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How can public and private finance work together to accelerate forest restoration and biodiversity conservation? At #WorldForestryWeek and #COFO28, the European Forest Institute (EFI) and the Government of Italy brought together experts to explore financing solutions, market-based incentives a...

Monitoring global agroforestry extent: An analysis of methodological approaches and data sources – part A reviews the principal methods currently used to estimate areas under agroforestry across global, regional and national scales, while exploring how the FRA RSS can strengthen the collection of internationally comparable data.  

COFO brings together 128 Members and meets every two years, convening ministers, heads of forest services, senior government officials and partner organizations. Its sessions identify emerging challenges, promote innovative approaches and provide strategic direction for FAO’s forestry programme. COFO reports to the  FAO Council on programme and budget matters and to the FAO Conference on policy and regulatory issues.

Joint study by FAO, ILO and Thünen Institute of Forestry includes first global sex-disaggregated employment estimates for the forest sector

Forests employ approximately 42 million people worldwide, with women accounting for one quarter of the workforce, according to new research from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Thünen Institute of Forestry.

Highlighted in a new FAO paper, “When women transform forestry: The 4WINS approach towards equitable entrepreneurship and leadership across the forest sector”, the Wider access, Innovation, Natural resources conservation and Sustainable Practices (4 WINS) approach provides a strategic framework to advance gender equality while driving social, economic and environmental gains across forest value chains.

The UN recognized three new World Restoration Flagships in Australia, Canada and South Africa, anchored in Indigenous Peoples and local knowledge. Announced ahead of the 7th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), the new initiatives support agrifood systems, biodiversity and climate goals.

For the Xukuru Indigenous Peoples, caring for the Ororubá land is their sacred duty, blending cosmogony, biocentrism, ecosystems reading and Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge with state-of-the-art technology.

The Government of Brazil, with technical support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) and partners, today launched TERRA – a global platform designed to scale resilient and restorative agroecology and agroforestry.

In the quiet forests of Nepal's Nawalpur District, a revolution is taking root with the most unlikely tools -- cutters and compost heaps. A group of women in Binayi Triveni are turning what was once one of the region's greatest threats into a promising economic opportunity.