Agrifood systems solutions for halting deforestation

This course is primarily intended for government officials and stakeholders involved in developing and revising strategies for halting deforestation, and project design. This especially includes individuals from:

• Ministries of Environment and Forestry
• Civil society organization
• Private sector/sustainable agribusiness

• The essential contributions that forests make to food systems, biodiversity and climate.
• Synergies and trade-offs between agriculture, forestry and forest conservation.
• Commitments and challenges in reducing agriculture-linked deforestation.
• Proximate and underlying drivers of deforestation and their identification.
• Deforestation solutions and measures and how to identify and prioritize them.
• FAO’s Solutions-tree tool for information on systemic solutions.

The course consists of three lessons of approximately 30-45 minutes duration each:

• Lesson 1 – An introduction to agriculture-linked deforestation and forest degradation
• Lesson 2 – Identifying the agriculture-linked drivers of deforestation
• Lesson 3 – Identifying solutions to agriculture-linked deforestation

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