Forest monitoring provides the information countries need to make informed policy and management decisions, as well as meet international climate commitments. For more than 50 years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

12-11-2021, Nairobi – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new project aimed to generate and use high-integrity data on forest emissions and removals compliant with results-based...

An ambitious new initiative announced today aims to reduce commodity-driven deforestation and restore forest landscapes, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World...

This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) publicly released a wealth of learning materials about forest monitoring under the Paris Agreement. By meeting the needs...

Screenshot from the final map app depicting the shelter suitabilty map layer overlaid with additional information    Last month, a hackathon was organized by the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Indigenous Alliance, took place as part of the Free and

On 17 November 2021, join the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the international, technical webinar, “Mind the gap: addressing National Forest Inventory capacity needs to support climate action.”   Date: 17...

Forests have significant climate change mitigation potential. Improving the transparency of forest-related data and information is needed now more than ever, particularly with respect to the enhanced transparency framework (ETF) under the Paris Agreemen

Kicking off on 2 November, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom, is an annual event that bolsters international cooperation on climate action. At COP, national...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a closing workshop that brought together the forest and agriculture experts, virtually from FAO headquarters in Italy, FAO Regional...

Forests play a key environmental role in Sudan, as they protect the Nile watershed, serve as windbreaks and halt desertification. On a grander scale, forests also influence climate, as well as the ability of...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched two practical instruments designed to encourage soil organic carbon maintenance and sequestration, a key tool for climate action.Carbon...

Thanks to financial support from UN-REDD, a new platform has been added to the Open Foris family. Launched on 7 July, Arena is an open-source technical solution enabling forest data...

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration was declared to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...

The world’s current method of food production isn’t working. Not for the estimated 500 million farming households in the developing world who produce one third of the world’s food, nor...

Bamboo is a ubiquitous sight across many parts of the tropics and subtropics – but until now, it has been difficult to assess exactly how much of it there is. The...

Within the framework of the UN-REDD Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is excited to host a webinar “Integrating Forest and Landscape Restoration into National...

Long gone are the days of paper-based field forms for data collection. No more muddy and torn pages with dubious handwriting; electronic data collection is now the norm in a broad range of field...

This week a group of international experts and practitioners met virtually during a global knowledge sharing webinar “Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action”. This event focused on...

Despite international commitments and agreements, deforestation and forest degradation continue to affect ecosystems around the world. This ongoing threat exacerbates climate change and negatively impacts countries, communities and individuals. The projec

Tasked with using geospatial technology to count trees in a remote region of northeast Nicaragua, Rene Zamora, a Forest Economist from the World Resources Institute (WRI), had three priorities. First, he...