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News

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Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme partner wins prestigious Whitley Award
15/05/2024
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.  
FAO and EU launch 15 million euro project to boost sustainability of Uganda’s forestry sector
FAO and EU launch 15 million euro project to boost sustainability of Uganda’s forestry sector
10/04/2024
FAO has launched a 15 million euro ($16.29 million) project funded by the European Union to help Uganda’s forestry sector contribute more sustainably to the economy and the environment.
High- and low-tech innovation together can help preserve global wildlife
High- and low-tech innovation together can help preserve global wildlife
04/03/2024
Nearly 1 billion people globally rely on wild food for their daily nutrition. In this op-ed, FAO's Hubert Boulet explains how low-tech games developed by the Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme can help communities manage wildlife sustainably.
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Publications

Enabling micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in legal timber production and trade
FAO Forestry Paper 189: Enabling micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in legal timber production and trade
2022

This report explains the challenges facing forest sector micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and outlines strategies to support them to supply legal timber and timber products to domestic and international markets.

Carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+ Tenure links and country-based legal solutions
Carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+: Tenure links and country-based legal solutions
2022

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 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Forest-based adaptation transformational adaptation through forests and trees
Forest-based adaptation: transformational adaptation through forests and trees
2022

This FAO technical paper unpacks the concept of forest-based adaptation and describes policy spheres that could bolster the role of forests and trees in providing adaptation and resilience benefits. It introduces a set of ten principles for using forests and trees to promote transformational adaptation, which were developed with leading experts from the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and other partners.

Videos

Taking stock of Panama's tropical forests
08/07/2014

Almost half of Panama is covered by rich forests. By sustainably managing these forests the opportunities for reducing emissions from deforestation...

FAO climate change in Tanzania (Long version)
02/04/2014

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in Tanzania, where climate change is taking a toll on local populations. FAO-backed initiatives...

European forestry innovation: charting a path towards a green economy
09/12/2013

This film highlights how Finland is setting an example in sustainable forest management and how the many and varied innovations emerging from Finland's...