Dr. Lara Steil is the Fire Management Officer in FAO's Forestry Division. Prior to her position at FAO, she coordinated efforts at Brazil’s National Center for Wildfire Prevention and Suppression to promote national and international collaboration related to integrated fire management. Working fo...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme have launched a Global Fire Management Hub that aims to strengthen countries’ capacities to implement integrated fire management.

FAO has launched a new mechanism that will enable countries better understand, manage and affront forest fires. The mechanism comes after a landmark UN report warned that extreme wildfires are set to become around 50 percent more frequent by the end of the century.

Firefighting is only one facet of fire management. Integrated approaches to fire management place greater emphasis on addressing underlying causes and seek long-term, sustainable solutions.

Interview with FAO’s forest fire expert Peter Moore, about the huge wildfire raging in Alberta, Canada in early May 2016.