Cross-Sectoral Cooperation

Sustainable forest management requires cooperation across several sectors to ensure that sound policies and practices are not undermined by shifts in macroeconomic policy or activities in other sectors such as agriculture, energy, mining, and transportation.

PROFOR fosters mechanisms for coordinating policy across sectors by supporting National Forest Programmes or similar multi-sectoral processes. Its analysis highlights trade-offs as well as win-win situations where healthy forests generate local and global goods.