NFMA

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FAO Support to National Forest Monitoring and
Assessments (NFMA)
NFMA Status and Adaptation to Change
NFMA Climate Change, COFO, 18 March
2009 Mohamed Saket
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Inconvenient truth

• Fast facts
• NFI OR monitoring assessment processes
• How reliable what we know about extent of world
  forest, change GHG emissions?
• Countries have insufficient capacity to develop
  and sustain forest monitoring and assessment
  systems

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As a result

• There is no information reliable, complete and in
  the format which meets
• National users needs for national policies
  planning
• Reporting to the international processes
• Weak readiness of countries for GHG reporting or
  MARV under expected REDD mechanism

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FAOs Response

• Strengthen FAOs activities
• Respond to countries requests and assist them in
  building capacities in NFMA reporting
• Develop cost effective, wide encompassing
  integrated approach
• Prioritise countries information needs for
  policies, strategic planning from inter-sectoral
  perspective, donor/investment planning
  international reporting
• Support implementation of international
  agreements in methodologies, particularly
  strengthening countries readiness for UNFCCC
  GHG reporting

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NFMA Process
Policy Reporting Needs D a t a c
o l l e c t i o n I n f
o r m a t i o n
NFI Systematic Field Sampling
National Policies Strategic Planning (poverty,
food security, livelihood, SFM, Climate Change,
etc) and International processes UNFCCC, CBD
etc.
Biophysical and Socio-economic properties of
forest and trees outside forest
Information

• Land use, land use change and forest (Area area
  change)
• Drivers of LU change
• Forest and tree attributes (volume, biomass,
  carbon, biological diversity, health
• Products services, use, users, management
• Maps (spatial distribution of resources
  fragmentation, etc)

National Forest Monitoring Assessment
Mapping Remote sensing
Land use maps and area statistics (high precision
of rare events e.g. change monitoring)
Wall-to-wall or Sampling based
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NFMA Way Forward and priorities

• Prepare FAO NFMA programme to be the reliable
  tool land uses and forest covers (MARV) from
  broad REDD perspective
• Meeting changing policy exigencies new
  international reporting requirements
• Livelihood, peoples needs relation with natural
  resources stronger emphasis on poverty food
  security issues
• Land use and forest cover changes (deforestation
  forest degradation) their drivers

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NFMA Way Forward and priorities

• NFMA approach will continue to improve through
  expert consultations, partnerships feedback
  from field projects
• Methodological improvement
• Intensifying sampling when possible for improved
  precision of rare events
• Improving interview component socio-economic
  data analysis
• Reinforcing remote sensing land use maping
  area change analysis
• Expanding biophysical data to cover better carbon
  pools in forest ecosystems
• Improving data integration with models,
  particularly for soil carbon estimates for GHG
  reporting
• Closer collaboration with research institutions
  researchers
• International regional expert networks for
  awareness raising and coordinated work in
  countries and across regions on NFMA
• Cooperation/partnerships with initiatives/donors..
  ..
• Data-sharing dissemination

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NFMA Experience on Costs

• Cost US 0.3 6 Millions, ( US 3,000/sample
  unit Tract)

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Estimates Sources Level of Precision
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NFMAs Completed and in Progress
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Pending Requests
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Further information on NFMA
http//www.fao.org/forestry/site/nfma
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• Thanks!