8th World Forest Week Special Event: Data and digital innovation for forestry
07/10/2022
Relevant, accurate, up-to-date and transparent information on forests contributes to better reporting, policy formulation and decision-making at different levels. This event will highlight open-source digital innovations from FAO including SEPAL and ARENA and feature several country applications. The new technology of blockchain also offers a range of applications in forestry.
FAO–GLF DIGITAL FORUM: Transforming agrifood systems with forests
29/09/2022
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement on climate change.
Monitoring the forests to restore ecosystems
04/05/2022
The vision of the Task Force on Monitoring is that a science-based restoration movement should be informed by the best available technology and data for planning and monitoring restoration actions on the ground. And, that the latest innovations should be broadly accessible to restoration stakeholders – this can help turn commitments into actions and can help scale investments in restoration.
Introduction to the Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) Platform
09/03/2022
The Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) platform has been developed for tracking progress of efforts to restore degraded ecosystems, in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
Se.plan – A Forest Restoration Suitability Decision Support Tool
09/03/2022
To advance restoration efforts, FAO, the Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), SilvaCarbon and researchers at Peking University and Duke University, have developed a SEPAL-based forest restoration planning tool (se.plan) to help identify and prioritize restoration locations.
United for nature: keeping a close eye on forests in Latin America and the Caribbean
09/12/2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research (INIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), the Forestry Institute of Chile (INFOR), and the European NFI Network (ENFIN), hosted this webinar.
National Forest Inventory of Peru
27/08/2015
Free forestry software in the battle against climate change
10/10/2014
Tropical deforestation and forest degradation are among the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans globally and thus major contributors to climate change, which is why reducing these emissions has become a key goal of the international community.