Status of the collaborative drylands’ restoration initiative –
Guidelines for resilient forest landscapes in drylands
Introduction to the workshop
Nora Berrahmouni
FAO Forestry Department, Rome
World Drylands
Source: Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005
Critical issues
• Water scarcity • Deforestation and forest degradation • Soil erosion and low water retention
capacity • Desertification • Climate change • Low land productivity coupled with droughts • Low priority in national policies • Lack of capacity • Low, short-term investment • Poverty and increased population
Afforestation/reforestation in drylands:
the champions
Country Total forest
area
(m ha)
Planted forest
area
m ha %
Sudan 70 6.1 8.7
Turkey 11 3.4 30.2
Mexico 65 3.2 4.9
Spain 18 2.7 14.7
Chile 16 2.4 14.7
Source: FAO Forest Resource Assessment 2010
Collaborative Drylands Restoration Initiative: What is it?
• In collaboration with FAO member countries, local partner organizations, international institutions and organizations
• Comprehensive analysis and evaluation of relevant forestation and restoration programmes and projects (based on FRMT)
• Develop the way forward in the form of guidelines for restoration of degraded forests and lands
Collaborative Drylands Restoration Initiative: Why?
• FAO Regional forestry commissions and Committee on Forestry
• UNCCD 10-year strategic plan and framework (2008-2018)
• UNCBD Strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020
• UNFCCC: Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative
Collaborative Drylands’ Restoration Initiative: How: The process ?
Expert Report:
lessons learnt and way
forward in the form of
guidelines
International
Workshops Literature review
First International Workshop Konya, Turkey, May 2012
Launch of the Initiative => drafting of the guidelines
Draft guidelines for building resilient forest landscapes in drylands: for whom ?
• Decision-makers from forestry and rural development sectors
• Managers of forest restoration programmes and projects • Officers and technicians of international and regional
organizations, bi-lateral and multi-lateral development cooperation agencies and NGOs
Draft guidelines for building resilient forest landscapes in drylands
Structured in 4 main blocks
1. Putting in place an enabling environment 2. Planning for forest landscape restoration
3. Field implementation
4. Monitoring and evaluation
Draft guidelines
1. Putting in place an enabling environment
To address the root causes behind forest degradation and desertification
• Supportive policies and governance mechanisms • Intersectoral collaboration • Capacity development and education • Sustainable financing
Draft guidelines
2. Planning for forest landscape restoration
• Baseline assessment and mapping • Landscape approach • Restoration priorities and objectives • Balancing environmental, socio-economic, cultural
aspects • Participation of relevant stakeholders in planning • Right Species in the right place • Reproductive material of high quality
Draft guidelines
3. Field implementation
• Assisted natural regeneration • Soil and water conservation measures • Forest protection and management measures • Innovative technologies for improving plant production
in nurseries • Planting density, planting period • sowing seeds, planting techniques • Soil preparation, watering • Fire prevention and management techniques • Development and implementation of management plans
for the restored areas
Draft guidelines
4. Monitoring & evaluation
• Incorporation of objectives, performance standards, and protocols for monitoring into the restoration plans
• Monitoring over a long period to detect major
environmental and socio-economic processes/ dynamics • Monitoring, backed by compilation of lessons learnt, to
inform adaptive management and know-how sharing
Second International Workshop Dakar, Senegal, February 2013
Second International workshop: Objectives
• Contribute to the formulation of the “guidelines for building resilient forest landscapes in drylands”
• Identify gaps and challenges that need to be addressed
and appropriate actions for building resilient forest landscapes in Great Green Wall countries
Second International workshop: Expected outputs
• Recommendations for the finalization of “guidelines for building resilient forest landscapes in drylands”
• Joint actions defined to address the gaps and challenges
for building resilient forest landscapes in Great Green Wall countries
Dakar workshop: how we get organized ?
Day 1
Plenary: •Setting the scene
3 working groups : • Review of the guidelines
Day 2 &
Day 3
Field trip : continuation of working groups • Review the draft guidelines through their testing • Analysis of the Senegal experience according to the draft
guidelines
Day 4
Plenary • Reporting from working groups • Tour de table: Key issues and challenges for building resilient
forest landscapes • Joint actions for addressing the issues and challenges • Wrap-up and Road map • Conclusions & closing
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