The overall objective of the strategy is to increase the contribution of the forestry sector in combating poverty, economic, social and environmental development, addressing the improvement of people's well-being through the establishment of a modern forest industry, dynamic, competitive, articulated in value chains, based on forest plantations. The specific objectives are: to promote and encourage commercial plantations and industrial, large and small scale, efficient and competitive, environment and socially responsible with the purpose of reducing rural povery, through the production of raw material and modern forest products with high added value destined to national, regional and world market; in order to create jobs and alternative sources of income in rural areas, through forest plantations and associated economic activities; increase exports of forest products, particularly of modern forestry products based on forest plantations, thus contributing to the improvement of the balance of payments; encourage through education the like planting trees and establishing individual stands, community, for the production of self-consumption goods and services, income generation and the welfare of local communities; to encourage research and extension in forest plantations, especially in the areas of forest seed production, proper techniques of production plants in the nursery, establishment, conduct, management and protection of forest plantations, harvesting and industrial processing; to adapt the legal framework (Lands, Forests and Environment), strengthening and modernizing forest management for the development of forest plantations. In addition, it aims at enabling commercial small- and medium-scale production and processing enterprises to sustainably participate in markets and stimulate rural development through investment in forest plantations and support the participation in this activity, small and medium enterprises and local communities; to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of natural forests and environmental preservation, by planting fast growing species. This Strategy also aims to promote and encourage forest plantations of small and medium scale for energy production in view of reducing gradually the exploitation of firewood and charcoal in native forests; to promote and encourage protection of crops and conservation of fragile ecosystems, biodiversity, watersheds, erosion control, desertification, climate change mitigation at the national, regional and global levels.
莫桑比克 · 2009-07-01