The Forest Kingdom, a vision for jobs and growth in a green economy. Karin Östberg, Swedish Forest Agency

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1 The Forest Kingdom, a vision for jobs and growth in a green economy Karin Östberg, Swedish Forest Agency

2 Today s topics The Swedish forest policy This is The Forest Kingdom Grow with the forests financial support to entrepreneurs Advisory services e.g. forest cleaning Gender equality/skills provision

3 The Swedish Forest Policy Based on the equal value of environmental and production objectives. A lot of freedom and a lot of responsibility

4 The Forest Kingdom Based on sustainable use and management of forests. The government s platform for the forest sector to use, promote and create increased profitability of our forests many values. The whole of Sweden should be alive. Launched 2012 and running until 2015

5 The Forest Kingdom s main branches Sustainable use of forests Processing and innovation Experiences and recreation Sweden in the world

6 Sustainable use of forests Higher yield Biodiversity Social values Gender equality

7 Processing and innovation Forest entrepreneur easy, fun and profitable Increasing sustainable use of forest and wood raw material Increasing production yield through processing innovations

8 Experiences and recreation Development and growth of businesses in the adventure tourism trade Increased knowledge about forests cultural heritage Proper knowledge about the Right of Public Access

9 Sweden in the world Sweden is not an isolated forest island Promote the Swedish forestry model and its benefits Targeted 20 % export increase from the forest sector by 2020.

10 The Forest Kingdom an arena for cooperation at the provincial level Development of the provinces economy with the forest as a base and its specific activities Collaboration driven by the provincial authorities and the Swedish Forest Agency supported by industry representatives and researchers Pioneered by the Västerbotten province

11 The Forest Kingdom - Västerbotten 5 focus areas: Climate change conscious forestry Sustainable forestry Adventure and tourism Gender equality Integration of immigrants

12 Grow with the forests Financial support to small enterprises dependent of forests Added value and innovation Adventure tourism and recreation Create conditions for jobs dependent of forests Business development and establishment

13 Examples of ideas which have been realised with grants from Grow with the Forests Investment in planing equipment Development of wooden bricks for building Technique for avoiding splintering during sawing Preparation of a forest area for walks in combination with cheese tasting Building cabins for small events and lodging New type of wooden shelters

14 Advisory services e.g. forest cleaning In 2012 an analysis of the need for cleanings was carried out using satellite imagery cleaning index forest owners received a letter informing them their forests were in need of cleaning In forest consulting was offered as well as education on how to order cleaning operations

15 The effect - more cleaning done, more jobs In 2013 a post cleaning campaign evaluation was conducted 1000 forest owners interviewed Result: Increased cleaning activity on approx. 10,000 ha Increased labour intensity 4,200 days conducted by entrepreneurs 12,000 labour days for cleaning conducted by forest owners themselves Cleaning campaign continues during 2014

16 Efforts made for gender equality education Order forest entrepreneurial services - Skills development on how to order entrepreneurial services for forest operations many female participants and part of the Rural Development Programme Forest in the school

17 The Forest Kingdom and a forthcoming National Forest Programme Next steps Continuing the broad commitment for and results from The Forest Kingdom Spring 2014, Government Bill proposing a dialogue process for a National Forest Programme Long-term, strategic work to develop a Swedish forest program, further facilitating the contribution of forest and its value-chain to a growing biobased economy

18 The Forest Kingdom Thank you for your attention! Karin Östberg (M.Sc. in Forestry) Project Manager office ph