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Stronger policy support needed to reap the benefits of growing trees near crops

"Agroforestry isn't a ‘no man's land' between forestry and agriculture and should receive specific policy support," FAO Deputy Director-General, Climate and Natural Resources, Maria Helena Semedo said today. [more]

News from FAO Forestry: InFOflash 11

Follow highlights of the work of FAO Forestry and its partners in the latest issue of the Department's InFOflash. [more]

African countries work to create incentives for reducing illegal logging through domestic market demands

Representatives from six African countries are meeting in Abidjan to discuss ways to fight against the illegal timber trade through domestic markets at a two-day meeting supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). [more]