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Acknowledgements............................................................................ 4
Foreword by Mr Sha Zukang, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development and United Nations
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs................... 5
Statement by Nikolaus Berlakovich, Federal Minister of Agriculture,
Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria..................... 9
Statement by Izabella Teixiera, Minister of Environment, Brazil........ 10
Statement by Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, Canada...... 11
Statement by Božidar Pankreti
ć
, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management,
Republic of Croatia.......................................................................... 12
Statement by Jari Koskinen, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry,
Finland............................................................................................13
Statement by Ilse Aigner, Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and
Consumer Protection, Germany....................................................... 14
Statement by Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of Environment and
Forests, Government of India........................................................... 15
Statement by Michihiko Kano, Minister for Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries, Japan........................................................... 16
Statement by Henk Bleker, Minister for Agriculture and
Foreign Trade, the Netherlands........................................................ 17
Statement by Lars Peder Brekk, Minister of Agriculture and Food,
Norway............................................................................................18
Statement by Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Secretary of Environment
and Natural Resources, Mexico........................................................ 19
Statement by Eskil Erlandsson, Minister for Rural Affairs, Sweden.... 20
Statement by Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, United
States Department of Agriculture, United States of America............. 21
Statement by Dr Jacques Diouf, Director-General, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations............................... 22
Statement by Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General
and United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director.... 23
Statement by Robert B. Zoellick, President of the
World Bank Group.......................................................................... 24
Statement by Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification............................................. 25
Statement by Irwin Larocque, Secretary-General, CARICOM............ 26
The International Year of Forests, 2011: inspiring action. ................ 27
Jan McAlpine, Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat
Dryland forests
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agroforestry and people in drylands:
a needed approach........................................................................... 31
Sergio A. Zelaya and Jasmin Metzler, UNCCD Secretariat
Global demands, local needs: a big picture approach to forests........ 35
Rachel Kyte, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank
From crisis to consensus: the future of forestry in
Asia and the Pacific.......................................................................... 40
Jack Hurd, Asia-Pacific Program Director, The Nature Conservancy and
Allison Bleaney, Communications and Partnership Manager, Responsible
Asia Forestry and Trade Program
Africa’s award-winning forest policies............................................... 45
Alexandra Wandel, Director of the World Future Council
Creating a nationwide movement for forests..................................... 48
Koki Okawa, Noriko Ishitobi, Hidetaka Ichikawa and Rikiya Konishi,
International Forestry Cooperation Office, Forestry Agency, MAFF, Japan
Strengthening national forest programmes....................................... 52
Ewald Rametsteiner, Food and Agriculture Organization and Jerker
Thunberg, National Forest Programme Facility
Forests for People............................................................................ 55
Dilip Kumar Periyapattanam Jayapal, Director General of Forests and
Special Secretary;Shri Radha Krishan Goel, Inspector General of Forests
and Subhash Chandra, Deputy Inspector General of Forests, India
Austria’s forests
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from regulations to cooperation
and partnerships.............................................................................. 58
Ingwald Gschwandtl, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry,
Environment and Water Management, National and International Forest
Policy and Forest Information, Austria
Sustaining societies through forests and trees: agroforestry and the
United Nations conventions............................................................. 61
Kate Langford, World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Cork oak: a unique agroforestry system............................................ 65
Conceição Ferreira and João Pinho, National Forest Authority, Portugal
Developing Estonia’s forest policy.................................................... 69
Marku Lamp, Head of Forest Department, Ministry of the Environment, Estonia
Multiple benefits from REDD+........................................................ 72
Wahida Patwa Shah, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi,
Kenya and Lera Miles, United Nations Environment Programme World
Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK
Forest protection and climate change............................................... 76
Gillian Allard, Susan Braatz and Beverly Moore, Forestry Communication
and Liaison Team, Food and Agriculture Organization
Development study of the forest carbon monitoring system using
remote sensing................................................................................. 78
Yoshiki Yamagata, Hasi Bagan, Akihiko Ito and Minaco Adachi, National
Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Global Environmental
Research, Japan
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