About the series
The State of the World's Forests reports on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. It makes current, reliable and policy-relevant information widely available to facilitate informed discussion and decision-making with regard to the world's forests.
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The State of World's Forests - 1995 (SOFO)
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The State of World's Forests - 1997
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The State of World's Forests - 1999
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The State of World's Forests - 2001
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The State of World's Forests - 2003
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The State of World's Forests - 2005
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The State of World's Forests - 2007
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The State of World's Forests - 2009
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The State of World's Forests - 2011
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State of the World's Forests - 2012
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The State of World's Forests - 2014
Enhancing the socioeconomic benefits from forests
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The State of World's Forests - 2016
Forests and agriculture: land-use challenges and opportunities
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The State of World's Forests - 2018
Forest Pathways to Sustainable Development
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The State of World's Forests - 2020 (SOFO)
Forests, biodiversity and people
Latest issue: SOFO 2020
Forest, Biodiversity and People
As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) examines the contributions of forests, and of the people who use and manage them, to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Forests cover just over 30 percent of the global land area, yet they provide habitat for the vast majority of the terrestrial plant and animal species known to science. Unfortunately, forests and the biodiversity they contain continue to be under threat from actions to convert the land to agriculture or unsustainable levels of exploitation, much of it illegal.
The State of the World’s Forests 2020 assesses progress to date in meeting global targets and goals related to forest biodiversity and examines the effectiveness of policies, actions and approaches, in terms of both conservation and sustainable development outcomes. A series of case studies provide examples of innovative practices that combine conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity to create balanced solutions for both people and the planet.
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