The The Earthbird Series.
Primary education

by Jared C. Crawford, Louise E. Buck
Rome, October 1992-1993
Pages 20 each one

The Earthbird Series provides colourful cartoon magazines that raise awareness among young people of the importance of forests, threats to forests and sustainable resource management. The magazines explore such issues as forest products, food security, nutrition and community-based natural resource management. The cartoon magazines are designed for use in schools and include teacher's notes that provide activities to reinforce the messages of the magazines, and to help teachers lead their students in exploring the issues raised in the magazines

Community-based forest resource conflict management.
Training of trainers

By Katherine means and Cynthia Josayma
Forestry Policy and Institutions Branch (FONP)
Forestry Policy and Planning Division (FON)
FAO
Rome, 2002
Pages 321
Vol. 1
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/005/Y4300E/Y4300E00.HTM
Vol. 2
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/005/Y4301E/Y4301E00.HTM

This training package examines conflict within forest resource use and community-based forest management and offers strategies for managing it. It aims to support diverse and multiple forest user groups to manage conflicts that inevitably arise in the protection, use and control of forest resources. It has been prepared primarily for trainers who help people and organizations that work collaboratively in community forestry.

Contact: VanLierop Pieter
Forestry Policy and Institutions Branch (FONP)
Forestry Policy and Planning Division (FON)
FAO
Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100
Rome, Italy
VanLierop@fao.org

Knowledge Reference for National Forest Assessments.
Teachers training

by FAO, IUFRO Division 4 and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden, November 2004
http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/nfa-ref/index.jsp?siteId=2582&sitetreeId=7109&langId=1&geoId=0

This website provides a world-wide resource for foresters, scientists, teachers and other stakeholders. It is a tool used in FAO’s support to develop and implement national forest assessments in developing countries, and can be used for free as teaching material.
Advancing Sustainable Forest Management requires that informed decisions can be made at the national level and that progress towards chosen goals can be monitored. This, in turn, requires that effective national forest inventories and assessments are in place to serve national policy processes.

Contact: Altrell, Dan
Forest Resources Development Service (FORM)
Forest Products Division (FOP)
FAO
Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100
Rome, Italy
Dan.altrell@fao.org

Training and Extension Resources on Tree Seed.
Non-formal education

by Forest Resources Development Service (FORM) and FAO-Netherlands Partnership
Programme on Agro-biodiversity
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL)
Denmark, 2003
http://www.dfsc.dk/Extensionstudy/index.html

This website summarises training and extension resources related to forest reproductive material (i.e. seeds, cuttings etc). The aim is to facilitate access to extension resources concerning tree seed and related topics and make it easier for extension workers to produce new, appropriate resources without reinventing the wheel. The setting up of this forest reproductive material website was thought to addressed and make better use of existing teaching and extension resources in the long-term.
The study has focused on technical topics. It has not specifically examined general methodology of training and extension, nor people-skills such as facilitation, participatory methodologies, management and administrative topics. These are important and are often key to the success or failure of training and extension efforts, but they are common to all branches of forestry and agriculture, and are best reviewed at that level. The study has also tried to focus on intermediate and field level resources. Tree seed is increasingly being collected by and for farmers, and so extension material should be at a level suitable for farmers, concerned with identification of suitable trees for collections, basic principles of tree selection, harvesting and storage, and collection and distribution of quality seed by and to farmers. Also, in large scale national extension programmes, it is important to ensure that collection and distribution of quality seed is of the species that the farmers want.
The site has the following sections:

• RESOURCES, which provides an overview and commentary on the items. The opening page explains how these resources have been grouped into categories.
• GUIDELINES, which discusses the material, looks at the lessons learnt, and makes suggestions and gives ideas on how to produce new material.
• ANNEXES, which include a searchable and sortable master list, summary of electronic resources, further suggestions for resources, and useful contacts.
• RESOURCES by ID no. The top left hand branches of the site map contain the individual resources pages in numerical order.