Sustaining Forests: A Development StrategyWorld Bank Publications, 2004 M05 1 - 88 pages The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year consultative process with development partners and stakeholders around the world. The revised strategy, Sustaining Forests, is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning. The strategy also aims to support ecologically, socially and economically sound management of production forests by ensuring good management practices through application of safeguard procedures and independent monitoring and certification. Implementation of the strategy will center on building and strengthening partnerships with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other donor agencies to promote better forest conservation and management at country and global levels. |
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... Sustainable Development Vice ITTO Presidency ( or Network ) International Tropical Timber Organization ESW Economic and sector work IUCN The World Conservation Union X PRSP SAR SFM TAG TNC UN UNDP UNEP vi UNFF. Acronyms and Abbreviations.
... Sustainable Development Vice ITTO Presidency ( or Network ) International Tropical Timber Organization ESW Economic and sector work IUCN The World Conservation Union X PRSP SAR SFM TAG TNC UN UNDP UNEP vi UNFF. Acronyms and Abbreviations.
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... tropical moist forests . They reflected rising interna- tional concern about the rate of tropical deforesta- tion and strongly emphasized the need to preserve intact forest areas . While the 1991 Strategy recog- nized the role that ...
... tropical moist forests . They reflected rising interna- tional concern about the rate of tropical deforesta- tion and strongly emphasized the need to preserve intact forest areas . While the 1991 Strategy recog- nized the role that ...
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... tropical moist forests . In practice , this emphasis on safeguarding forests has meant that little attention was paid to the active management of natural forests in the tropics and therefore to the poverty - reduction potential of ...
... tropical moist forests . In practice , this emphasis on safeguarding forests has meant that little attention was paid to the active management of natural forests in the tropics and therefore to the poverty - reduction potential of ...
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... tropical forest . Given that there are on the order of 600 million to 800 million ha of natural forest that already are , or will soon be , under some form of con- tractual or informal intent for production activities in the Bank's ...
... tropical forest . Given that there are on the order of 600 million to 800 million ha of natural forest that already are , or will soon be , under some form of con- tractual or informal intent for production activities in the Bank's ...
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... tropical coun- tries significantly contributes to soil losses equivalent to 10 percent of agricultural gross domestic product ( GDP ) per year . Forests are consistently and seriously underval- ued in both economic and social terms ...
... tropical coun- tries significantly contributes to soil losses equivalent to 10 percent of agricultural gross domestic product ( GDP ) per year . Forests are consistently and seriously underval- ued in both economic and social terms ...
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