Technical & networking sessions slot 2

Global Forest Coalition; ICCA Consortium; CENESTA; Brighter Green

The session will address the impact of unsustainable livestock farming on forests, landscapes, and community conservation. It will highlight how recognizing biocultural and other traditional conservation approaches by peasants and pastoralists, and respecting their land and territorial rights, can contribute to more sustainable forms of livestock farming that are in harmony with forest conservation and food sovereignty. In particular, the session will highlight the role of women in this respect. The session will also address the role of sustainable consumption and quantity-based policy measures in sustainable land use. Finally, the session will address the question whether a landscape approach might be able to undermine more transformative approaches to land use and land rights, and how it relates to territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs).

Three key sector- or issue-specific questions the panel will address:

1. Under what conditions can livestock farming be compatible with forest conservation?
2. Could a landscape approach undermine land rights?
3. Is a landscape approach compatible with transformative approaches to land use and land distribution?

Background reading:

1. Industrial Agriculture, Livestock Farming, and Climate Change http://globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MM_Brighter-Green-and-the-Global-Forest-Coalition_WSF_Industrial_Livestock-FINAL.pdf
2. CBD Recognition Guidelines Series No. 64, Recognizing and Supporing ICCAs, Global Overview and National case studies, http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-64-en.pdf
3. Recognizing Conservation by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, a legal review. http://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/images/stories/Database/legalreviewspdfs/synthesis_lr_report_engl.pdf
4. Non-market based approaches to Reducing deforestation and forest Degradation, http://globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Non-Market-Based-Approaches-to-Deforestation.-Report.pdf
5. The Jakarta Call, La Via Campesina, http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/our-conferences-mainmenu-28/6-jakarta-2013/resolutions-and-declarations/1428-the-jakarta-call

Contact details: simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org

Speakers

• Marcial Arias

  Senior policy advisor, the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest

• Kureeba David Mutsitsa

  Expert in forest policy, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Uganda

• Simone Lovera

  Executive director of the Global Forest Coalition

• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

  Coordinator of the Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad (AFPAT), member of the Executive Committee of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC)  

• Geoff Orme-Evans

  Environment and Climate Change Specialist at Humane Society International.

Moderator

• Andrey Laletin

  Founder and Board member of Friends of the Siberian Forests in Russia, and Chairman of the Board of the Global Forest Coalition

Rapporteur

• Isis Alvarez

  Ecologist and gender expert, the Global Forest Coalition, and the International Consortium on Indigenous Peoples and local communities' conserved territories and areas (the ICCA Consortium)