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Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) CI - SFM Regional Workshop Zagreb, Croatia, 26-27 March 2013 FAO Regional Office (REU) - Budapest Norbert Winkler-Ráthonyi (Forestry Officer)
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Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
CI - SFM Regional WorkshopZagreb, Croatia, 26-27 March 2013
FAO Regional Office (REU) - Budapest
Norbert Winkler-Ráthonyi(Forestry Officer)
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy
FAO general Forestry Agriculture
Global
Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin-America
Near-East
North-America
Intergovernmental FAO bodies
FAO Conference and Council
FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO)
FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG)
FAO Regional Conference for Europe
(ERC)
European Forestry Commission (EFC)
FAO Regional Conference for the Near
East (NERC)
Near East Forestry and Range Commission
(NEFRC)
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Presentation Notes
The technical programmes and activities are guided by the various Committees (e.g. FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO)). In the Region “Europe and Central Asia” we have the peculiarity (particularity) that not all FAO member countries of REU are members of the European Forestry Commission (EFC; Uzbekistan), but some are member of the Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) or member of both (Turkey), or neither member of the EFC nor the NEFRC (Moldova, Montenegro, Turkmenistan). In addition, we have a subsidiary body to the Commission in our Region, namely the European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds which deals with matters not only relevant for forestry (e.g. water, erosion). Furthermore, there is Silva mediterranea, dating back to 1911, where countries in the region recognized the need to work together on shared forestry problems, and which became an FAO statutory body in 1948. It remains the only international forum dedicated to Mediterranean forest issues in which the Mediterranean countries from the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission, the European Forestry Commission and the Near East Forestry Commission can meet, share experiences and establish cooperative programmes.
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
FAO Strategic objectives:
Eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
Increase and improve provision of goods and services fromagriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner
Reduce rural poverty
Enable more inclusive and efficient food and agricultural systems at local, national and international levels
Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
Cross-cutting themes – Gender / Governance
Organizational structure of FAO
Regional Structure
Liaison Offices
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Regional Offices
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Technical Structure
• Agriculture and Consumer Protection• Economic and Social Development• Fisheries and Aquaculture• Forestry• Natural Resources Management and
Environment• Technical Cooperation
Office of the Director-General
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Members An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 191 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Departments FAO is composed of seven departments at FAO HQ in Rome: six technical ones (see technical structure) and one administration department (Human Resources and Finance). Offices Besides its headquarters in Rome, FAO is present in over 130 countries. The decentralized network includes five regional offices (one for Europe and Central Asia), 11 subregional offices (one for Central and Eastern Europe and one for Central Asia); there are 74 fully fledged country offices but none in the Region Europe and Central Asia). In addition, the Organization maintains five liaison offices and four information offices in developed countries.
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)Budapest, Hungary
Subregional Office for Central Asia (SEC)Ankara, Turkey
Liaison OfficesBrussels, Belgium / Geneva, Switzerland
Decentralized FAO Offices in the Region
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
FAO Member Countries in Europe and Central Asia: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, TFYR of Macedonia , Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan.Member Organization: European Union.
