Episode 17: A FSC relevant for communities, smallholders and Indigenous Peoples with Vera Santos, New Approaches Program Manager and Francisco Souza, Managing Director, FSC Indigenous Foundation - a podcast by FSC International

Episode 17: A FSC relevant for communities, smallholders and Indigenous Peoples with Vera Santos, New Approaches Program Manager and Francisco Souza, Managing Director, FSC Indigenous Foundation
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This episode focus on smallholders, communities and indigenous peoples and their role of in the new FSC Global Strategy. The episode also concludes our mini series on the FSC Global Strategy.

The episode dives into is why it is so important that FSC focus on smallholders and indigenous peoples. A lot of the answer lies in the fact that Indigenous Peoples manage one quarter of the earth and that their territories across the globe contains more than 80% of our most important biodiversity hotspots. In total smallholders, communities and Indigenous Peoples manage more than 500 million hectares of forests worldwide. And yet only 11 million hectares of that area is certified today.

It will be central for FSCs ability to achieve the longterm strategy goals of growth and recognition of forest true forest value, that we are able to solutions which are fit for indigenous peoples, communities and smallholders.

But what are those solutions and what are the specific indicators of success? That is what I talk to Vera Santos, the Program Manager for New Approaches in FSC and with Francisco Souza, the Managing Director of the FSC Indigenous Foundation about in the episode.

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