Greening synergies: Innovative solutions to halt deforestation through sustainable agricultural supply chains and financial enablers 

Overview

Join this event to explore a broad array of solutions aimed at achieving a sustainable balance between agricultural and forestry objectives and halting deforestation. Supply chain approach and financial innovations for amplifying ground-level efforts will be highlighted.   

The event aligns with the COFO-COAG agenda item on “Linkages between agriculture and forestry”, presenting recent developments in conserving forest resources and related ecosystem services, achieving climate goals and enhancing livelihood, including through the transformation of agrifood systems. 

The event will introduce the “solution-tree” interactive online platform and call for collaboration from countries and partners for further identification of positive solutions to achieve sustainable commodities production while conserving and protecting forest ecosystems.

Financial solutions will be showcased as key enablers for forest-positive practices. The event will feature an analysis of public expenditures aimed at aligning sectoral policies, balancing competing country priorities and improving the coherence of public spending with national climate, sustainability, production and economic objectives.

Objectives

• Foster a systematic approach. Thinking at a systemic level and build inter-sectorial solutions can lead to significant and more permanent results in reducing deforestation and enhancing livelihoods.  
• Tackle context-specific needs. Dynamics in land use change are highly context-dependent and different approaches are needed for responding to this diversity – there is no one-size-fits-all solution, but it is possible to imagine tailored and bespoke responses from the many examples and solutions already identified.  
• Enhance collaborative development. Invite participants to submit additional indirect drivers, measures, case studies, tools, and publications to enrich the “solution-tree” online platform collaboratively, fostering a participatory development process.  
• Financial and policy strategies as an opportunity. Broaden the scope of solutions on financial strategies and policy coherence for reducing deforestation.  
• Better understanding of public expenditure and coherence of expenditure can help to attract more international finance. 

Speakers

Astrid Agostini
Senior Adviser – Climate and Environment
FAO Investment Centre 
FAO
 

Kawashima Yutaka
Senior Policy Analyst for International Affairs
Forestry Agency
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 
Japan

Tiina Vähänen
Deputy Director
Forestry Division
FAO 
 

Bob Kazungu
Ag. Assistant Commissioner for Forestry
Assessment and Monitoring
Ministry of Water and Environment
Uganda 

Juan Carlos Jintiach
Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
 

Oscar Gutiérrez
Director of Statistics and Agrarian Information
Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation
Peru 

Serena Fortuna
Team Leader and Senior Forestry Officer
Halting Deforestation, Degradation, and Emissions Team
Forestry Division
FAO
 

Naoko Takahashi
Forestry Officer
Halting Deforestation, Degradation, and Emissions Team
Forestry Division
FAO