FAO supports Asia-Pacific countries to improve the consistency and quality of data reported to Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA), while also enhancing their ability to monitor primary forests over time.

New research presents fresh estimates that help close critical data gaps in global and regional forest-sector employment between 2011 and 2022.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is launching the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 Test on the FAO eLearning Academy.

FAO is ushering in a new era of forest data timeliness, transparency and accessibility with major upgrades to its Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA).

Synergies in forest assessments can streamline reporting processes by enhancing data quality, reducing national reporting burden and strengthening evidence-based climate action.

FAO and Norway signed an agreement for a partnership aimed at accelerating the collection, analysis and dissemination of forest data worldwide

In many parts of the world, efforts to manage forests are gaining ground, as the latest Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) – published every five years by FAO – shows. Read the article by Zhimin Wu, Forestry Director, FAO.

Released every five years, the 2025 edition of the report was published today during the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Plenary in Bali, Indonesia.

Forest Kids game update empowers children to become restoration champions. The update supports the objectives of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030).

CFRQ partners gather and share information on more than 60 percent of the variables for FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA).

FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2025 results will be officially launched at the Global Forest Observations Initiative Plenary 2025 in Bali, Indonesia, on 21 October. Register to participate in person or online here.

The National Forest Inventories Network for Latin American and the Caribbean (IFN-LAC Network) gathered in Antigua, Guatemala contributing to comparability and transparency of methodologies and data across regions.

Around 20 countries from the region were meeting in Guatemala to enhance their forest monitoring systems, advance methodological harmonisation, and promote open data.

The secretariat of FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) recently established a global taskforce to define forest degradation 

FAO has trained European experts in advanced remote sensing methodologies that will help generate consistent, comparable and high-quality data on the region’s forests.

Twenty-seven Australian experts were trained by FAO in the latest methodologies for remote sensing using an open-source software for satellite image interpretation.

FAO Remote Sensing Survey training will strengthen regional data for the Remote Sensing Survey (RSS) of FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment.

FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) provides essential information for understanding the extent of forest resources, their condition, management and uses. 

FAO and GEF team up in new project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available.

Release of FAO FRA 2020 on July 2020.