Building momentum for forestry in the bioeconomy and sustainable development
The thirteenth meeting of MegaFlorestais was held in Storforsen, Vidsel, Sweden, on June 26-29, 2018 and co-hosted by the Swedish Forest Agency and the Rights and Resources Initiative.
Delegations from the following countries attended the meeting: Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, India, Indonesia, Peru, Sweden, and the USA.
Topics discussed
- Smallholders, communities, and Indigenous Peoples as drivers of the local economy
- Balancing Environmental, Economic, and Social Goals in the Bioeconmy
- Climate Change and Forests: from Science to Policy
- How does it work in practice
- Call to Action for 2019
Field trip: Visits around Southern Norrbotten County
The group visited a forest reserve maintained by Sveaskog (the state-owned forest company), took a guided tour or the “Tree-Hotel”, and viewed a demonstration of tree thinning by forest owner Elisabet Sandberg.
Resources
Presentations
- Herman Sundqvist and Sally Collins – Welcome to MegaFlorestais
- Marie Wickberg and Magnus Berg – Smallholders as drivers of the local economy.
- Don Roberts – Balancing environmental, economic, and social goals in the bio-economy
- Juan Manuel Torres Rojo – Bio-economy: Roles of and interactions between government and local communities.
- Annika Nordin – Forests’ role in societies under pressure of climate change.
- Samuel Nguiffo – Creating opportunities to alleviate poverty and promote economic development.
- Karoliina Lindroos – Profitable and sustainable impact investing in developing countries.
- Johan Lindman – Sustainable wood value chains
- Anton Holmstrom – Possibilities of drones in forestry
- Raimundo Deusdara Filho – Implementing the Brazilian Forest Code
- Svante Larsson – New laser-scanning of Sweden’s forest land
- Andy White, Herman Sundqvist, and Sally Collins – MegaFlorestais: Key themes and takeaways
- Bambang Supriyanto – Social Forestry Implementation in Indonesia
- Siddhanta Das – Forest solutions: Climate and water crisis in India
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)
- 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)