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
FAO Regional objectives (REU):
Strengthening food security and nutrition
Policy advice to governments in support of sustainableintensification for small farms
Natural resource management, including climate changemitigation and adaptation
Control of animal, plant and foodborne pests and diseases
Policy and institutional support for entry of Member States intoregional and global trade and standard-setting bodies andorganizations of regional economic cooperation
Supporting and building global and regional public goods throughapplied research in the areas of food, agriculture, fisheries andforestry
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
REU Activity AreasAgribusiness and Enterprise DevelopmentAgricultural Economy / Policy / Researchand BiotechnologyAnimal Health and ProductionPlant Production and ProtectionFisheryForestry Food Safety and Consumer Protection
GenderInformation and Knowledge ManagementLand Tenure and Rural DevelopmentPrevention and disposal of obsolete pesticidesStatistics
FAO technical assistance to countries
Regular Programme• Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) • Special Programme of Food Security
Extra- budgetary programme• Government Cooperative Programme (GCP)• Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF)
Entry point: Decentralised FAO offices
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Presentation Notes
In view of the above, a framework for climate change adaptation needs to be directed simultaneously along several interrelated lines: • Legal and institutional elements – political stability, decision making, institutional mechanisms, legislation, implementing human rights norms, tenure and ownership, regulatory tools, legal principles, governance and coordination arrangements, resource allocation, networking civil society. • Policy and planning elements – risk assessment and monitoring, analysis, strategy formulation, sectoral measures. • Livelihood elements – security of wood supply, hunger, poverty, non-discriminatory access. • Forestry and integrated farming system elements – growing season, wood suitability, non-timber forest products, agro-forestry, silvo-pastoral, water management, land use planning, soil fertility, soil organisms. • Ecosystem elements – species composition, biodiversity, resilience, ecosystem goods and services. • Linking climate change adaptation processes and technologies for promoting carbon sequestration, substitution of fossil fuels, promoting use of bioenergy. Priority Areas for FAO’s work in the European and Central Asia Region for the biennium 2014-1 5 Food and nutrition security at national, regional and global level Capacity Development and policy support to small farmers for rural poverty reduction Sustainable Natural resource management (including climate change mitigation and adaptation) Control of trans-boundary (food-borne, animal and plant) pests and diseases Policy and institutional support for EU accession and integration
Forestry - Europe and Central Asia Region
Forestcover
Other wooded
land
Annual change
(20 years)
Growing stock
FAO REU 38% 5% + 0.08% 111 m3/ha
REU Europe 45% 5% + 0.08% 111 m3/ha
REU Central Asia 6% 6% + 0.34% 95 m3/ha
Data source: GFRA, 2010
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On average forests cover 38% of the area of FAO REU while other wooded land accounts for extra further 5%. At regional level the figures show a wider variation, from 6% for REU CA to 45% for REU EU. REU CA: 27 Mio ha (2.7%; 27,677,000) REU EU: 1,004 Mio ha (97.3%; 1,004,989,000) REU: 1,032 Mio (100%; 1,032,666,000) Despite the net increase in forest area reported at FAO REU level, deforestation has continued at high rates in some countries. Countries with fewer forests, like Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan, show a continuous decrease in their forest area over the past 20 years. (Other countries with a high forestation rate, like the Russian Federation, Finland or Estonia, show periodic deforestation, followed by an intensive reforestation effort in subsequent years.)
Challenges & opportunities for Forestry
REU Europe
• Ensure sustainable wood mobilization• Maintain active management of forest
REU Central Asia
• Strengthen roles of forests and trees to:- combat desertification- restore and sustainably managemountain watersheds
- conserve riparian (tugai) forests
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In Central and Eastern Europe, only 40% of forests are available for wood supply, compared to 80-90% in other regions of Europe. The fragmentation of forest ownership in Europe represents a challenge for maintaining active and sustainable management of forest and mobilising wood. Just to illustrate the problem: the Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF) claims to serve the interests of the approximately 16 million forest owners (not all EU27 members are covered). For Central and Eastern Europe a figure of more than 11 million private forest holdings can be found in the literature as result of the restitution process as well as fragmentation due to inheritance laws. According to a survey carried out in 1997 in ten different countries of Central and Eastern Europe, over 2.000.000 ha of forest are under the responsibility of more than 1.000.000 new forest owners. However, these important stakeholders lack experience, technical expertise and information, which are necessary in their new responsibilities as forest managers. Furthermore the process of privatisation resulted in fragmentation of land tenure, which is a constraints to sustainable forest management. Forest owners’ organisations of various types have proved to be successful options to overcome these constraints in several Western European Countries. In REU CA the challenges are quite different, namely related to desertification and water.
