The Restoration Initiative (TRI) in China has worked to facilitate the implementation and enforcement of forest landscape restoration (FLR) and sustainable forest management approaches in China’s State Forest Farms (SFF). China has over 4,000 SFFs, where management has tended to focus on maximizing timber production and planting a few high-yielding tree species. The project has engaged policy experts to equip them with recommendations, and analysis of forestry policies and subnational regulatory frameworks in three pilot provinces, Hebein, Jiangxi, and Guizhou. By providing forestry policymakers with policy analysis and recommendations, studying SFF’s governance structures that support FLR reform goals and technical tools that improve forest resource management, TRI China facilitated the development of policy milestones that provide policymakers with guidelines for SFF governance that prioritize FLR and sustainable forest management.  

TRI is a GEF-funded project