Sustainable Management and the Landscape Approach
New Generation Plantations (NGP) has for over a decade been demonstrating a variety of landscape approaches including agroforestry, natural forest restoration, and well-managed forest plantations - that have shown it is possible to restore biodiversity and ecosystems while producing livelihood benefits, producing timber efficiently and profitably, and contributing to socio-economic development. This session will take us through the NGP concept fundamentals and examples of a project’s implementation.
Luis Neves Silva - WWF, New Generations Plantations Lead
Luis Neves Silva is a Forest Engineer, specialised in Natural Resources Management, graduated from UTL-ISA (Lisbon). Luis heads the New Generation Plantations, working with the WWF Forests Forward program and the Landscapes Resilience Fund, in applying landscape approach to plantations inclusive development to meet the increasing demand from a bio-economy. Luis is a founder-partner of Terraprima Agrícola and NGPTA Lda, both focusing their activity on agriculture and forestry. Luis is also a member of the IUFRO Resilient Planted Forests Serving Society & Bio-economy Task Force, to improve the interface between science, society and policy related to planted forests.