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FAO / FOREST SOFTWARE

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a new software that is expected to help significantly in the fight against climate change. The "Open Foris" software will enable countries to conduct comprehensive forest inventories so that they understand the value of their forest resources and how best to manage them. FAO
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STORY: FAO / FOREST SOFTWARE
TRT: 2.57
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /VIETNAMESE /NATS
DATELINE: RECENT

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RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – SONG DONG, VIETNAM

1. Various shots, aerial shot of the forest
2. Various shots, women working in field
3. Aerial shot, cleared/deforested mountain area
4. Wide shot, women working in rice field

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – HANOI, VIETNAM

5. Med shot, street
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anssi Pekkarinen, Forestry Officer, FAO
“To reduce emissions from deforestation, countries must first know how much forests they actually have, how much carbon it contains and how much of that is being lost.”

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – SONG DONG, VIETNAM

7. Aerial shot, Vietnamese forestry researchers walking inside forest
8. Various shots,orestry researchers with locals assessing canopy cover

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – HANOI, VIETNAM

9. Close up, data expert working on computer
10. Close up, hands typing on computer keyboard
11. Zoom in, “Open Foris Collect” software on computer screen

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

12. Various shots, Tanzania’s National Forestry inventory (NAFORMA) data center at FAO offices in Dar Es Salaam

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – ROME, ITALY

13. Med shot, FAO staff trying out Open Foris Collect Mobile on their ipads/smartphones
14. Close up, hand holding smart phone
15. Close up, “ Open Foris Calc” software on computer screen
16. Various shots, workers behind computers

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – SONG DONG, VIETNAM

17. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese), Ho Manh Tuong, National Forest Assessment (NFA) Project Coordinator:
“It enables us to calculate variables and changes to the forest and tree resources within a certain period, as well as changes to other environmental values of the forests such as carbon pools, biodiversity and non-timber forest products. Through the program, the complete national forest stock can be assessed.”
18. Wide shot, Vietnamese researchers walking through forest
19. Med shot, researchers measuring trees
20. Close up, researchers face
21. Close up, recording measurements on paper forms
22. Wide shot, researchers working
23. Med shot, researcher painter red marker onto tree
24. Back to interview with Ho Manh Tuong, National Forest Assessment (NFA) Project Coordinator
25. Various shots, Forestry researchers at work

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

26. Med shot, researcher measuring tree canopy
27. Close up, denisometer for measuring tree canopy
28. Wide shot, Tanzanian researcher measuring tree diameter
29. Med shot, measuring tree diameter
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rogers E. Malimbwi, Forestry officer, FAO Tanzania:
“We can already see change of rainfall pattern, that’s already obvious. It comes when it’s not expected and when it comes it’s too much than what is needed by farmers. So this really affects the food security.”

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – HANOI, VIETNAM

31. Med shot, data expert working on computer
32. Zoom in, into the computer screen with data

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

33. Close up, woman working on computer

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – HANOI, VIETNAM

34. Med shot, over-the-shoulder shot, Vietnamese data analyst works on computer
35. Med shot, analyst at work

RECENT – DATE UNKNOWN – SONG DONG, VIETNAM

36. Aerial shot, thick forest in Vietnam

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Storyline

One hundred and fifty kilometers east of Hanoi lies Son Dong district. Lush verdant forests cover many of the hilltops while much of the low-lying land has been deforested for timber or agriculture.

Deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries are a major contributor to global green house gas emissions that cause climate change. Vietnam, as one of 30 countries at ‘extreme risk’ in terms of their vulnerability to climate change, is taking action to reduce its emissions.

SOUNDBITE (English) Anssi Pekkarinen, Forestry Officer, FAO
“To reduce emissions from deforestation, countries must first know how much forests they actually have, how much carbon it contains and how much of that is being lost.”

These Vietnamese field workers have come to measure vegetation as part of the country’s comprehensive forest inventory. They’re collecting information on the canopy cover and the number, size, species and quality of the trees.

They interviewed the local population about their use of forest resources.

Back at the office, they then entered the data into the "Open Foris Collect" software.

The software is also being used in Tanzania and several other tropical nations.

The need to input data collected on paper forms will soon be eliminated with the launch of OpenForis Collect Mobile, which will enable field workers to enter data directly into a database via a smartphone device.

A separate software, ‘Open Foris Calc’, is then used to process the data. As Vietnam is the first country to use the calculation tool, its being assisted by the Open Foris software experts, based at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. The software enables them to analyse and visualize the data that’s been collected and report the results.

SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese), Ho Manh Tuong, National Forest Assessment (NFA) Project Coordinator:
“It enables us to calculate variables and changes to the forest and tree resources within a certain period, as well as changes to other environmental values of the forests such as carbon pools, biodiversity and non-timber forest products. Through the program, the complete national forest stock can be assessed.”

Once tropical nations know more about their forests and can use this information to increase their forest resources and the carbon stocks stored in those forests, then they stand to gain financially from the Reducing Emissions through deforestation and forest degradation initiative, also known as REDD+.

They also stand to gain directly from the reduced threat of climate change.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rogers E. Malimbwi, Forestry officer, FAO Tanzania:
“We can already see change of rainfall pattern, that’s already obvious. It comes when it’s not expected and when it comes it’s too much than what is needed by farmers. So this really affects the food security.”

The wealth of information being gathered by national forest inventories in Vietnam, Tanzania and three other countries at the moment, as well as the processing tools provided by Open Foris, will help inform better policy making that supports both forest conservation and sustainable forest management.

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