AFF Publications

Launch of the AFF Book entitled “Climate Change and African Forest and Wildlife Resources”

In Africa, much as the forestry sector joined the debate on climate change fairly late, significant achievements for the sector have been made. These debates have succeeded in profiling the sector at all levels and also in mobilizing attention and resources for the sector to address the climate change important issues, and more specifically those related to reducing deforestation and degradation, enhancing carbon stocks, improving the protection of forests, and enhancing sustainable management of forest resources; issues constituting REDD+

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AFF has worked on climate change issues related to forests, trees and wildlife resources on the continent. The results from this effort have been compiled in the form of a book with the title Climate Change and African Forest and Wildlife Resources. This book is, therefore, timely in that it highlights to all stakeholders, and in a systematic manner, the climate change issues relevant to the African forestry and wildlife sectors, with the view of increasing these sectors’ contribution, at various levels and fora, and to addressing the vagaries of climate change. The book also outlines the opportunities that climate change brings to the sectors.

Lessons Learnt From Sustainable Forest Initiatives in Asia

This paper analyses policy, institutional and management designs of a wide array of forestry sectors and initiatives and related socio-economic contexts in South and Southeast Asian countries. It discusses select and representative case studies from a number of forestry sectors across Asia. The paper also addresses key initiatives that have been taken in the past several decades to sustainably use and manage forest lands
and usufruct. The purpose of this study is to learn from successes and failures of these initiatives in Asia and especially to better understand how successes can be replicated and failures avoided.

Lessons from Latin America and their relevance to SFM in Africa

The KSLA together with FAO and the AFORNET/AAS are carrying out a project entitled “Lessons Learnt on Sustainable Forest Management in Africa” aiming to:

• Analyse and establish what lessons have been learnt from positive and negative experiences of various initiatives, projects and programmes aiming at sustainable management, use and conservation of forests in Sub-Saharan Africa;
• Analyse and establish what the ecological, economic, social and other pre-requisites are necessary for extending positive lessons to wider use (to more people, larger areas, other countries, etc.); and
• Based on the outcome of the above analyses, identify the major issues and concerns for Africa to draw the attention of the various international processes.