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Solutions for Resilience – How are Forest and Farm Producer Organizations and Smallholders responding to COVID-19?

Coordinator: Forest and Farm Facility, FAO

Co-organizing institutions: AgriCord, IIED, IUCN, UNDFF, ESP, FAO, Napo Provincial Government of Ecuador, Forest and Farm Producer Organizations, Global Landscapes Forum

Description:

Smallholder Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPOs) from across the globe will share the innovative solutions they are implementing in response to the COVID-19 crisis to build more resilient communities. For example, the pandemic has put a strain on forests as places of leisure and refuge from urban life, increased pressure on ecosystem preservation services, and delivered a shock to the timber industry. In order to prevent extreme disruption from future crises or pandemics, actions taken now must build long-term, multi-dimensional resilience. Combating desertification and saving our forests may save us from the next pandemic.

Solutions and strategies to be discussed in this session include managing risks and maintaining the functionality of smallholder production systems, improving market access, diversifying livelihoods, developing social and cultural services, forming financial building blocks such as savings and loans, improving access to finance, and building on traditional knowledge. For example, one innovative solution that will be presented is the landscape scale branding of baskets of products based on indigenous management systems in Ecuador, also known as the “Chakra” label.

This session is part of COVID-19 Forestry Webinar Week. During this series, presenters will assess the impacts of the pandemic on people and forests, and identify and discuss possible responses that help mitigate impacts on people.

Languages: English, Spanish and French

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Protect and Preserve Nature, the Source of Human Health

The webinar will be opened by WWF Director-General, Mr Marco Lambertini, CBD Executive-Secretary, Ms Elizabeth Mrema and WHO Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health Dr Maria Neira.

It will feature an expert discussion to present the WHO Manifesto for a Healthy Recovery from COVID-19, introduce new WHO Guidance on Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Nutrition and Health, and provide an opportunity to discuss biodiversity, infectious diseases and sustainable food systems. A lively discussion will follow with a range of development and humanitarian organizations on health and food systems issues.

You can find more information on the webinar here and you can register here.

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Bamboo and Environmental Management (thematic webinar series)

INBAR’s themed online webinar series brings bamboo and rattan experts from all over the world together to educate, inspire and discuss, without the need for travel. Click the links below to learn more, join events remotely, or to catch up on webinars that have already happened

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UN World Ocean’s Day

Join the United Nations World Oceans Day virtual event in celebration of the 2020 theme, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean. Produced in partnership with the non-profit organization Oceanic Global, UN World Oceans Day 2020 will be a day-long event featuring keynote speeches, panels, and presentations with leading ocean voices.

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Forests and the European Commission: Introduction into FLEGT-VPA and ‘Embodied’ Deforestation

The European Commission (EC) continues to develop various instruments that aim to reduce the European Unions (EU) international impact on forest degradation and destruction. In this webinar we want to improve our understanding of two particularly promising instruments and developments. First of all, we will receive an input on a legally binding trade agreement, called Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), which allows Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licenses to be issued. VPA-FLEGT aims to ensure the provision of legally sourced wood from timber-producing countries outside the EU. Why is this specific system believed to deliver positive results? What are the current developments? Can we already see results in countries where VPA-FLEGT is established?

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COVID-19 and what it means for wild meat

The spreading of diseases from animals to humans—also called zoonotic—is a public health concern in light of the current pandemic. COVID-19 that has now spread to more than 100 countries worldwide is also suspected to be originated from pangolin or bat sold in market in Wuhan, China.

As the efforts to curb pandemic accelerate, many conservationists are welcoming China’s move to outlaw hunting and consumption of wild animals. And yet, the reality is not that simple. The ban may put millions of forest dwellers at risk of food insecurity, as Indigenous or rural communities often consume wild meat as their sole source of protein.

How do we address this challenge? Can we find the middle ground to this complex reality?

This webinar is organized with the support of the TRADE HUB, SWM, FTA projects and the Bushmeat Research Initiative of CIFOR.

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Perspectives on Pastoralism | Film festival

Nomadic pastoralists make an important contribution to food and protein production and food security worldwide. They make sustainable use of vast (semi-)desert and mountain areas under specific conditions. While doing this, they do not only exploit the natural environment, but also create landscapes, maintain biodiversity and preserve wildlife populations. Yet, in many areas they are facing tremendous challenges because of land occupation, climate change, mining, political turmoil and hostile governments endangering their way of life. In these challenges the three core domains of Wageningen University & Research (food, feed and bio-based economy, natural resources and living environment, well-being and society), come together and pose important questions and issues for interdisciplinary and societal relevant research.

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The Tree Conference 2020

The Tree Conference is a one day event focused around the needs of trees. Our 3 main aims are:

Support citizen-led reforestation and ecosystem restoration.
Halt destruction of old growth forests and highlight strategies around caring for tree health.
Lift up world class science and practical projects in communities, education and the media.

This year we will have a host of excellent speakers including pioneering projects, environmental lawyers and world class scientists about trees and the climate. The whole conference will be live-streamed. We are keen to support anyone who wishes to set up similar Tree Conferences in their own bioregions.

For more information and tickets please go to our website www.thetreeconference.com.

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Transforming Global Food Systems under Climate Change: Achieving Zero Emissions

On 25 February 2020, key food systems and climate change stakeholders will come together to discuss solutions that could make our food systems climate-friendly.

There has been a growing call among key food systems and climate change stakeholders for transformative changes in the way we produce and consume food.

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Third Conference of the Parties to the Bamako Convention

The Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (Bamako Convention) is a treaty of African nations prohibiting the import into Africa of any hazardous (including radioactive) waste. The Convention was adopted in 1991 and came into force in 1998 with the aim of protecting human and environmental health.

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