| Summary: | Intending to contribute to its diffusion, the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry
publishes this edition of the National Forest Development Plan, NFDP, proposed three years
ago.
The importance of the Plan is relevant, since it will guide Colombian forest proceedings for the
next 25 years. It is a State's policy with a long-term vision. The Environment Ministry, External
Trade Ministry, Economy Development Ministry, Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry
and the National Planning Department contributed to its design and worked together with the
private sector, the Academy, the communities and other actors related to the country's forest
sector.
Through the Plan, Colombia is attending a responsibility of strategic importance for its
population well-being: the natural or planted forest is a first order regulator of different natural
phenomenon that are affecting the planet's stability. This is the reason why the forest theme is
a principal matter of diverse world conventions. Such is the case of the United Nations
Conventions on Climate Change, Biologic Diversity, Struggle against Deserting and Drought,
so as, the Special Intergovernmental Group for Forests Open Composition (1FF), and the
United Nations Forum for Forests (UNFF).
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