Lessons learned from national socioeconomic surveys in forestry
Advancing conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests is key to making progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to monitoring biophysical conditions, mapping and measuring socioeconomic benefits from forests is critical to support policy-making that promotes improved targeting of SDG-oriented policies and to demonstrate contributions of forests to livelihoods. Obtaining socioeconomic information in forestry is essential to having a better understanding of the drivers of forest change and the extent to which individuals and communities rely upon forests and trees for meeting various needs ranging from livelihoods to well-being. A review of lessons learned from FAO’s involvement in forest-related socioeconomic data collection is presented, applying key steps of socioeconomic survey development and design, adapted from Neumann (2014), drawing on comparative experiences from eight countries. Key lessons are presented and recommendations made for future improvements to designing and implementing socioeconomic surveys as well as utilizing socioeconomic information in support of evidence-based policymaking. The review highlights that socioeconomic data collection as part of national forest inventory (NFI) efforts requires a clear focus on the objectives and purposes for collecting the data. Furthermore, it points to the importance of the choice of sampling frames and their effect on inferences about characteristics of forests and inferences about socioeconomic characteristics of the human population. Different institutional collaboration and data collection procedures have been piloted and developed, with varying success, to meet these challenges. Keywords: Socioeconomic surveys; forestry data; socioeconomic monitoring, national forest inventories; sampling frames ID: 3487337
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| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC1383EN http://www.fao.org/3/cc1383en/cc1383en.pdf |
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