GFP Canopy Equity, CBM

Duration: 3 minutes and 35 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Documentary

Producer: IIED

Director: Isabelle Lemaire

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Posted by: gfpcanopy on Sep 17, 2009

GFP Canopy Equity, CBM

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The biggest threat to forests
are poverty and also large scale commercial agriculture
I think that one of the biggest area that we don't tackle is consumption
Today, in this world, those who have resources are making decisions
We must include indigenous communities
in all levels of the decision making processes on forests
I think it's very difficult if you take a large logging company
and a pygmy village
you have to deal with the fact that there are difference powers
It's a much bigger risk if you try to ignore those social movements
and they totally frustrate your projects
We can't manage our resources
as long as the populations concerned
don't benefit
If government can put in place, a real good policy
regulations and laws, that's the start of everything
In order to engage those communities
the government decided, "Let's give the control of resources to local communities"
Local communities getting together and forming associations
and they get into partnership with the private sector
for example, industries that use fuel wood
so they plant trees when they make sure that they can sell to them
Most of those projects are no longer there in terms of sustainability
With many things, governments get the money
and people that really are concerned
they don't see very much of that
I think that there is a very strong need to capacity building
for autonomous indigenous people's organizations
really, the network they've established themselves
This is their forest it really has a lot of value
Not only in terms of logging or bush meat
but other things and carbon credit they can get
without even cutting a single tree
Sometimes we arrive in places where people don't even know
it has value. It's others that come to exploit
With these resources, in many villages
we have seen communities that we able to
manage the forests that we returned to them
Often that's been done very badly
Now, that's been done badly because that's been done very quickly
It's often been done because it's cheaper
at the state level
but the tab gets picked up both in terms of loss of
forest degradation of forests, impacts on communities
The system has to benefit everyone including the most vulnerable
You can decide on an international level whatever you want
the reality shows that it's not implemented in the field
I think that the responsability we have at the international level
is to facilitate this dialogue
A partnership should always be on the same level, bilateral
so that there is not one "I am the giver"
"and yes you are the taker and you better do what I say"
You have to help us strengthen our governance and accountability mechanisms
but when it comes to the actual development work
it has to be done by us

GFP Canopy Equity, CBM

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