Rome - A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) examines the strengths and limitations of existing approaches to monitoring agroforestry and highlights the Global Forest Resources Assessment Remote Sensing Survey (FRA RSS) as a promis...

Forests are living ecosystems that thrive on balance. When that balance is disrupted, forests suffer, losing their ability to provide the benefits on which people and economies depend.  

This is happening around the world before our eyes, and restoring these damaged forest...

Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said the Organization stands ready to support the forthcoming UN Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation, describing it as an opportunity to accelerate efforts to address forest and land degradation and restore productive landscapes.

FAO and the Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) have agreed to extend and strengthen their partnership on sustainable management of natural resources including forests for five more years. 

The 28th Session of FAO’s Committee on Forestry opened on Monday with a call for stronger global action to address mounting threats to forests while fully recognizing their critical contribution to food security, livelihoods, climate resilience and sustainable agrifood systems.

See how science and local knowledge are helping restore forests, strengthen agrifood systems and support communities.

Forest and landscape restoration is a cost-effective response to food security, biodiversity, climate, and other development challenges, according to a new report by FAO.

The 28th session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO 28) and 10th World Forest Week will bring forestry policymakers and experts from Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together in Rome from 28 September to 2 October to drive forward the global agenda on forests.

In response to the urgent need to address more frequent and extreme wildfires, FAO has today released new guidance to help countries strengthen the rules and processes they have in place for managing wildfires.  

A new FAO guide is calling for stronger national forest biosecurity systems to help countries protect forests from the growing threat of forest pests and invasive species, the spread of which is being accelerated by global trade, the movement of people and goods, and climate change.

Los bosques mejoran nuestro mundo de muchas maneras: refrescan las temperaturas locales, eliminan los gases de efecto invernadero del aire y proporcionan hábitats para animales, insectos y otras variedades de biodiversidad fundamentales para la salud de los ecosistemas. 

Forests and trees play a crucial role in providing nutritious food, and more than 5 billion people worldwide rely on them to some extent for their livelihoods. Yet their contribution to food security and nutrition remains largely overlooked in national statistics and policy frameworks.

El Mecanismo para Bosques y Fincas (FFF, por sus siglas en inglés) celebrará su Conferencia Global en la que por tres días reunirá a organizaciones de productores forestales y agrícolas (OPFAs), gobiernos, sector privado y cooperación internacional de 15 países para compartir resultados, aprendiz...

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A farmer growing coffee under shade trees needs those trees to remain healthy to maintain the right soil and microclimate that coffee depends on. If the trees or soil degrade, yields fall. For that farmer, protecting the land is essential to earning a living. That is why forest and farm producer ...

Rome – A new search is underway for communities or Indigenous Peoples in Central Asia and Latin America who are showing how restoring nature can create jobs, income and new opportunities for local people. Through a survey launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – The UN today awarded three new World Restoration Flagships in Brazil, the Sahel region, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The initiatives are strengthening landscape productivity by restoring degraded ecosystems in regions facing drought, desertification and climate c...

Registration is now open for the second session of a free online course developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners to support the sustainable management of wetlands and waterbirds in North Africa and the Sahel.

The forest sector employs approximately 42 million people worldwide. A new joint study by FAO, ILO and Germany’s Thünen Institute is sharing the first globally comparable, sex-disaggregated employment figures for the forestry sector.

To truly celebrate Indigenous healers, we must recognize their living knowledge as firmly rooted in forests and safeguard those ecosystems, FAO’s Sophie Grouwels of the Forest and Farm Facility explains.