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Sustainable Forest Management

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Afforestation - Agroforestry - Forest concessions - Forest governance - Forest industries - Forest management - Forestry education/training - Forestry research - Forestry services - Fuelwood/charcoal - Illegal timber trade & forest crime - Timber regulation - Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)

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    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 30 April 2013
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  • GCCA Partners Take Stock of Climate Change Actions in Developing Countries

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 16 April 2013
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    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
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  • Making Farmers Part of the Climate Change Solution

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
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    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
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  • Farming and Agriculture: Looking Out for the Little Guy

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
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    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 11 April 2013
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    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 9 April 2013
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  • James Morris commented on an article | 15 March 2013

    The EU Approach to Resilience: Learning from Food Security Crises

    The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is supporting such efforts to ensure Food Security through work on ecosystem management as well as sustainable consumption and production. See UNEP's Food Security related reports here http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/unep/documents?gterm[0]=7180
  • Ulrich Malessa commented on information | 25 February 2013

    VIDEO: Latest VPA news and more, from Mathieu Bousquet

    Great news: Cote d`Ivoire with VPA negotiations! Are there any news on the question when we will be able to see the first timber shipment with a FLEGT license?

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