Forestry Research For Sustainable Forest Management

PP Bhojvaid,Director FRI

Forest Areas Management Wood and N WFP

Biodiversity

Rural and Urban Employment (Agro-forests)

Forest Health and Hygiene

Pollution and Bioremediation

Soil & Water ( PES)

Carbon Sequestration (climate Change)

Sustainable Forestry

Vision

• Sustainable Management of Nation’s Forests and the trees outside Forests that is

• inclusive of society,

• ensures conservation of valuable biodiversity and ecosystems and

• allows equitable use of all the goods and services to all stakeholders.

Conservation Development

Balancing Pressures on ForestsBalancing Pressures on Forests

ChallengesDegradation of biodiversity and life support systems

Food and water securityEver mounting Population pressure on natural resources

Forest Dependence syndrome

Sustainable Management

Paradigm Shift: Focused Management

• Conservation Forests: Management in partnership with local communities for National Ecological Security including biodiversity for subsistence needs of present and future generations…informal sector

• Restoration Forests: Management in partnership with communities with a shift from JFM to CFM mode for NTFP and wood products…informal sector

Paradigm Shift: Focused Management

• Production Forests: Management in partnership with communities and investment from wood and forest based industries…formal sector

• People :Public: Private

• Forest corporations: People: Industries

• Sale of land to industries?

• Innovative Financial Institutions

Research aspects

• Holistic• Social, cultural (equity, interface, political)• Legal- policy (national and international)• Ecological (ecosystem structure and function)• Technical (production to utilization)• Both basic and applied

Research

• Institute (institutes)• Human resource• Infrastructure• Financial resources• Mission Vision and directions• Cross sectoral linkages

Paradigm Shift (game of Cricket)

• Long rotation to short rotation• Active interface with stakeholders• Checks and measures externals• Media and legislation• Civil Society• Global monitoring• Mix of classical sustained yield forestry and

modern ecosystem approach

Changes in management systems

• Knowledge of specific to general to global is become essential

• Silos need to be broken• Interrelations to become stronger• Adequate growing space at lower and middle

levels

Paradigm Shift: Focused Management

• Payment of environmental Services: Geographic Dimension of Growth and Development

• Valuation ….institution……payment….mechanism• Variation in Development• Smart Payments

• Climate change and Forests: Opportunities and challenges• Adaptation and mitigation: drought and productivity• Low volume High Value tropical Crops (MP)• Smart subsidies for agro/farm forests..sequestration• Afforestation and reforestation

Forest transition

Changes in attitude toward

forests

Changes in usage of forest

products

Changes in interface

between forests and other

macro systems

Changes in forestry and

forest management

practices

Changes in formal

evaluation and social scrutiny mechanisms

Forest Transition

Paradigm Shift: Focused Management

• Climate change and Forests: Opportunities and challenges• Adaptation and mitigation: drought and productivity• Low volume High Value tropical Crops (MP)• Smart subsidies for agro/farm forests..sequestration• Afforestation and reforestation

• Issues• Policy• NAPCC• Green India Mission

Paradigm Shift: Focused Management

• JFM to CFM: empowerment of stakeholders• Value addition in the Ecosystem: subsistence to

livelihood..tie up interest of ecosystem people• Special approach to Rural sectors • Interface between science, technology and environment

ICFRE Initiatives

• National Forestry Research Plan 2000 identified

• R & D Issues– Sustainability– Technology– Extension – Education …..on the lines of

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Programme,WRI,Washington

ICFRE Initiatives ….research needs.

• Resource Inventory and Quantitative Assessment

• Sustainable Harvesting Regimes• Storage and Value-additions• Marketing• To ensure sustained productivity and

economic gains to stakeholders

R & D Issues….technological interventions

• Technologies– Simple, – Energy efficient, – Environmental Friendly

• Adaptable by people– Medicinal and Aromatic Plants– Natural Dyes– Gums, Starches and Flocculants– Bio-fertilizers– Bio-pesticides

• Can be with help from SFDs and (KVIC,CAPART)

Extension

• Demonstration and Pilot plants• Exhibitions and kisan melas• Manuals and guides• Research Publications• Trainings for capacities• education

• Thanks !