Collaborative Partnership on Forests

Grow the Solution.
Wood. Nature’s sustainable solution.

Grow the Solution is an awareness‑raising initiative under the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. It is led by FAO, with support from the Regional Forest Communicators Networks, which span six world regions and bring together more than 550 communication professionals. 

The emerging bioeconomy has sustainably managed forests at its heart. Sustainably produced wood and bamboo can be used as renewable replacements for carbon-intensive materials such as steel, concrete and plastics. With the world population projected to grow for some time, any increase in wood consumption would add to the imperative of ensuring sustainable forest management.

Grow the Solution offers a facts-based narrative about sustainable wood. When harvested as part of sustainable forest management, wood can be a solution to global challenges.

Posters

Wood you store carbon in your table?

In Kenya, mango trees become furniture, locking up carbon and unlocking income for farmers. By 2050, long-life wooden products could store one billion tonnes of CO₂ every year.

Wood you trust a tree to hold back the sea?

In the Netherlands, lock gates are made from responsibly sourced African azobé. 
In Gabon, that same tree sustains families. Globally, forests provide jobs for 42 million people.  Sustainably grown trees grow livelihoods.


       

Grow the Solution is the work of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests Communicators’ Network Joint Initiative, with the support of the Federal Republic of Austria and the Government of Canada.

Led by FAO, the project 'Strengthening global advocacy and awareness on the role of sustainable wood value chains and their contribution to SDG12 through the work of the Joint initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) Communicators’ Network' was funded by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Austria, with support from the Regional Forest Communicators Networks.

These messages are aligned with the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (Responsible consumption and production) and the objectives of the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration.