IUFRO Spotlights

2013-11-20

IUFRO Spotlight #16 - You've got an issue? We've got options.

The IUFRO Task Force on Forest Governance is publishing an IUFRO Occasional Paper offering strategic options for strengthening international forest governance initiatives based on insights taken from scholars and practitioners.


You've got an issue? We've got options.

Over the last 30 years practitioners and scholars have been dealing with a range of interventions designed to improve global forest management. These included criteria and indicators (C&I), forest certification and, more recently, legality verification and REDD+, to name but a few.

Despite these well intended efforts, frustration exists about their impacts on the ground when addressing deforestation, forest degradation, carbon emissions, and improving the livelihoods of forest dependent people.

The IUFRO Spotlight explains about the activities of the Task Force to solve these problems.

 

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