This presentation by CCAFS, The Forest Dialogue and the International Forestry Resources and Institution talks about the "4Fs Initiative" (Food, Fuel, Fiber, Forests), what the challenges are, what the targets are and shows an example from Brazil on how it's done.

1. Welcome to Technical Session 1.6
Managing Landscapes for Food, Fuel, Fiber and Forests:
Innovative approaches in a time of food insecurity and climate change
Sponsored by:
Climate Change, Agriculture
and Food Security
The Forests Dialogue
International Forestry Resources
and Institutions

2. “As we get closer to 2050, maintaining a near
zero deforestation rate will require forestry
and farming practices that produce more with
less land, water and pollution…”
The 4Fs Initiative
Gary Dunning
Executive Director
The Forests Dialogue

3. The Forests, Food, Fuel and Fibre
(4Fs) Challenge
2010
Logged forest
Farmland
Plantation
Unlogged forest
Other ecosystems

4. The Big Squeeze
Do Nothing in 2050
High greenhouse
gas emissions
Huge decline
in biodiversity

5. Our 4Fs Challenge
- Agricultural expansion
leading deforestation;
- Food security clashing
with mitigation and
conservation;
- Lack of engagement
between land use
interests and climate
initiatives.

6. The 4Fs Initiative
“for fairer, more sustainable land-use choices”
- Engage: Create platforms
for dialogue among forest
and agriculture
stakeholders.
- Explore: Support research
on key challenges.
- Change: Improve land-use
decision making processes
on the ground and promote
a landscape based
approach.

7. 4Fs Initiative Targets
- Build cross-sectoral, multistakeholder platforms to drive
innovative landscape approaches
at national and international levels
- Identify best practice with
landscape-level land-use decision
making
- Engage commodity supply chain
to broaden support and move
certification towards a more
landscape based approach
- Greater coordination between
interventions

8. 4Fs in Brazil
www.theforestsdialogue.org

9. Challenges
- intensify land-use without causing
environmental or social harm?
- conduct integrated, participatory
and rights-based land-use
planning?
- better value ecosystem services
when making land-use decisions?
- support family based sustainable
farming?
- change consumption patterns?
- create international standards
and policies that help?

10. Ways Forward
- National platform for
engagement on 4Fs
- Integrated and participatory
land-use planning
- Support for family farming
- Local to global supply chain
management
- Improved governance
- Coordinate international
guidance on land use

11. Thank You!
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