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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

FAO-EU FLEGT Programme Results, impacts and lessons learned from designing and implementing timber legality verification systems
FAO-EU FLEGT Programme: Results, impacts and lessons learned from designing and implementing timber legality verification systems
2022

The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme was established in 2016 to support the implementation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. The Programme sought to tackle illegal logging, promote trade in legal timber products, and ultimately contribute to sustainable forest management and poverty reduction. This publication presents achievements, lessons learned and recommendations for future programming.

An assessment of uptake of the Global Core Set of Forest-related Indicators
An assessment of uptake of the Global Core Set of Forest-related Indicators
2022

The twenty-fifth session of the Committee on Forestry (CPF) requested FAO to analyse - in collaboration with members of the CPF - the uptake of the Global Core Set of forest related Indicators (GCS) by other reporting processes and the extent to which they decrease reporting burden on countries.

Global forest sector outlook 2050 Assessing future demand and sources of timber for a sustainable economy
Global forest sector outlook 2050: Assessing future demand and sources of timber for a sustainable economy
2022

Jointly produced by FAO, the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the consultancy Unique land use GmbH, the report combines the results of a long-term outlook for the forest sector to 2050 with an assessment of wood demand in a sustainable economic environment