During the next two days, 21 March and 22 March, we will be celebrating the International Day of Forests (IDF) and World Water Day (WWD) respectively. Forests and water are intrinsically linked. At FAO we work on the forest-water-nexus through numerous programmes and projects that bring together science, policy and...

From June 18th-24th, WeForest, FAO’s Forest and Water Programme, and GIZ organized a capacity-building workshop entitled ‘Building forest-water knowledge and capacity for Forest and Landscape Restoration’ in Mekelle, Ethiopia, with the goal of building forest-water monitoring capacity in the Tigray and Afar regions and beyond. Desa’a Forest, a national forest priority...

By encouraging people around the globe to explore nature-based solutions to 21st century challenges relating to water, World Water Day is making us take a fresh look at water and the factors leading, in parts of the world, to its increasing scarcity. These challenges include the growing demand for water...

The forest-water topic is a contentious one. There are few universal truths about forest-water relationships that can be applied widely for an array of ecosystems, in different regions, or across various scales. Our accepted wisdom relies on expert judgement and inference. The benefits and/or impacts of forests in relation to water...

A little more than a year has passed since approximately 20 international experts met for a three-day workshop at SIWI’s offices in Stockholm to develop indicators that measure forest-water relationships. The ambitious task responded to a repeated call to improve forest-water monitoring and evaluation, and the need to mainstream these...