Partnership with The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

One of the partnerships emerging as a result of the GM’s consolidated strategy is The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration - a network of government, international and non-governmental organizations actively involved in forest landscape restoration or which support it through technical and policy advice or finance. 

 

Forest landscape restoration is a process for managing the dynamic and complex interactions between people, natural resources and land uses at the landscape level, so as to deliver more equitable and sustainable benefits to local stakeholders. 

By shifting the emphasis away from maximising tree cover on individual sites to optimising the supply of forest benefits such as clean water, timber and non-timber products, and biodiversity conservation, forest landscape restoration aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in deforested or otherwise degraded landscapes. 

 

The GM subscribes to the objectives of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration and is promoting forest landscape restoration as an effective approach for enhancing livelihoods and reducing poverty in rural areas, recognising its potential for stimulating public and private investments in the sustainable management of natural resources at the local level, in line with UNCCD principles.