This guide contains a set of technical illustrations that provide practical, user-friendly information for planning a variety of agroforestry practices. It is particularly concerned with field-level interventions for sloping land management, an issue of concern in DPR Korea. This guide is written for forest rangers, county forest board members and agroforestry extension workers....

Insect pests and diseases routinely affect the health of trees, and major outbreaks can give catastrophic environmental and economic impacts. The effective management of all tree health problems depends on their early detection. This guide will help readers recognize symptoms of ill health in trees and understand their general significance....

This webinar begins with the reasons for why policymakers should concern themselves with forest governance. It will describe the FAO-PROFOR 3-pillar framework on forest governance. It will discuss how the framework can be used as an assessment tool--for measurement, diagnosis and monitoring forest sector governance challenges. It will then focus...

This manual aims, at upgrading the skills of forestry field personnel in the operation of tree nurseries, the planting of trees and shrubs, the prevention and control of wind erosion, and the execution of other types of activities related to tree planting in agricultural lands. Basic understanding of constraints and...

This is a guide to diagnosing strengths and weaknesses in forest governance using a tool developed by PROFOR (Program on Forests). The tool consists of a set of indicators and a protocol for scoring the indicators. The indicators are in the form of multiple-choice questions about aspects of forest governance....

Leslie Brandt, climate change specialist, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, USDA Forest Service explains how to assess vulnerability of trees as key aspect in the climate change response framework at the 2014 Urban Tree Conference.

Identifying and assessing the condition of forests is not easy – particularly since people have widely different views of what constitutes degradation. For some, any forest management activity may cause degradation. For others forest is only degraded when it can no longer deliver needed goods and services. There is no...

The remedy to poor governance starts with understanding where governance is weak. If we can measure forest governance, we can diagnose problems, advance reforms, and monitor their impacts. Forest governance comprises all the social and economic systems that affect how people interact with forests, including bureaucracies, laws, policies, traditional norms...

The main objective of this paper is to provide information and tools for policy makers and development partners engaged in developing arrangements for transferring REDD+ benefits. This paper is also intended to help key stakeholders design a mechanism that is appropriate for a country’s context by taking into account these...

The Forest Tenure Module provides insights into issues related to forest-tenure systems and governance. It is intended for people involved in forest-tenure reforms or who are charged with implementing or facilitating SFM in forests under varying or contested tenure arrangements. It provides tools for analysing tenure systems, identifying stakeholder perspectives...