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Forest Landscape Restoration

Restoration is an urgent correction to the past and current global land degradation trends, to return forest cover, improve food security, and tackle climate change – among other goals. It has been estimated over 2 billion hectares of degraded land provide opportunities for forest and landscape restoration. In September 2011, world leaders launched global Bonn Challenge – a voluntary global initiative that aimed to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land by 2020. The global Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) movement is gaining momentum. Thus, it is important to clarify what FLR is, the concepts, opportunities, challenges and its future implications.

Resources for Forest Landscape Restoration

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Lessons on land tenure and forest landscape restoration (FLR): A focus on sub-Saharan Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa

It is important to understand and address land and forest tenure – comprehensively – if we are to work towards land and forest restoration that is both socially and ecologically sustainable. Forests are critical to planetary health, and the increasing threats of climate change, biodiversity loss and hunger call for urgent action at all levels.

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Projects

October 2009 to December 2013

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United States dollar
ISO 4217 code
USD
Currency Symbol
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5000000
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Euro

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

Project duration:
Australian dollar

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

9810000
Project duration:
to
Euro

General

0
Project duration:
Euro

General

To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

33700000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use

5200000
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General

Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

20000000
Donors:
Government of Germany, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

General

By maintaining and protecting 101,000 ha of rainforest in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, the first areas to be designated for ecosystem restoration in Indonesia, some 15.2 million tonnes of CO2 are to be securely stored over a 30-year period to serve as

December 2010 to March 2015

United States dollar

United States dollar
ISO 4217 code
USD
Currency Symbol
$
5000000
Project duration:
to
Euro

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

Project duration:
Australian dollar

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

9810000
Project duration:
to
Euro

General

0
Project duration:
Euro

General

To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

33700000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use

5200000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

7200000
Donors:
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

General

The project aims to preserve forest ecosystems in the Pacific and thus contribute to climate change mitigation. To this end it is supporting three island states in creating the conditions necessary for par-ticipation in an international financing mechanism for

October 2009 to December 2013

United States dollar

United States dollar
ISO 4217 code
USD
Currency Symbol
$
5000000
Project duration:
to
Euro

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

Project duration:
Australian dollar

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

9810000
Project duration:
to
Euro

General

0
Project duration:
Euro

General

To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

33700000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use

5200000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

5200000
Donors:
Government of Germany, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

General

The project targets efforts to preserve the largest contiguous tropical forest complex in the world in three countries with areas located within the so-called Guiana Shield (Guyana, Surinam and Brazil). To this end, the project supports comprehensive conservation

January 2013 to June 2017

United States dollar

United States dollar
ISO 4217 code
USD
Currency Symbol
$
5000000
Project duration:
to
Euro

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

Project duration:
Australian dollar

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

9810000
Project duration:
to
Euro

General

0
Project duration:
Euro

General

To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

33700000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use

5200000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

2500000
Donors:
Government of Germany, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

General

The effects of climate change and the advanced deforestation in the Amazon region pose a threat to the livelihood of the local population and biodiversity. Protection efforts in communal reserves have had little success to date because the indigenous communities

November 2012 to October 2017

United States dollar

United States dollar
ISO 4217 code
USD
Currency Symbol
$
5000000
Project duration:
to
Euro

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

Project duration:
Australian dollar

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

9810000
Project duration:
to
Euro

General

0
Project duration:
Euro

General

To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

33700000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use

5200000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

3373000
Donors:
Government of Germany, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

General

The purpose of the project is to conserve natural resources in Peru's Manu Biosphere Reserve, home to a unique and rich biological diversity. To this end, it assists the local population in managing natural resources. Measures include: utilisation agreements,

August 2009 to March 2013

United States dollar

United States dollar
ISO 4217 code
USD
Currency Symbol
$
5000000
Project duration:
to
Euro

Context

Reliable access to land plays a central role in food security and poverty reduction as well as for the sustainable use of natural resources. In contrast, poorly defined land use rights encourage conflicts between different population and land user groups and prevent investment in the conservation and restoration of biodiverse landscapes.

Project duration:
Australian dollar

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

9810000
Project duration:
to
Euro

General

0
Project duration:
Euro

General

To improve spatial plan processes and implementation to prevent deforestation and land degradation in Papua and West Papua provinces and help Indonesia deliver its emission reduction commitment through shifting development paradigm towards lower carbon pathways.

33700000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

The programme will address the challenges of deforestation and peat land degradation through investments to increase transparency and accountability, building capacity for spatial (land-use) planning, and engaging and mobilising the private sector in support of sustainable economic development. It does this by focusing on overcoming the critical governance failures for the sustainable management of forests and land-use

5200000
Project duration:
to
United States dollar

General

Increased capacity among policymakers in Amazonia to mobilise large-scale public/private funding through innovative financing mechanisms that enable the conservation and sustainable use of forests as natural capital (III), adaptation to climate change (II) & climate friendly economic development (I).

1350000
Donors:
Government of Germany, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

General

The project objective is to conserve forests as natural carbon stores and to establish carbon sinks through reforestation in the province of West Kalimantan. Working in collaboration with a forestry operation in the boundary zone of the national park, the project

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