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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

Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources
Global plan of action for the conservation, sustainable use and development of forest genetic resources
2025

Building resilience in Botswana’s drylands
Building resilience in Botswana’s drylands
2025

Scaling up millet, lablab and live fencing for restored livelihoods and landscapes

Restoring resilience through non-timber forest products and drought-tolerant crops in Zimbabwe
2025

Sustainable millet production to combat drought and achieve land degradation neutrality

Elearning Academy

Monitoring forest landscape restoration
Monitoring forest and landscape restoration
01/04/2021

This course has been developed to equip practitioners with the capacity to design, plan and implement monitoring systems for forest landscape restoration.

Sustainable financing
Sustainable financing of forest and landscape restoration
01/03/2021

To meet countries’ national commitments to restoring degraded landscapes, adequate public and private investments are needed. This course has been developed...

Climate-smart forestry
Climate-smart forestry
01/06/2020

This course explores the role of forests and trees in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It takes into consideration the ecosystem services and goods...

Videos

Forests and sustainable cities
08/02/2021

More people live in cities than ever before and by 2050, 6 billion people or as much as 70% of the global population is expected to live in urban areas....

Action Against Desertification - Sudan
08/02/2021

Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to restore drylands and degraded lands in...

Forests for Nature: The State of the World’s Forests 2020
22/05/2020

Forests are the most biodiverse habitat on land. Yet scientists estimate that 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through land conversion...