The LoCoFoRest Training Programme – Locally Controlled Forest Restoration
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The LoCoFoRest training programme focuses on one critical question: How can we scale up restoration of forest landscapes while securing the prosperity of local communities and maintaining and improving ecosystem services? Find out more about LoCoFoRest and learn how you can participate in the programme.
Forest landscapes are set to play an increasingly important role as we transition from a world reliant on fossil-fuel to a circular bioeconomy. Well-managed, natural forests are key for climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as meeting the growing global demand for wood-based products.
LoCoFoRest will build capacity in national, regional and local institutions and organisations. The programme will give participants the skills and knowledge to enrich their organisations’ capacity to support local communities and entrepreneurs to make forest and landscape restoration scalable and to take advantage of new value chains and the growing demands of a biobased economy.
The training programme has five components:
- Web-based preparatory course
- Three weeks training in Sweden
- Mentoring support for a “change-project” project in the participant’s home countries.
- Annual restoration conference
- Follow up alumni and networking programmes in participating countries
For more information please contact Anders Malmer, a Programme Manager anders.malmer [at] skogsstyrelsen.se
