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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

FAO Forestry Paper 170 Sustainable management of Pinus radiata plantations
FAO Forestry Paper 170: Sustainable management of Pinus radiata plantations
2012

This book is about how to grow Pinus radiata (radiata pine) forest plantations. Radiata pine is a versatile, fast-growing, medium-density softwood, very suitable for a wide range of end-uses.

Soil carbon monitoring using surveys and modelling
FAO Forestry Paper 168: Soil carbon monitoring using surveys and modelling
2012

This publication describes the application of survey- and modelling-based methods for monitoring soil organic carbon stock and its changes on a national scale.

FAO Forestry Paper 167: Wildlife in a changing climate
FAO Forestry Paper 167: Wildlife in a changing climate
2011

For the past twenty years climate change has been high on the international agenda. Together with desertification, soil degradation and biodiversity loss, it is widely recognized as the major environmental threat the world is facing.