The Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) is in line with the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s Strategic Objectives (SOs), in particular those focusing on "Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable" (SO2) and "Increasing the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises" (SO5). Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) efforts (both at country and global levels) have to take into account a number of key issues or factors to be addressed:

• enabling environment for FLR (policies/laws);
• institutional setting;
• governance issues (tenure, local community involvement, etc.);
• improved livelihoods and food security and nutrition;
• assessment of degradation and restoration opportunities;
• technologies and approaches;
• analysis and evaluation of costs and benefits;
• capacity development, extension and dissemination;
• resource mobilization;
• private sector investment; and
• research needs.