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Terms of Reference for the DFID LPPB "Issues Paper" on Forests and Biodiversity 		 

 

DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

LINKING POLICY AND PRACTICE IN BIODIVERSITY

FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY ISSUES PAPER

Part I: The Context

  • What is biodiversity in forests, the patterns, quantities, qualitative if not quantitative changes, and the different values ascribed by groups. The scope would cover THF to woodlands, plantation forests, and touching on trees-on-farms. Max 8-10 pages. To include:
  • What forest biodiversity is; and its current state. Summary of current knowledge; tables. Geographical variations. Making some correlation with the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework and the capital assets approach i.e. forest biodiversity as a capital asset (i.e. natural).
    The different goods, services and attributes (utilitarian to include direct and indirect uses, and non-utilitarian) from forest biodiversity that are valued by different groups (tabular). Identifying which groups benefit i.e. some distinction between local and global benefits.
    How these biodiversity values are realised by different groups: i.e. the range of activities and how they contribute to livelihoods/sustainable economic sectors (directly and indirectly):
    • protection
    • (sustainable) use
    • conversion
  • Changes in forest biodiversity: qualitative mainly; explaining spatial (micro patches to global) and temporal (including reversibility) issues

Part II: the key issues facing forest-dependent stakeholders and authorities.

Approach: single out FOREST-RELATED issues/dilemmas of importance. These would cover technical, livelihood/economic, and policy/institutional aspects with case examples.

  1. Effects of changing forest biodiversity on different people (by reference to the affected biodiversity goods, services and attributes valued by these people, and the requirements of a sustainable livelihood (as defined by NRPAD) i.e. better income, increased well-being, reduced vulnerability, improved food security).
  2. Anthropogenic causes of changing forest biodiversity.
    • practice/technology
    • power relations and institutions (government and private sector)
    • policy and market signals and the values they ascribe to forest biodiversity
  1. A focus on key hot issues facing forest stakeholders today. Building on the framework of 5 and 6, we point to certain issues. There are three basic groups of them:
  • Challenges for better using forest biodiversity for sustainable livelihoods and development:
  • Technology of forest use and biodiversity management:
  • Institutional problems
  • Part III: what DFID might do to address the issues
  • Current approaches to resolving these issues inc. international policies and agreements, development co-operation, UK government partnerships, private sector partnerships etc.
  • DFID past approaches on the biodiversity/poverty interaction, and on the (10) issues noted above - at policy level and project level.
  • Obligations on DFID related to forest biodiversity e.g. BDC, FCCC, IPF, Agenda 21.
  • Opportunities for DFID

Project Manager: Izabella Koziell, DFID

Co-ordinator: Steve Bass, IIED

Co-authors: Colin Hughes and William Hawthorne, OFI

 

 
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