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 29 May 2019 The United Nations (UN) Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) is of key importance to FAO and the Forest and Farm Facility. As Jeffrey Campbell, FFF Manager explains, the Decade also presents FO and FFF with major opportunities to highlight the role of smallholder producers and the support provided to help them transform productive landscapes and natural resource systems. [more] |
 22 March 2019 Failing to make bigger investments in forest education will have economic, social and environmental consequences, particularly with regard to nature and trees, advises Matthias Schwoerer, Head of Division, European and International Forest Policy, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany. [more] |
 21 March 2019 Christoph Rullmann, Federal Managing Director, Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald, Bonn, Germany, discusses why in today’s world it is important to reconnect children with nature and to raise their awareness about the roles and benefits of forests and trees, by encouraging them to become forest friends. [more] |
 25 February 2019 Martin Weih, Chairperson of the International Popular Commission (IPC), explains the IPC’s mission to improve rural incomes and to improve the sustainable use and production of forest products and other ecosystem services. The IPC is a body for multilateral cooperation on forestry, with 38 member countries. [more] |
 25 July 2018 John Emmanuel Fa, Senior Associate at CIFOR, briefly describes the Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme and explains why it is such an innovative, collaborative and scalable initiative. [more] |
 24 July 2018 Bharati Pathak, General Secretary, Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal, explains that forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs), with the support of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), are helping to reduce hunger and poverty at the local level. [more] |
 23 July 2018 Mikhail Tarasov, Global Forestry Manager IKEA, explains that better market information, including details about buyers’ interests and requests, can help smallholder forest and farm producers, including indigenous groups, to better meet market demands while scaling up their work. Improvements to land-use regulations concerning forests as well as tenure rights are also important in supporting smallholders. [more] |
 23 July 2018 Ambassador Mario Arvelo Caamaño, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the UN Rome-based Agencies, and Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) guides us through the policy convergence process and the outcomes of CFS44 on “Sustainable Forestry for Food Security and Nutrition”. [more] |
 20 July 2018 Charles Nyanjul describes the comparative advantages of forest and farm producer organizations that make them so well placed to fight hunger, poverty and climate change. [more] |
 19 July 2018 Luc Gnacadja, former Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, explains the benefits of ecoagriculture, an ecosystem-friendly form of agriculture that delivers agricultural outputs while conserving biodiversity. [more] |
 13 December 2017 FAO Forestry Director, Eva Muller, talks about why forests are important to food security. [more] |
 12 December 2017 Upon the opening of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Week, Dominique Reed, FAO Team Leader of Social Forestry, talks about the potential of community-based forestry and its ability to address climate change. [more] |
 12 December 2017 Foday Bojang from FAO Ghana describes the experience of the Great Green Wall for the Sahel and Sahara Initiative. [more] |
 12 December 2017 Ousseynou Ndoye heads up a programme on forests and food security at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Cameroon. [more] |
 10 December 2017 Lee Ellenburg, Food Security and Agriculture Thematic Lead with SERVIR NASA, explains what his organization is doing to promote food security and how Collect Earth could enhance their work. [more] |
 10 May 2017 An estimated 1.5 billion forest and farm producers make up 90 percent of the world’s farmers. These producers supply approximately 80 percent of food supplies in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, managing 500 million family farms and approximately 30 percent of forest lands in the global south. [more] |
last updated: Wednesday, May 2, 2018