One of the most important contributions of forests to food security is the provision of wood fuel. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 60% of households use wood fuel to cook, boil water, and preserve food. But unsustainable wood fuel production and trade is depleting and degrading forests and trees. This session will ...

FAO together with the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) Secretariat, the Forest and Farm Facility, the FAO Regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO Strategic Objective 3 Reduce Rural Poverty and the FAO Office for South-South and Triangular Cooperation (OSS) launches a Series of Global Webinars “Towards ...

This webinar is the second webinar of the Series of Global Webinars “Towards Resilient Family Farming - Solutions from producer organizations impacts” organized by the Secretariat of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), the Forest and Farm Facility, FAO Strategic Objective 3 Reduce Rural Poverty, FAO Office for South-South and Triangular Cooperation ...

Watch the video of the event Kenya is a wood deficit country and farm forestry has been promoted for a long time to meet the growing timber demand and to comply with a constitutional target of 10% national tree cover. Currently, timber from farms accounts for about 40% of the national ...

Togo’s expanding populations need both food and means of generating income. After a recent visit, Duncan Macqueen reflects on how multi-tiered self-organisation is supporting sustainable solutions among tapioca producers.

Forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) are providing immediate emergency responses and offering grounded solutions for resilience in building back better secure landscape-based production systems The FFF is helping FFPOs in documenting best practices and facilitating the implementation of locally adapted measures.

Biodiversity – forest and farm producers are critical agents for a healthy planet. Today is 2020 International Day of the Forest and for that matter, the Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) acknowledges the central role of the forest in ensuring sustainable biodiversity for all forms of live on ...

This article analyses how locally-controlled forestry (LCF) enterprises contribute to a broad notion of prosperity as ‘that which people value and have reason to value in line with the common good’.

The Forest and Farm Facility participated in the resource partner consultation of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) held in FAO HQ on Friday 29 November 2019. In the context of the UN reform, where flexible and less earmarked funding is encouraged by the new Funding Compact, the FMM becomes a ...

With their ability to mobilise 1.5 billion smallholder producers, forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) can help drive a paradigm shift away from large-scale monocultural systems, which are vulnerable to climate change and highly inequitable. FFPO businesses embody greater diversity and equity, pursuing market opportunities for a diverse basket of ...