Muong women in Dong Lai Commune,  northwestern Viet Nam, have joined forces to build a strong cooperative and secure a stable future for the ancestral craft of silk scarf weaving.  With colourful threads and skilled hands, the Muong women of Xom Com Traditional Silk Cooperative deftly make beautiful silk scarves. Each...

From small beginnings, farmers in Olenguruone within the Mau Forest ecosystem in Nakuru County, Kenya, have worked together over the years and have now formed an avocado cooperative, harnessing the power of working as a collective, protecting the forest and opening up export opportunities. “I am a strong believer in the...

Farmers in Liberia are diversifying their income and helping protect the forest by growing the grains of paradise spice – a valuable non-timber forest product.  Early in the morning, community members in Duoplay town, Gbehlay-Geh district, north eastern Liberia, carry hope on their heads. In their buckets, they transport several leafy...

Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) partners were highly engaged in this year’s COP30 climate conference, highlighting the vital role forest and farm producers and Indigenous Peoples play in climate action and supporting them as powerful agents of change on a global scale. World leaders, scientists, campaigners and forest and farm producers...

TERRA – a flagship initiative to accelerate global uptake of agroecology and agroforestry – is launched by the Brazilian government and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) at COP30 to strengthen biodiversity, enhance climate resilience, boost food security and...