What is a sustainable and circular bioeconomy and how can the forestry sector contribute? Sven Walter, senior forestry officer at FAO, talks about the huge opportunities and challenges ahead for the forestry sector.

Rome – Wood residues – the materials left over when trees are logged and processed – hold the potential to support resource-efficient energy access, revitalize rural economies and help mitigate climate change, according to a new report.

The Green Climate Fund, one of the world’s largest providers of forest finance, has joined the Collaborative Partnership on Forests in a move that will enhance global efforts to end deforestation and ensure the sustainable management of forests and trees.

Building partnership and enhancing collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, local communities and business is key for meeting targets on reversing biodiversity loss, Tiina Vähänen and Kristina Rodina de Carvalho explain in an op-ed for World Wildlife Day.

Rome - FAO today launched a new e-learning course that will inspire practitioners to champion transformational dryland forest management strategies.

Le copayer est vu comme un arbre miraculeux car il est l’un des arbres médicinaux les plus utilisés dans la région de la Chiquitania, en Bolivie, et en Amazonie en général. Les huiles médicinales, l’un des nombreux trésors des forêts, présentent un intérêt non seulement médical mais aussi financi...

As we mark the International Day of Forests today, it is worth remembering that there are many reasons to appreciate forests – and that even if we never set foot in them, forests keep us all healthy.

Rome – Forest degradation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but it is difficult to measure and countries need technical support to report these emissions, according to a new FAO technical paper released today.

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - More clarity on who ‘owns’ emissions reductions is still needed to access different sources of forest carbon finance and protect the rights of vulnerable groups, according to a new information brief released today...

Rome – Le tourisme en montagne, s’il est géré dans le respect du développement durable, peut permettre d’augmenter les revenus des populations locales et contribuer à préserver leurs ressources naturelles et leur culture. Toutefois, les populations manquent de données et de ...

Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new global project to integrate safeguarding forests and other natural resources in the way we respond to humanitarian crises.

Rome/Londres – Pour célébrer la Journée de la Terre, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) et le Royaume-Uni ont auj...

The way that we monitor the world’s forests has changed dramatically in recent years. Today, more than 35,000 people in 180 countries use FAO's Open Foris - an open-source initiative to collect, analyze, and report critical forest and land data. 

From hoovering kitchens and driving cars to reading and writing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are increasingly being used to save human's time. But can this kind of technological innovation help us save the planet?

Nairobi - A major meeting this week brought together farmers, bankers, governments and development partners from across Africa and beyond to discuss ways to ensure smallholder farmers, the backbone of the region’s food system, have access to the finance they need to improve and scale up sustainable forest and farm management practices.

Rome – Un événement mondial qui a rassemblé aujourd’hui des ministres, des spécialistes et des représentants de mouvements de jeunes pour célébrer la Journée internationale des forêts 2023 a été l’occasion de braquer les projecteurs sur la contribution vitale des forêts à la santé de l’environnement et des populations.  

New York – More integrated approaches between forests, energy and livelihoods can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, according to a joint brief published today by the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat, FAO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations and the United Nations Development Programme.