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The FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean has the pleasure to invite you to participate in an electronic conference on: Project TCP/RLA/3007 "Validation of 15 priority indicators for the Amazon forest sustainability" |
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Existing poverty in the Amazon region conducts to an under-exploitation of forest resources, to its degradation and destruction, making more difficult life quality in the communities and food security. To define the concept of “sustainability”, regional, international and national processes were developed tending to establish, objectively, criteria which define such sustainability and indicators which evaluate and assume follow-up to the progress of the state of forests. This will allow quantifying and qualifying different variables which will establishes if forests are managed in a sustainable manner, or, to the contrary, if they are deviating from this objective. The Tarapoto Process, initiated in 1995, identified 12 criteria and 77 indicators of sustainability of the Amazon forest, as an important initiative for the formulation of sustainable proposals for forest resources utilization in the Region, compatible with economic and social development and based on environmental criteria on which member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) will establish qualitative and quantitative measurable mechanisms of sustainability. During the second regional meeting, held in June, 2001 fifteen indicators were selected, which are proposed to be validated under the present project. Within the framework of the Tarapoto process, the ACTO, integrated by Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Suriname and Venezuela , has requested FAO’s assistance to validate the 15 indicators of forestry sustainable management and their implementation at the level of forest management unit.
Validate the Priority one (highly applicable) sustainable forest management indicators for the Amazon forest that were identified by the ACTO member countries during the Tarapoto II Regional Meeting.
The expected results at end of the project will include: a field-tested methodology for the validation of sustainable forest management indicators in the Amazon; a set of field-tested sustainability indicators for Amazon forests, appropriate to all ACTO countries; a network of institutions and technical staff adequately trained to generate information and to measure the variables used to evaluate Amazon forest sustainability indicators (they will be capable of systematically and periodically implementing the validated indicators in each country); a network of technical staff capable of analyzing and using long-term monitoring with validated indicators.
The present Forum proposes to build up a platform for exchanging experiences on the process of validation of sustainability indicators for the Amazon forest, as defined in the Tarapoto Process for the eight member countries of the ACTO, which are participants of Project TCP/RLA/3007 “Validation of fifteen priority indicators for the Amazon forest sustainability”, financed by FAO within the framework of its Technical Cooperation Programme. The Forum will allow the National Coordinators and Consultants of the project to share their experiences and the progress of work developed in the countries, as it was agreed during the 2 nd reviewing and coordination workshop organized by the ACTO from 3 to 5 August, in the city of Brasilia, Brazil. The platform of the present electronic forum should be used to incorporate information and experiences that may shared by all Coordinators and Consultants of the project, as well as reports and comments on the achievements and difficulties encountered during the development of the activities of validating of indicators that could be of interest to all participants. The present forum will be carried out up to the end of the project, in March, 2006 and it will be moderated by Mr Eduardo Vilela Morales, Regional Coordinator of the Project.
Sr. Eduardo Vilela Morales
Sr. Carlos Aragón
Sr. Froylán Castañeda Mario Mengarelli
Project document (Formato PDF = 195 kb) |
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