The Heads of forestry services and other senior government
officials from around the world will participate in the Committee on Forestry (CoFo)
meeting held at FAO in Rome, Italy, report NaijaAgroNet.
The Committee on Forestry, NaijaAgroNet gathered, will also
examine what contributions forests could make to achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
Participants, NaijaAgroNet
reports, will identify emerging policy and technical issues affecting the
forestry sector.
Some of the agenda, NaijaAgroNet
reports, include halting deforestation, managing forests sustainably, restoring
degraded forests and adding to worldwide tree cover - forests, trees play
crucial roles in food security, drinking water, renewable energy, and rural
economies and they provide around 20 percent of income for rural households in
developing countries.
In particular, the Committee on Forestry will explore the
contributions that forests can make to the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and discuss actions related to the contributions of
forests to food security and nutrition, including within the context of climate
change.
The COFO meeting will be opened with a message from FAO
Director-General José Graziano da Silva, while, the keynote speakers consist of
Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, Daniel Gustafson Deputy
Director-General (Programmes), FAO, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment
and Forestry, Indonesia; and Tomasz Chruszczow Special Envoy for Climate
Change, Ministry of Environment, Poland.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
Pix: Forest, courtesy FAO
