Forests and water
Welcome to the web site of the Forests and Water Programme of FAO’s Forestry Department.
In this site you will find information on:
our programme and its objectives, current activities, and future prospects; the internal linkages and collaborations that we are developing with other FAO units; our activities to support international processes and networks ; our recently completed and ongoing field projects .
You may also access technical briefings on the core issues in our programme:
The new generation of watershed management Forest hydrology Upstream/downstream linkages Mountain ecosystems
And the the web-pages of the
European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds . Additional resources in this site include:
publications issued by our programme and sister initiatives; a number of case studies on forests, water, watershed management and sustainable mountain development; an archive from which you can access and download a selection of papers and documents related to our programme and the core issues at stake.
