UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) wants 10 million new tree planting jobs
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that millions of new “green jobs” could be created worldwide by smarter approaches to forest management. The FAO claims that by investing in large-scale newtree-planting schemes and managing existing forests more effectively, countries could not only find employment for individuals who have lost their jobs in the downturn, but also tackle carbon emissions by addressing land-use change and land clearing.
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Increased investment in forestry could provide jobs in forest
management, agroforestry and farm forestry, improved fire management,
development and management of trails and recreation sites, expansion
of urban green spaces, restoring degraded forests and planting new
ones, according to the FAO.
Countries including the US and the
Republic of Korea have included forestry in their economic stimulus
plans. Developing and managing forests is also a key part of India’s
rural employment plan, according to the FAO.
As well as the economic benefits, better forest management and new tree planting could help tackle the environmental damage from reduced forest cover in some countries.
“This would help to reduce carbon emissions from land-use
change and could potentially have a larger positive impact on climate
change than any other initiative currently being planned or considered
by world leaders,” the FAO state
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Am a Forestor in Uganda who would like to work with you in the drive to plant more trees to secure our future, i hold a degree & diploma in Forestry and a practicing forestor.
if there are opportunites please do not hasitate to contact me
thank for what your are doing to the world
This is a laudable idea, the ideas are always there, implementors too are there, but they never meet making due to ignorance, negligence, greediness, sabotage, etc. This has left our planet and majority of earthlings poorer and poorer, subjecting the planet it to a gigantic experiment of pumping millions of Co2 into the atmosphere which results could be catastrophic.
I for one, is the MD for LJEL in Ghana and seeking for a startup funding for Cashew plantation project on a two miles square of land which could plant over 200,00 trees which could give employment to millions of people in the district where land has been secured. But who will fund this project when all search both home and abroad is proving futile.
I blame no one because, potential investors who could help have been duped various sums on the internet and would never click and read you advert so as to invest. To this end, I implore the UN to get more closely with grassroots people worldwide to implement good ideas like this which could eradicate poverty from the surface of the world.
The FAO idea is great, but it is left with how to make this a reality. Growing food trees like Cashew, mangoes, cocoa are good examples that could give employment to majority of people in the world. How can this big plan be implemented when it may take a lot of procedures and steps to raise loans from banks and elsewherewhich eventually will result in the right people not getting any access to loan/grant but the wrong people( you may understand)
Let there be light , and trees the FAO envisage will be there.