{"id":1596,"date":"2018-02-21T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalchangeecology.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2018-06-25T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:50:32","slug":"united-youth-to-halt-deforestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalchangeecology.com\/2018\/02\/21\/united-youth-to-halt-deforestation\/","title":{"rendered":"United Youth in Rome to halt deforestation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buongiorno Roma! Two GCE students,\u00a0Carla Madue\u00f1o<\/a> and Alicia Medina<\/a> from Peru, have been selected to participate in the Youth Workshop and Halting Deforestation Conference at FAO headquarters in Rome from February 19th to 22nd, 2018.<\/p>\n

The Capacity Development Workshop held on Monday February 19th, was led by the International Forestry Student Association (IFSA<\/a>), the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF<\/a>) and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF<\/a>) and trained 50 international Youth delegates<\/strong> on accelerating efforts to halt deforestation. Furthermore, Youth proposals were collected for later High Level UN Political Agendas.<\/p>\n

Halting or not halting deforestation, that is the question<\/h2>\n

Forests<\/strong> <\/span>are our best asset to combat climate change and they are key in securing food, water and ecosystem services for mankind survival. Despite of their fundamental role to sustain life on this planet<\/strong>, we keep on losing them at terrifying annual rates.<\/p>\n

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With the current rate of deforestation, there will be no forests left within the next 100 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Given that deforestation is in the eyes of a conservationist an ecological tragedy and in the eyes of the investor a money-making opportunity, we need to reconcile<\/strong> these opposing interests.<\/p>\n

Youth ideas feed UN Plan for Forests<\/h2>\n

In order to contribute to and accelerate global forest goals and SDGs, the workshop in the morning of February 19th led by Wageningen University (Netherlands) collected Youth proposals for the Halting Deforestation Conference (CPF). Discussions went about how to have an integrated management of lands at the landscape level: where different actors of society, different land use types and different instutional frameworks are best combined to ensure forests protection and sustainable management.<\/p>\n

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Youth Workshop morning session. Photo by Carla Madue\u00f1o<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Desmitifying Gender in Forest Conservation Efforts<\/h2>\n

After the morning session on the Landscape approach, the noon session led by Taylor Tondelli (FAO) touched with the Youth delegates on the importance of mainstreaming gender in efforts to halt deforestation. To see, what we did exactly, check out the video below.<\/p>\n

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De-mystiying gender in the halls of @UNFAO<\/a>. Committed to mainstreaming gender in our efforts to #HaltDeforestation<\/a>. Oh, how we're shaking this #CoconutTree<\/a>. @IFSAdotnet<\/a> @GlobalLF<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/70bQZHS6Er<\/a><\/p>\n

— Salina Abraham (@salina_abraha) February 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n