The 27th session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO 27) and 9th World Forest Week will bring forestry policymakers and experts from over 90 countries together in Rome from 22-26 July to drive forward the global agenda on forests.

A new publication from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations sets out how coffee produced through agroforestry can improve resilience and ensure livelihoods in the face of climate change. 

On Desertification and Drought Day, FAO's Tiina Vähänen and Moctar Sacande explain in this op ed the importance of putting land stewardship at the centre of sustainable development to ensure a healthy, food secure world for younger generations.

FAO Director-General and the Rector of La Sapienza University of Rome strengthen their partnership and unveil an innovative and sustainable hydroponic garden.

Marking World Bee Day 2024, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization QU Dongyu today urged young people to learn more about bees and pollinators, including traditional and high-tech beekeeping, and thus help to safeguard the vital role these small creatures play in agriculture, ecological balance, and biodiversity preservation.

Guyanese conservationist and co-founder of the South Rupununi Conservation Society Leroy Ignacio has won a prestigious Whitley Award for his outstanding grassroots conservation work in Guyana’s Rupununi region.  

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today addressed the 19th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF19).

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) Communicators Network Joint Initiative today launched a new initiative to encourage greater use of products made from sustainably grown wood as a key strategy for combating climate change.

The world’s countries, and many international organizations and forest stakeholders, will meet next week to inject new ideas and further urgency into the quest to scale up forest-based solutions to global challenges.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests will play a key role contributing to the deliberations of the upcoming 19th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests.  

Research shows that some two billion hectares of world’s deforested and degraded landscapes offer potential for restoration. Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration runs from 2021 – 2030. Comp...

Forest products, from paper to pellets and from sawnwood to cross-laminated timber, offer solutions to contribute to climate change, through carbon storage as well as substitution of less climate-friendly products.

On 4 November 2020, FAO’s Advisory Committee on Sustainable Fo...

The Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based Industries (ACSFI) has endorsed the ACSFI Strategic Framework 2020-2030 at the occasion of a web-based meeting, on 23 September 2020. The Strategic Framework will guide ACSFI’s work until 2030 by identifying and stimulating strategic action...

For building back better after the Covid19 pandemic, wood-based solutions offer a green construction material. It is renewable, recyclable, can be sustainably sourced and has low fossil carbon and environmental footprints.

On 15 July 2020, FAO’s Advisory Committee on Sustainab...

FAO hosted the COVID-19 Forestry Webinar Week. As part of this series, and to complement the webinar that the Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all parts of our lives across the world including food trade, food supply chains and markets as well as people’s lives, livelihoods and nutrition.

Forest products have supported livelihoods throughout the pandemic delivering essential items, ...

Senior executives from the forest industry have set priorities to enhance the forest sector’s contribution to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals at the 61st session of the Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based Industries.

ACSFI, a FAO statutory body, bri...

 On 27 and 28 April 2021, the FAO’s Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based Industries (ACSFI; ‘the Committee’) met for its 62nd Annual Meeting.

The Session started with the inspiring opening remarks of the Director of FAO’s Forestry Division, Ms ...

 “The world is facing an environmental crisis and forests, and the products that they provide, are one of the most important tools available to address the climate and biodiversity crisis,” said the Director of FAO’s Forestry Division, Mette Løyche Wilkie, in her ...

Belem, Brazil 19 October 2021 – “Forest-based industries make an essential contribution to net zero emission targets, to which many businesses have committed in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change,” said the FAO’s Advisory Committee on Sustainable Fores...