(d) Encourage cross sectoral coordination, nationally and internationally, between the forest sector and other sectors, so as to identify and reduce impacts on forests from decisions taken outside the forest sector

(d) Facilitating cross sectoral coordination nationally and internationally between the forest sector and other sectors in order to reduce negative impacts on forests of decisions made outside the forest sector and to provide broad guidance and assist the development of national policies and legislation.

Some developed countries mention that they are considering reforms of the forest sector and new approaches to forest development based on decentralization and greater involvement by local populations.

In Norway, the Ministry of Agriculture has recognized the importance of increasing the female quota and influence within the forest sector as a whole, among forest owners, in organizations and in boards and councils.

This loss is more than three times greater than the level of ODA to the forest sector.

Decentralizations in the forest sector should begin by working with local people and by building on their institutions.

The Forest Service has also initiated outreach programmes to attract more women to forestry, and especially employment with the Forest Service, through forestry education and cooperative employment programmes.

In the forest sector, decentralization is only one of the tools for sustainable development, not a goal itself.

The role of women in the forestry sector in Canada has changed dramatically over the past 15 years.

It is essential to continue enhancing synergies among partners, particularly among the members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and to improve cooperation and policy and programme coordination in and outside the forest sector.

This tool would indicate the range of institutional, financial, economic and social issues that need to be addressed and conditions central to the building up of a negotiated consensus or agreement on forest sector decentralization.

Several initiatives are being taken to give opportunities to women in Mauritius to play a more active role in the forestry sector.

For decentralization in the forest sector, one can draw lessons from similar processes in other sectors such as health and education.

Decentralization in the forest sector should not be implemented in isolation from a general national forestry strategy such as national forest programs.

Research to improve scientific knowledge in the forest sector and in depth study of coastal zones was also reported as important.

The Workshop explored the effect of the decentralization of forest sector processes on social, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions around the world.

Farmers and forest owners also produce heat and electricity which they sell to small and medium sized enterprises in industry and the public service sector.

Women in Forestry is working to strengthen the influence and position of women in the forest sector and receives public funding in support of its work.

(b) Strengthen the horizontal cross sectoral linkages between the forest sector and other sectors at the global, regional, national and local levels.

Weak law enforcement often leads to illegal activities in the forest sector, causing economic, social and environmental loss.

Efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if degradation and natural resource depletion, including loss of forests and illegal activities in the forest sector, continue unabated.

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

Timber

Forests

forests

The study highlights formal and continuing education as well as the influence of a mentor as being important to the advancement of women in the forest sector.

Scenes of forest destruction, forest harvesting and forest fragmentation, thereby making that intact tapestry of the canopy unable to function in the marvelous ways that it has when it is not disturbed by humans.

The Forum may also wish to call on countries to create enabling conditions for private sector investments and encourage environmentally and socially responsible investments in the forest sector.

In this context, it would be desirable to undertake concrete measures to mainstream and integrate the forest sector with the appropriate component(s) of societal agenda and national planning

(d) Forests

Government agency hiring of women in the United States is guided by national and state law as well as policies that are not unique to the forestry sector.

Capacity building must be achieved by strengthening the awareness and skills of professional women and men in the forestry sector regarding gender sensitivity and mainstreaming.

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

Woodlands of the central region provide most of Bhutan's forest production.

More recently, the European Parliament earlier this month approved ambitious new transparency rules for the extractive industry (including the forestry sector).

The effective implementation of forest sector decentralization may depend on a basic national consensus regarding decentralization in general.

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The manufacturing sector. The service sector.

Forest conservation and protection of unique types of forests and fragile ecosystems

(h) Forest degradation

E. Forestry resources

D. Managed Forest

Tables Forestry Commission.

Back to the woods.

In those bushes.