Forestry
Forests provide a variety of goods and services, at the global and local levels. At the local level, in many countries, they are an important source of food, fuel and fodder and overall livelihoods for local communities. Forests provide important global public goods functions of which climate change mitigation (through carbon storage) is currently the most high profile one. Yet, forests are also one of the least well-governed resources, suffering excessive destruction and consequent (and often irreversible) loss of contributions to timber, non-timber forest products, biodiversity and climate mitigation. This needs to be controlled and improving the quality of governance is a key challenge needing urgent redress in this context.
