Work is underway in Sudan to help the country reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and pursue low-carbon development through creation and implementation of National Forest Inventory (NFI) as a necessary step towards REDD+ readiness.

Sudanese NFI teams have been in the field in North Kordofan State since May 2017, collecting data under a Technical Assistance Agreement signed between the Government of Sudan and FAO late last year.  Under that agreement, FAO is supporting Sudan’s Forests National Corporation (FNC), part of the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, to also design and implement a measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) system for REDD+.

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