The World Agroforestry Centre together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the partners of the ASEAN-Swiss Partnership for Social Forestry and Climate Change project — prepared a set of guiding principles in support of agroforestry development in ASEAN Member States. The guidelines are deemed...

For forests, one of the first ‘post-Rio’ moves was to promote the development and use of criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management. This was made easier by the fact that the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) had published the first set of C&I for the sustainable management of...

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a web application to help set up systems for monitoring restoration projects. This app, called AURORA (Assessment, Understanding and Reporting Of Restoration Actions) aims to help stakeholders develop a monitoring system tailored to their...

AWF-Wiki is a platform for sharing information, knowledge and expertise in the context of forest inventory and remote sensing. It was initiated by the Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany to extend academic offers to students and interested scientists. During a pilot phase it...

Forest landscapes are inhabited by approximately 1.5 billion people. The aggregate gross annual value of these smallholder producers approaches US$1.3 trillion. Adding value to that production, through financial investment, will be key to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Therefore, access to finance is an important issue. The Forest and...

This report discusses forestry accidents and illnesses, makes international comparisons, examines the use of accident reporting forms, and provides sample forms. It presents examples of successful safety and health improvements arising from accident reporting and analysis and discusses various legal and regulatory approaches for improving worker safety and health.

Resource-based industries like agriculture, fishing, mining and forestry suffer higher incidences of work-related accidents and illnesses than other occupational sectors. This document provides guidance for a wide spectrum of forestry stakeholders. The guidance emphasizes forestry accident investigation leading to accident reporting and subsequent analysis of the accident summaries. Forestry accident...

Accreditation Services International (ASI) is one of the world’s leading accreditation bodies for sustainability standards systems. Their business is to assure trust in certification. ASI assesses organizations that issue certificates for a range of standards, ensuring that audits are conducted with competence and global consistency. As the sole accreditation body for...

Issues regarding land use, land-use change and forestry have being receiving increased attention in the multilateral negotiation process on climate change. Remarkable progress has been made in discussions of definitions and methodologies and in capacity building for the inclusion of forestry activities in the mitigation of climate change. While most...

This manual was developed to assist project managers in understanding how climate change may affect their project outcomes and in identifying adaptation options to integrate into the design of resilient projects.