XIV World Forestry Congress (WFC 2015)

The XIV World Forestry Congress (WFC 2015) is dedicated to forests for socio-economic development and food security, building resilience with forests and integrating forests and other land uses.

Key Topics

• Acknowledging forests` cultural and recreational roles
  • Public perceptions of forests
  • Traditional forest-related knowledge
  • Art and forests
  • Archaeology, anthropology and forests
• Putting people at the centre
  • Organizing people and communities for greater local control in forestry
  • Boosting forest income to improve food security and nutrition
  • Forests and trees as drivers of socioeconomic development
  • Involving women and youth in sustainable forest management
  • Wildlife in local livelihood development
  • Managing forest-related conflicts
• Forests as buffers against environmental change
  • Forests and water
  • Forests and climate change
  • The conservation of forest biodiversity
• Accounting for the multiple benefits of forests
  • Forests and the bioeconomy
  • Forests in national economic measures
  • Forest environmental services
• The role of forests in sustaining landscapes
  • Forests and landscape restoration
  • Addressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation
  • Planted forests versus forest plantations - a new era of forest management
• Increasing forest resilience to natural disasters and shocks
  • Pests, diseases, fire and floods
  • Restoring the resilience of forests in drylands
• Integrating approaches to landscape management
  • Agroforestry and trees outside forests
  • Finding synergies between forestry, agriculture, water and energy
  • The role of urban forests in fuelling and feeding cities and providing environmental and social services

Who should Attend

Senior attendees from government organizations, NGOs, private companies, scientific or professional bodies, a forestry societies and others interested in forestry.