(j) Promoting improved forest practices through strengthening sustainable forest management standards

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

Forest management.

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

(e) Forest law enforcement, governance and conflict management

(b) Each State is responsible for the sustainable management of its forests and for the enforcement of its forest related laws

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

(b) Committee on Reforestation and Forest Management

(i) Promoting the effective protection and use of traditional knowledge and best practices in sustainable forest management

(viii) Protect and enhance sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol and promote sustainable forest management practices, afforestation and reforestation

Forests are deeply entwined with other sectors of society and their management requires coordinated efforts and intersectoral approaches.

In addition, considerable efforts are being made to improve natural forest management and recover forest loss through the Forestry Incentives Programme of the National Forestry Institute (INAB).

Canada would continue to promote a definition of sustainable forest management that would accommodate the variations existing among various forest ecosystems and practices.

Forest ownership in the US is diverse it includes extensive private forests, federally managed forests and public forests managed by state and local governments as well as forests owned by native Indian tribes.12

Financing sustainable forest management

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Approaches to forest landscape restoration were similar to those for other natural resource management, so therefore existing toolkits, structures etc. could be used.

(a) Sustainable management of forest and afforestation reforestation area of forest growing stock and

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

While deforestation and unsustainable management practices can lead to increased water pollution, sustainable forest management in watersheds can help to protect supplies of freshwater.

IPF and IFF agreed on over 270 proposals for action for sustainable forest management.

On the other hand, illegal forest related activities continue to be a major threat to sustainable forest management.

Decentralization in the forest sector should not be implemented in isolation from a general national forestry strategy such as national forest programs.

Almost 20 classes have been detected distinguishing different forest types in combination with forest management practices.

Forests are deeply intertwined with other sectors of the society and their management requires an intersectoral approach that reflects broader developments in economic, social and environmental priorities, as well as new threats to sustainable forest management.

(f) Support the protection and use of traditional forest related knowledge and practices in sustainable forest management with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, and promote fair and equitable sharing of benefits from their utilization, in accordance with national legislation and relevant international agreements

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Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

There are a number of existing international arrangements that have succeeded in strengthening long term political commitment to sustainable forest management and led to significant improvements in national forest policies, legislative frameworks and standards in line with the principles of sustainable forest management.

(k) Identify and implement measures to enhance cooperation and cross sectoral policy and programme coordination among sectors affecting and affected by forest policies and management, with a view to integrating the forest sector into national decision making processes and promoting sustainable forest management, including by addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and by promoting forest conservation

(c) To emphasize an integrated sector wide approach, covering forestry, markets for forest products and trade in forest products.

The reform of forestry policy is introducing two important innovations (i) preparation of forest management plans and (ii) adoption of forest certification and labelling systems.

All the forest is managed and covers about 34 per cent of the country apos s territory.

Agreed ad ref Increase significantly the area of protected forests worldwide and the area of sustainably managed forests and increase the proportion of forest products from sustainably managed forests

Disincentives for sustainable forest management.

International trade and sustainable forest management

(n) Review and, as needed, improve forest related legislation, strengthen forest law enforcement and promote good governance at all levels in order to support sustainable forest management, to create an enabling environment for forest investment and to combat and eradicate illegal practices, in accordance with national legislation, in the forest and other related sectors

Almost all Parties stressed that deforestation was an important issue in their countries and provided information on their forest management practices reforestation, exploitation rules, conservation practices, protected areas, territorial land, national parks and forest reserves.

The FAME concept was intended to overcome those limitations, enabling the forest manager to acquire information on forest changes directly where it was needed, in the office of the forest manager.

These could provide an articulation of the concept of sustainable forest management and help promote wider understanding of its importance.

For example, the integration of local and indigenous communities in sustainable forest management has strengthened the implementation of the IPF IFF proposals for action.

Technology transfer has a broad definition and can include land management practices and techniques for soil and water conservation, as well as protected area management systems, pastoral systems, silvicultural (agroforestry, afforestation, reforestation) practices, genetically superior planting material, efficient harvesting, processing, end use technologies and indigenous knowledge.

ODA is given according to priorities of recipient countries, therefore forests must be prioritized and included in national poverty eradication plans.

Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management