An AOF Social event with Florent Kaiser on "Accion Andina" - how indigenous communities are reviving their ancestral traditions to bring back their forests and water in the Andes.
Accion Andina: how indigenous communities are reviving their ancestral traditions to bringing back their forests and water in the Andes.
In 4.5 years, Accion Andina has grown into one of the largest community led restoration movements in South America, to date actively engaging over 25,000 people to protect and restore the marvelous native forests of the high Andes. This social will focus on the key elements (i.e. the restoration scaling principles) that made this journey possible and engage in a discussion about how this approach could help move restoration efforts forward in many areas of the world.
About Florent:
Florent Kaiser is the CEO of Global Forest Generation. He is a passionate “Ecopreneur” on a mission to implement effective solutions to protect and restore the world’s forests. He currently leads the development and scaling up of Accion Andina, a large-scale, grassroots-led, multi-country initiative to restore high Andean forests and ecosystems with local and indigenous communities. Florent is a member of the Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Tree Campaign 1t.org and advises the UN and many corporations and restoration donors on how to engage in effective restoration efforts world wide with highest quality and equity.
Prior to joining Global Forest Generation (GFG), Florent, a forest engineer by training, worked for major global forest organizations, including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) as well as has been involved in over 200 land use projects in different capacities worldwide. Florent’s passion is developing long-term, multi-sector and multi-stakeholder partnerships that can support, grow, finance and implement ecosystems restoration and regenerative systems globally.
Florent grew up in France and Germany. At the age of 19, he left Europe for Asia, spending five years in Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia, followed by eight years in Latin America (Honduras, Peru, and Mexico), where he gathered extensive field experience.
