Community-based Fire Management - Strengthening community-based solutions for managing wildfire for healthy, resilient landscapes in the Asia-Pacific region

Department of Agriculture Forest Builds the capacity of Service, is collaborating with a wide communities and governments to range of partners in biodiversity- manage forest fires and adapt to rich countries in the Asia-Pacific climate change in Cambodia, Lao region, starting with sites in Lao PDR, PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. [...] cooperative agreement between the USDA Forest Service and RECOFTC recoftc.org/ projects/cbfim Why the project is important for the region About the approach Extreme forest fires are threatening human health by poisoning Community-based fire the air we breathe and destroying forests that sustain local management as an approach livelihoods and biodiversity. [...] The UN their local knowledge and Environment Programme predicts a global increase of extreme prepares them to prevent, fires of up to 14 percent by 2030, 30 percent by the end of 2050 help control and utilize and 50 percent by the end of the century. [...] The transboundary impact of smoke and haze from needs and to define their fires shows us the severity and scope of this global issue. [...] The project will: Strengthen community-based Assessing policies, practices, stakeholder fire management policy, awareness, capacities and priorities planning and practice by Building capacity for developing and implementing community-based fire management plans Promote community-responsive Ensuring tools and technologies are development and use of shaped by the needs and experiences technologies b.