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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

Building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems
Building climate-resilient dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems
2021

With climate change impacts already felt in the world’s drylands, there is an urgent need for action, at various scales and initiated by different stakeholders, to ensure the sustainability of food production and livelihoods in these regions in the coming decades. There is also the need to rapidly establish baselines, assess and start monitoring progress on sustainability, emerging as result of the action taken.

From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
2021

This report provides an update on REDD+ forest reference (emission) levels and REDD+ results submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and relevant developments under the Green Climate Fund concerning REDD+ results-based payments.

Addressing the human-wildlife conflict to improve people’s livelihoods
2021

This brochure provides a visually easy-to-retain overview of relevant information about human-wildlife conflict in order to engage and inform a large audience about the complex nature of this issue, and its causes, consequences, country examples, and good management principles.