Communities, Commerce, and the Bioeconomy: Innovations to Sustain the World’s Forests
The twelfth meeting of MegaFlorestais was held in Vancouver and on Quadra island, in British Columbia, Canada, on October 15-20, 2017 and co-hosted by the Canadian Forest Service-Natural Resources Canada, the Rights and Resources Initiative, and the Province of British Columbia. Delegations from the following countries attended the meeting: Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, DR Congo, Peru, Sweden, and the USA.
Topics discussed
- Community forest entreprises: status, contributions, innovative strategies
- Local innovations in forest governance
- Building resilience
- From conflict to collaboration: the Great Bear Rainforest case study
- Bioeconomy
Field trip: Visits around Quadra Island
The group visited Elk Falls Provincial Park and the Great Bear Rainforest.
Resources
- Agenda (English | Français | Español)
- List of participants
- Speakers biographies
- Synopsis (English | Français | Español)
- Executive summary
Presentations
- Glenn Mason and Sally Collins – Welcome to MegaFlorestais
- UBC – Reports on CFEs
- Duncan Macqueen – Lessons from locally controlled forestry at the global level
- Richard Donovan – CFEs
- Cécile Ndjebet – The Dryad initiative
- Mayra Morales – Elementos de éxito de ACOFOP
- Diane Nicholls – Introduction of the Province of BC
- Christine Gelowitz – The Role of the Forest Professional
- Tim Ryan – Forest Practices Board
- Domenico Iannidinardo – TimberWest
- Andy White – The Role of Forest Tenure
- Don Roberts – Industry, Markets and Trade
- Cécile Ndjebet – Women’s Rights
- Tim Sheldan – The Great Bear Rainforest Case Study
- Peter Blomback – Bioeconomy survey summary
- Glenn Mason – Forest Bioeconomy Framework for Canada (English | Français)
- Pedro Salles – Rural and Environmental Registry Information System
Additional Resources
- MegaFlorestais, 10 Years of MegaFlorestais: A Public Forest Agency Leaders’ Retrospective, 2016 (available in English, French, Spanish, and Chinese, read the press release)
- MegaFlorestais, Public forest agencies in the twenty-first century: Driving change through transparency, tenure reform, citizen involvement and improved governance (available in English | Spanish | French | Chinese | Portuguese | Bahasa)
- MegaFlorestais and Rights and Resources Initiative, Rethinking Forest Regulations, Overcoming the challenges of regulatory reform, 2016 (available in English, French and Spanish)
- State of Canadian Forests (English | Français)
- Rights and Resources Initiative, What Future for Reform? (also available in French and Spanish)
- Rights and Resources Initiative, Who Owns the World’s Land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights, 2015 (available in English, French and Spanish)
- Rights and Resources Initiative, Power and Potential: A Comparative Analysis of National Laws and Regulations Concerning Women’s Rights to Community Forests (English | Français | Español)
- Fact sheet – What is the Association of BC Forest Professionals?