallholder systems (tenure, technologies, monitoring tools and approaches)

5. What we are prioritizing / starting • Evidence-based assessments for designing restoration plans as national governments are in need of guidance • Large-scale plantation forestry—moving rapidly in many tropical countries—baselines, enabling conditions, lessons learned seldom explored in a systematic manner • Towards a pantropical monitoring framework to standardize biophysical and socioeconomic data collection in restoration projects • Reaching to the practitioner community re. prioritization tools, participatory monitoring approaches

6. Key Linkages • CCE—plantations for bioenergy, restoration of C-rich ecosystems (mangroves, inland peatlands) • VFI—Sustainable business models for FLR options • SFL—Role of the practice of forestry in enhancing food security • EGT—Tenure and national restoration plans • HWB—small holder dimension of FLR

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