This publication is the proceedings of the “Urban and Peri-Urban Forestry and Greening in West and Central Asia Workshop”, which took place as part of FAO’s Forestry Outlook Study for West and Central Asia process. The proceedings document the discussions and results of the workshop and provide material that will...

This FAO working paper provides experiences on, constraints to and prospects for urban and peri-urban forestry and greening in western and central Asia. It provides recommendations based on analyses of urban processes; planning and management of the urban green resource; policy, legal, and institutional frameworks; financial mechanisms; and future scenarios....

This document provides a range of urban forestry laboratory exercises for elementary, middle and high school students. Questions posed include: What is a tree? How big is a tree? How old is this tree? Suggested activities are provided at four levels: elementary school; middle school; high school; and all levels. An...

This detailed urban forest management plan includes historical background, current state, future plans, and public involvement analysis, as well as implementation procedure – the key step for turning policy into the practice. The management plan uses a quantitative approach (e.g. cost–benefit analysis) to present the benefits of and issues concerning...

American Forests defines urban forests as “ecosystems composed of trees and other vegetation that provide cities and municipalities with environmental, economic and social benefits. They include street and yard trees, vegetation within parks and along public rights of way, water systems, fish and wildlife.” Unlike traditional infrastructure, such as pipelines,...

This study examines the relative benefits (provisioning) and importance (regulating and cultural) of forest ecosystem services to households in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh. Our results from 300 household interviews in three rural locations stratified by wealth shows that wealth levels of the respondents play a key...

This study is one in a series of case studies being undertaken by the FAO Forest Harvesting and Transport Branch as part of its efforts to promote environmentally sound and sustainable forest practices in both natural and plantation forests. The main objective of these case studies is to document successful...

The webpage illustrates the use of treated wastewater to fertigate the Green belt of Marrakesh, Morocco. The project gives its support to the design and development of a ferti-irrigation system that will use partially treated wastewater for the irrigation of a 10-hectare section of the would-be Green Belt of Marrakesh...

FAO, in collaboration with Djibouti’s Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Fishery, Livestock and Marine Resources and Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and Environment, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, conducted the study presented in this report to assess the use of Prosopis woody biomass as a source of energy...

REDD+ has the potential to contribute to achieving more policy goals than climate mitigation alone. In Tanzania, REDD+ is expected to deliver multiple benefits, whose nature and extent will depend on the location and type of REDD+ activity implemented. These benefits include sustainable use of forest resources, biodiversity conservation, poverty...