CIFOR’s Director General, Peter Holmgren, gave this presentation on 8 April 2013 in Canberra, Australia.

1. Managing forests in the 21st century – A global view
Peter Holmgren, 8 April 2013

6. Shaping forests and
forestry for sustainable
development

7. Vision
CIFOR vision:
Forests on the agenda - Value of forests recognized
Decisions that influence forests and people supported by solid
science and principles of good governance

8. How it started
 Founded in 1993 after Earth Summit in
Rio de Janeiro; 2013 is 20th Anniversary
 Founding sponsors were Australia,
Sweden, Switzerland and the US
 Indonesia bid successfully to host CIFOR
headquarters in Bogor

9. CGIAR Research Programmes
 CIFOR is one of the 15 international research organisations in the CGIAR.
 The world’s largest research consortium on agriculture, forestry and fisheries –
2013 budget of USD 950 million
 CIFOR leads global programme on Forests, Trees & Agroforestry and contributes
to Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

10.  Poverty: How can forest and forestry contribute to the solutions?
 Food security, nutrition and health: Opportunities for sustainable,
equitable and effective provision of food, nutrients and medicine.
 Climate change: Forests and forestry are essential for climate change
mitigation and adaption.
 Biodiversity: Effective integration of conservation and development
 Production forestry for renewable materials and energy

11.  Sustainable landscapes: Forests are an integral part of
the landscape and essential for livelihoods as well as long-
term resilience and productivity of food systems. We must
bridge institutional boundaries and find integrated
solutions.
 Green growth: Policies for a green economy should
generate sustainable forest products and services, ensure
good governance of natural resources, and reduce poverty.

13. Forestry priorities are different
Green Livelihoods,
growth income
Forest
industry P oor
e
fa rm
r r
e Food &
Climate Fa rm
EDD ‐
R o nutrition
change
neg or
tiat
Env.
ngo
Biodiversity Agriculture
resilience

14. Livelihoods, income Food and nutrition Green growth
Climate change Biodiversity Agriculture, resilience

18. Landscape objectives & performance measures

21. Policy implications
• Cut across traditional sector boundaries in policy
interventions
• Support affordable and long‐term finance for
landscape investments
• Invest in research that address the landscape level
and make evidence‐based policies possible

23. Forestry in the 21st century
Wider public
Land‐based
WHO?
sectors’ people
Foresters
only
Forests Development
Landscapes
only goals
WHAT?

24. 1900 Multiple and
changing
objectives
2000
2100
?