These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

Almost all Parties stressed that deforestation was an important issue in their countries and provided information on their forest management practices reforestation, exploitation rules, conservation practices, protected areas, territorial land, national parks and forest reserves.

The lack of mechanisms to compensate forest owners for environmental and social non market services encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

In order to reverse this trend, it will therefore be necessary to increase forest management and reafforestation and to control the most important factors contributing to forest loss (excessive tree felling, unsuitable planting practices and forest fires among others).

One way forward is for forest and agroforestry practices to focus on cultivating medicinal plants to meet these growing demands.

Increase understanding of good practices and opportunities to optimize delivery of the benefits from forest landscape restoration activities Stimulate the political support, policy and partnership arrangement and investment needed to implement effective forest landscape activities Catalyze and demonstrate implementation of forest landscape restoration globally.

Although decentralization has achieved contradictory outcomes, in many cases it has contributed to improved equity in access to forest resources, the distribution of economic benefits from these resources, and to sustainable forest management practices.

The Forum endorsed the undertaking of leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group to examine uniform legislation, procedures and practices in forest resources.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

While deforestation and unsustainable management practices can lead to increased water pollution, sustainable forest management in watersheds can help to protect supplies of freshwater.

These events explored restoration strategies and the policy tools to support them, profiled best practices in forest landscape restoration, and identified opportunities for collaboration.

Poverty has contributed to unsustainable agricultural practices and environmentally harmful use of our forest resources, which, in turn, have led to drought and desertification.

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Forest Resources in the Tropical World (forest areas)

Increase understanding of good practices and opportunities to optimize delivery of the benefits from forest landscape restoration activities (learning) Stimulate the political support, policy and partnership arrangements and investment needed to implement effective forest landscape restoration activities (support) Catalyze and demonstrate implementation of forest landscape restoration around the world (demonstration and acceleration).

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

(l) Strengthen mechanisms that enhance sharing among countries and the use of best practices in sustainable forest management, including through freeware based information and communications technology

In many countries, customary laws and practices allow women to have access to land and engage in and benefit from agricultural, livestock and forest based production.

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Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

(c) Establish a clearing house mechanism to facilitate a better exchange of experiences and good practices and to facilitate the access by developing countries to better technology for sustainable forest management and an increase of in situ added value for forest products

Overall, traditional forest related knowledge in forest management is not recognized on an equal footing with scientific forest knowledge.

In many countries, customary laws and practices allow women to access land and enable them to engage in and benefit from agricultural, livestock and forest based production.

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

Sustainable forest management

Sustainable forest management

Total forest area

(h) Forest degradation

Forest cover 1990

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in Miedzyborze forest.

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

The owner of the forest also has a duty to take measures to reduce the possibility of the forest damage and restrict its distribution to monitor forest situation and to notify the State Forest Service of determined forest damage.

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

One Forest, Two Tigers

Financing sustainable forest management

Forest related scientific knowledge

Forest health and productivity