Due attention
Of late, the international community has been focussing a lot on the special needs of African countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The fourth UN Forest Forum (UNFF) was no exception.
The panel on Africa highlighted the social and economic importance of sustainable forest management for rural and subsistence African communities. The panel's recommendations to the high level Economic and Social Council of the United Nations meeting to held in July 2004 include improving the state of scientific knowledge on Africa's forests, protecting the knowledge of its indigenous people and developing the forest product industry of the continent and increasing trade in such produce.
The discussion on SIDS focussed on the challenges to sustainable forest management in low-lying areas. Some of the panel's recommendations, which will serve as an input into the ten-year review process of the implementation of Barbados Programme of Action for sustainable development in SIDS, include mobilisation of international support through finance, technology transfer and capacity building, the setting up of a special forestry network to facilitate exchange of information amongst SIDS and addressing special needs of Caribbean SIDS through the Caribbean Development Bank.
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