Forests, Trees and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations

This policy brief summarizes the key messages of the GFEP report “Forests, Trees and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations” and reaches out to international as well as national policymakers and other stakeholders.

Following key messages are highlighted:

• Forests and trees support human well-being and contribute to global efforts to end poverty
• Benefits from forests and trees to human well-being are unevenly distributed
• Forests and trees can contribute to the well-being of the poor as they face profound global changes
• Inadequate land use policies and programmes may lead to excessive costs being borne by the poor
• Policy and management measures that enable forests and trees to alleviate poverty need to be tailored to each specific context

PDFs for download

• Policy Brief (high resolution)  (PDF, 9.6 MB)
• Policy Brief (low resolution)  (PDF, 587 KB)