XV World Forestry Congress

Building a green, healthy and resilient future with forests and trees requires strong knowledge to anticipate future changes and shocks, and their impacts on ecosystems, economies and livelihoods. Such knowledge also provides a basis for the development of strong, systemic, and better-coordinated policies to prepare for and address these changes.

The purpose of this session is to discuss the role of forest and tree research for development in building a green, healthy, and resilient future. Forests and trees, like never before, are called on to play an important role in achieving many different objectives.

The session will focus on key insights from a decade of research within the now-concluded CGIAR research program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) (2011-2021), as well as key insights by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) on current major forest research frontiers.

Speakers will investigate emerging issues and key research and implementation gaps that lie ahead of us along the forestry research-to-development spectrum. Specific attention will be devoted to exploring what it takes for science to make an impact, focusing on science for decision making processes, and how knowledge is constructed with – and appropriated by – the various categories of actors.

During the session, the new FTA partnership will be launched and presented.

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Setting the stage for a new partnership

• The story, history, and key successes of FTA
• Keynote speech, online video

Speakers

Robert Nasi

Director General, CIFOR
Chief Operating Officer (COO), CIFOR-ICRAF

Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo

Vice-Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests/Director of the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat

How to address new demands? New demands towards forests and trees, and the role of research. What is needed from R4D to support the roles of forests and trees to achieve the SDGs?

• Panel Introduction: Current research frontiers in forestry
• Perspectives from AFoCO
• Perspectives from CATIE
• Perspectives from WWF
• Interactive session with audience

Speakers

John Parrotta

President, IUFRO

Sunpil JIN

Vice Executive Director, AFoCO

Arlene Lopez Sampson

Principal Researcher, CATIE

Pablo Pacheco

Global Forests Lead Scientist, WWF*

Facilitation

Alexander Buck

Executive Director, International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

The new FTA

Joint presentation of the new FTA by its partners.

Speakers

Rene Boot

Director, Tropenbos International

Michael Kwaku

Ghana Country Coordinator, INBAR

Erich Schaitza

Director General, Embrapa Florestas

Vincent Gitz

Director, Programme and Platforms and Focal Point, Latin America, CIFOR-ICRAF

Peter Minang

Director Africa, CIFOR-ICRAF

Q&A and discussion

All panelists

Conclusion