Assessment of emerging employment and decent work opportunities and challenges in the forest sector

Kniivilä, M.; Katila, P.; Kallioniemi, M.; Salo, M.

Food & Agriculture Org., 12 dic 2024

This report assesses the potential impacts of megatrends on employment in the forest sector, focusing on both current employment and emerging opportunities. The study examines existing decent work challenges and identifies key issues likely to develop alongside these new opportunities. It also assesses the specific employment opportunities and challenges within different forest industry subsectors. Finally, the report offers policy recommendations based on existing literature, global examples and the potential impacts on youth and women.

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Sommario

1 Introduction	1

2 Current forestsector employment and employment issues in national strategies and policies	9

TABLE 1 Estimated number of persons employed in the forest sector and subsectors by region for the periods 20112013 a and 20172019 b Includes...	10

3 Decent work and related challenges in the forest sector	13

BOX 2 International Labour Organization ILO decent work indicators	14

TABLE 2 The countries with the largest forest areas columns and their status related to the International Labour Organization ILO eight fundamental ...	15

Uganda case study	16

4 Employment opportunities and challenges	19

BOX 6 Indigenous Peoples agents of climate change through decent work	22

BOX 7 Youth and agroforestry	27

BOX 8 Sustainable industrialization of the wood subsector in the Congo Basin recommendations of a regional study by the African Development Ba...	32

TABLE 3 Direct and total economic contribution of wildlife tourism in 2018 according to WTTC 2019	37

BOX 9 Contribution of Greater Kruger National Park GKNP on South Africas economy	39

5 Main findings and policy implications	41

References	49

Box References	60

BOX 4 International restoration initiatives	20

BOX 5 Women in forest tree and agroforestry FTA value chains	21

Box References	61

Parole e frasi comuni

activities agriculture agroforestry Asia assessment biodiversity bioeconomy carbon sequestration charcoal climate change conservation create decent work challenges deforestation demand for wood digitalization economic growth ecosystem services employment and decent employment opportunities energy environment environmental estimated Food Security forest area forest plantations forest products forest sector forest-based forest-related employment forest-sector employment fuelwood gender Geneva global forest green economy harvesting impacts important improve Indigenous informal employment International Labour Organization investment lack land large-scale Latin America Lippe livelihoods lower income countries markets migration million nature-based tourism needed NWFPs paper industry percent of global policies population potential programmes promoting pulp and paper regions restoration role Rome rural skills small-scale SMFEs social protection strategies sub-Saharan Africa subsectors Sustainable Development sustainable forest management timber tree planting trends Uganda UNECE United Nations urban value chains women and youth wood and wood wood products industry wood products manufacturing wood-based woodfuel

Informazioni sull'autore (2024)

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Titolo	Assessment of emerging employment and decent work opportunities and challenges in the forest sector
Autore	Kniivilä, M.; Katila, P.; Kallioniemi, M.; Salo, M.
Editore	Food & Agriculture Org., 2024
ISBN	9251393958, 9789251393956

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