The latest snapshot of the world’s forests shows that we are still struggling to meet a fundamental challenge—to make use of our forests while keeping them healthy for the benefit of us all.

La FAO publica las principales conclusiones de la Evaluación de los recursos forestales mundiales 2020.

Forest and farmer producer organizations are stepping up emergency responses to help millions of rural small-scale producers during the COVID-19 crisis as it disrupts lives and livelihoods worldwide.

Es necesario tomar medidas urgentes para salvaguardar la biodiversidad de los bosques del mundo en medio de unas tasas alarmantes de deforestación y degradación forestal, advierte la última edición de El estado de los bosques del mundo<...

The State of the World’s Forests reports on recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues in the forest sector. The high-level virtual launch event organized jointly by FAO and UNEP was held on 22 May 2020 to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity.

Women in rural area have seen the benefits of participating in forest and farm producer organizations, such as improving their ability to start businesses and sell their products, getting specialized training and accessing social and cultural services. 

Nature is sending us a message that we must change our behaviour for a more sustainable future, FAO Forestry Assistant Director-General Hiroto Mitsugi said today at the launch of a new green artwork for World Environment Day. 

Los bosques y los árboles son fundamentales para promover la polinización por parte de las abejas, mariposas y otros animales, y existe la necesidad urgente de detener la degradación de sus hábitats y salvaguardar la biodiversidad, según un nuevo informe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas ...

Unobtrusive and often unobserved, the insects, birds, and mammals that help to keep plant populations diverse and abundant are easily overlooked as they go about their tasks. Yet their contribution to food production in terms of quantity, quality, and diversity is incalculable, through the act of...

African forest experts are using satellite imagery to assess the forest resources of the continent through a virtual training held this week as part of the 2020 Remote Sensing Survey of the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA). 

Los Gobiernos de Myanmar y Finlandia presentaron hoy un proyecto pionero diseñado para permitir la vigilancia de los bosques de manera que se tengan en cuenta los conflictos locales y se protejan los derechos humanos.

People are consuming more than ever. Our choices are having an unprecedented impact on the environment. The jeans, skirts or suits we wear, the pharmaceuticals and cosmetics we use, the food and drink we consume – all of these products have an impact, to varying degrees, on the environment.

Heads of forestry and government representatives from around the world are among participants examining how forests can play a vital role in economic and social recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic as a four-day webinar series kicks off today.

Aside from claiming high numbers of victims, what do Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS), Ebola and COVID-19 have in common? The answer is that all three are zoonoses, the term given to an infectious disease caused by a pathogen that has jumped from animals to humans. 

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the globe, forests and forest communities are feeling the pressure.

Lalita Rokaya’s family could barely make ends meet and education was a luxury it could not afford. Now, thanks to UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Mountain Partnership Products (MPP) initiative, Lalita is continuing her education and her family have enough to eat and can afford health care.

Un nuevo acuerdo promueve el comercio justo de productos orgánicos singulares y conserva la biodiversidad.

FAO, the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) today launched a comprehensive survey on forest education across the world.
 

The COVID-19 health crisis risks becoming a forest crisis. Measures to contain the impact of the virus have led to restrictions on movement and huge economic pressures.