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Report of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission

Colombo, Sri Lanka 24-27 October 2017











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    Trees in Urban Landscapes. Secretariat Note of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC)
    Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
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    ‘Forestry in a new landscape’
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    State of Forestry in Asia and the Pacific. Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
    Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
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    The Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2015 estimated total forest area in the Asia- Pacific region in 2015 to be 723 million hectares.1 This is an increase of 5 million hectares since 2010 and 20 million hectares since a low point of 703 million hectares recorded in 2000. However, this regional increase is the result of significant reforestation efforts in a few countries including China, India, the Philippines and Viet Nam. Many countries in the region are still experiencing significant forest loss.
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    New landscapes for community forestry. Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
    Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017
    2017
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    Community-based forestry (CBF) is broadly defined as initiatives, sciences, policies, institutions and processes that are intended to increase the role of local people in governing and managing forest resources. CBF takes many forms, e.g. joint forest management, participatory conservation, partial or full devolution of management rights and private ownership. It includes both collaborative regimes (forestry practiced on land that has some form of communal tenure and requires collective action) and smallholder forestry (on land that is generally privately owned). Throughout Asia and the Pacific, CBF is considered an important modality to contribute to addressing deforestation and degradation. In reality, the potential of CBF can go beyond this.

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