Jyoti Patil from India has won the GROW Summer School innovation contest focused on improving smallholders’ livelihoods through agrobiodiversity in fragile ecosystems.

Increasing the use of wood in building sustainable housing can help combat climate change and support the global transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy.

With the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration underway, review finds successes and many challenges ahead to restore Africa’s degraded lands and improve livelihoods.

Wild forest products such as cork, natural resins, mushrooms, medicinal plants, nuts and berries have huge potential to contribute to green growth in Europe and to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Increasing resilience of mountain peoples and protecting mountain environments are priority needs.

Fast-growing trees including poplars and willows have a major role to play in addressing today’s global challenges, including climate change mitigation and economic recovery from COVID-19 pandemic.

Scaling up assistance to forest and farm smallholders would provide benefits at a planetary scale in the face of climate change, according to a new FAO policy brief published today.

Acorns from oak trees hold potential to contribute to diversifying diets and better nutrition, according to a new FAO report published today.

La Commission des forêts et des parcours pour le Proche-Orient appelle à renforcer les efforts pour réduire la dégradation des forêts et la déforestation.

As leaders gather for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, it is vital that they recognize two important facts. The first is that we cannot reach climate goals without protecting and sustainably managing the carbon-absorbing forests that cover a third of the Earth’s land surface. The second is that we cannot protect forests without Indigenous Peoples.

Partnerships are key to advancing the restoration of the world’s degraded land, according to an annual report by The Restoration Initiative issued today.

Forestry in its various forms – protection, restoration, and enhanced sustainable use – can build natural assets, absorb vast quantities of GHGs, conserve biodiversity, protect water catchments, and supply the world with materials. It doesn’t hold all the answers, and it has its own challenges, but it will be a big part of the solution if we are to head off disaster.

A high-level dialogue led by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) will outline urgent actions needed to scale up efforts to halt deforestation and degradation at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

FAO is seeking to strengthen its contribution to the broad-based alliances for change that are critically needed to transform current unequal and unsustainable development pathways – by becoming a Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) charter member. 

At an event at COP26 in Glasgow, a new $345 million, seven-year program, The Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR), will launch projects in 27 countries, targeting the production and value chains of eight key commodities: beef, cocoa, coffee, maize, palm oil, rice, soy, and wheat. 

FAO has installed a prototype rooftop farm at its Rome headquarters to highlight how innovative technology can help increase access to healthy diets from sustainable agri-food systems.

Experts, policymakers, business leaders and national delegates will gather at Foresta2021 and European Forest Week , 22-25 November 2021, to discuss strategic solutions for the future of forests.

Boosting the capacity of forests and agrosilvopastoral systems in drylands to alleviate poverty and contribute to food security.

Between the first and the second decades of this century, the rate at which mangroves were lost fell by almost a quarter (23 percent) and these forests are regenerating faster than expected. But climate change is increasingly posing a threat to this ecosystem and the world needs more concrete eff...

Rome – L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) s’est félicitée des 25 millions d’euros de financement additionnel versés par l’Union européenne (UE) en vue d’élargir et de transposer à une plus grande échelle le