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The Sustainable Forest Management Toolbox is a comprehensive collection of tools, best practices and case studies to help forest owners and managers; policymakers; students and other stakeholders implement sustainable forest management.

 

News

FAO launches ‘4 WINS’ approach to advance women’s entrepreneurship in forest economies
06/03/2026
As part of the celebrations for International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has unveiled a new model for strengthening women’s leadership and entrepreneurship in the world’s forest sectors.
From savannah plant to global remedy
02/03/2026
How the devil’s claw tuber improves health and wildlife conservation in Namibia
Protecting forests is protecting Africa's agrifood systems
17/12/2025
When forests thrive, so do communities and agriculture, explains Ewald Rametsteiner, Deputy Director of FAO's Forestry Division.
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Publications

Novel approaches for engaging Indigenous Peoples and local communities on wildlife and food security
Novel approaches for engaging Indigenous Peoples and local communities on wildlife and food security
2025

Innovation case study to improve rural governance systems, so that communities are in a better position to sustainably manage their natural resources and improve their well-being.

Community-based monitoring in the context of sustainable wildlife management and biodiversity conservation in tropical countries
2025

This document features eight main key lessons that emerge from the implementation of community-based monitoring in the context of wildlife management and biodiversity conservation, across 15 countries in Africa, the Guyana Shield and the Pacific Region in which the Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme is implemented.

Sustainable forest management as means to enhance self-reliance and promote climate resilience in displacement settings
Sustainable forest management as means to enhance self-reliance and promote climate resilience in displacement settings
2024

The brief explores the interconnections between access to natural resources, energy needs, environmental degradation, climate vulnerability, and social cohesion, all within the context of safeguarding forcibly displaced populations and host communities while fostering resilience.

Videos

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...

FAO and the Mau Forest
14/06/2013

Kenya's Mau Forest stretches over the hills between the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria. Rain falls every day here for at least six months of the year,...