1) Global forest resources are changing as deforestation rates have slowed over the past two decades but tropical deforestation and degradation remain high issues while planted forests and plantations are growing in importance. 2) Demands on forests are increasing and contradictory as needs rise for food, feed, bioenergy, renewable materials, and ecosystem services due to population and economic growth as well as climate initiatives. 3) These increasing and conflicting demands must be addressed sustainably through approaches like resource efficiency, land use optimization, sustainable forest and resource management, sustainable consumption and production, and informed governance.

1. Other than the climate, what else is
changing and how are we adapting?
Vincent Gitz, Director of the CGIAR research program
on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
CIFOR

2. Outline
1) Changes in global forest resources
2) Increasing and contradictory demands
3) How to address these demands in a sustainable
way?
4) Concluding points: Bamboo rattan: a way forward?

3. Changes in global forest resources
• Worldwide, net forest loss has slowed over the past
two decades.
• Still relatively high rates of ongoing deforestation,
particularly in the tropics
• High levels of forest degradation
• Planted forests and plantations are increasingly
important

4. The Forest transition curve
Adapted from CIFOR, 2011

5. Increasing demands
• For food and feed
• For bioenergy
• For renewable materials, green products
• For ecosystem services
All expected to increase with population growth,
economic development;
As well as with NDCs and SDGs

6. How to address these demands in a
sustainable way?
• Resource efficiency
• Land use: sparing and sharing
• Sustainable forest management
• Sustainable consumption and production
• Informed and inclusive governance

7. Sustainable forest management
The United Nations General Assembly recognizes
that
“sustainable forest management (SFM), as a dynamic
and evolving concept, is intended to maintain and
enhance the economic, social and environmental
values of all types of forests, for the benefit of
present and future generations”. (UNGA, 2008)

9. With support from the CGIAR Fund Donors:
http://on.cgiar.org/CGIARFundDonors