FAO REU assistance to Western Balkans (2013)
• 2011-2014: Support to Implementation of the Forest Policy and Strategy in Kosovo (GCP/KOS/005/FIN)
• 2013-2013: Woodfuel Integrated Supply and Demand Overview Mapping (WISDOM) for Montenegro (GCP/MNE/001/LUX)
• 2013-2015: Assistance for the development of forest infrastructure planning and construction in Serbia (TCP/SRB/3401)
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Presentation Notes
In view of the above, a framework for climate change adaptation needs to be directed simultaneously along several interrelated lines: • Legal and institutional elements – political stability, decision making, institutional mechanisms, legislation, implementing human rights norms, tenure and ownership, regulatory tools, legal principles, governance and coordination arrangements, resource allocation, networking civil society. • Policy and planning elements – risk assessment and monitoring, analysis, strategy formulation, sectoral measures. • Livelihood elements – security of wood supply, hunger, poverty, non-discriminatory access. • Forestry and integrated farming system elements – growing season, wood suitability, non-timber forest products, agro-forestry, silvo-pastoral, water management, land use planning, soil fertility, soil organisms. • Ecosystem elements – species composition, biodiversity, resilience, ecosystem goods and services. • Linking climate change adaptation processes and technologies for promoting carbon sequestration, substitution of fossil fuels, promoting use of bioenergy. Priority Areas for FAO’s work in the European and Central Asia Region for the biennium 2014-1 5 Food and nutrition security at national, regional and global level Capacity Development and policy support to small farmers for rural poverty reduction Sustainable Natural resource management (including climate change mitigation and adaptation) Control of trans-boundary (food-borne, animal and plant) pests and diseases Policy and institutional support for EU accession and integration
FAO REU assistance to Western Balkans (2013)
• (2013-2015)Using wood energy to improve sustainable economic rural development and meet the 2020 renewable energy targets for the Western Balkans (TCP/RER/617220 )
• (2013-2015)Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in forests and forestry of Southeast Europe (TCP/RER/617254)
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Presentation Notes
In view of the above, a framework for climate change adaptation needs to be directed simultaneously along several interrelated lines: • Legal and institutional elements – political stability, decision making, institutional mechanisms, legislation, implementing human rights norms, tenure and ownership, regulatory tools, legal principles, governance and coordination arrangements, resource allocation, networking civil society. • Policy and planning elements – risk assessment and monitoring, analysis, strategy formulation, sectoral measures. • Livelihood elements – security of wood supply, hunger, poverty, non-discriminatory access. • Forestry and integrated farming system elements – growing season, wood suitability, non-timber forest products, agro-forestry, silvo-pastoral, water management, land use planning, soil fertility, soil organisms. • Ecosystem elements – species composition, biodiversity, resilience, ecosystem goods and services. • Linking climate change adaptation processes and technologies for promoting carbon sequestration, substitution of fossil fuels, promoting use of bioenergy. Priority Areas for FAO’s work in the European and Central Asia Region for the biennium 2014-1 5 Food and nutrition security at national, regional and global level Capacity Development and policy support to small farmers for rural poverty reduction Sustainable Natural resource management (including climate change mitigation and adaptation) Control of trans-boundary (food-borne, animal and plant) pests and diseases Policy and institutional support for EU accession and integration
FAO REU support to Western Balkans (2013)
• 26-27 March: Implementing C&I for sustainable forest management - Regional workshop (EFI, Forest Europe, FAO), Zagreb, Croatia
• 15-18 April: Implementation of Phytosanitary Standards in Forestry - Regional capacity development workshop for SEE countries
(FAO, EPPO), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2nd half 2013: Organisational development of public forestry administrations in the region in response to changing demands on forests and their governance - Ukraine
2nd half 2013: Integrating climate change issues into national forest programmes for SFM - Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan
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Presenter
Presentation Notes
In view of the above, a framework for climate change adaptation needs to be directed simultaneously along several interrelated lines: • Legal and institutional elements – political stability, decision making, institutional mechanisms, legislation, implementing human rights norms, tenure and ownership, regulatory tools, legal principles, governance and coordination arrangements, resource allocation, networking civil society. • Policy and planning elements – risk assessment and monitoring, analysis, strategy formulation, sectoral measures. • Livelihood elements – security of wood supply, hunger, poverty, non-discriminatory access. • Forestry and integrated farming system elements – growing season, wood suitability, non-timber forest products, agro-forestry, silvo-pastoral, water management, land use planning, soil fertility, soil organisms. • Ecosystem elements – species composition, biodiversity, resilience, ecosystem goods and services. • Linking climate change adaptation processes and technologies for promoting carbon sequestration, substitution of fossil fuels, promoting use of bioenergy. Priority Areas for FAO’s work in the European and Central Asia Region for the biennium 2014-1 5 Food and nutrition security at national, regional and global level Capacity Development and policy support to small farmers for rural poverty reduction Sustainable Natural resource management (including climate change mitigation and adaptation) Control of trans-boundary (food-borne, animal and plant) pests and diseases Policy and institutional support for EU accession and integration
Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
• FAO Strategy for Forests and Forestryhttp://www.fao.org/docrep/012/al043e/al043e00.pdf
• Ongoing activities in REUhttp://www.fao.org/europe/en/
• Employment opportunitieshttp://www.fao.org/employment/en/
Further information
