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FAO launches updated guide to protecting forests from pests
05/11/2024
FAO today launched an updated guide to implementation of phytosanitary standards in forestry, including good practices for forest health protection to help reduce the human-facilitated spread of forest pests and their impacts.
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Enhancing efforts for productive and resilient dryland landscapes in Southern Africa
29/07/2024
Government officials, experts and landscape managers from across Southern Africa met today for a week of discussions on the challenges and solutions for drylands in the region organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and partners.
Planting a mangrove seedling, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania ©FAO-Luis Tato
New manual aims to improve accuracy of mangrove monitoring
26/07/2024
A new manual, produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and The Nature Conservancy, aims to help governments to gather far more accurate information on mangroves to better inform decisions on coastal land use and restoration. 
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Publications

Information brief: The wildlife–livelihoods–health nexus: Challenges and priorities in Asia and the Pacific
The wildlife–livelihoods–health nexus: Challenges and priorities in Asia and the Pacific
2024

This information brief on the wildlife-livelihoods-health nexus in Asia and the Pacific is intended to shed light on the current landscape of human–wildlife–health interactions, examine the challenges, and the existing and potential opportunities for change.

Comparative study of carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+
Comparative study of carbon rights in the context of jurisdictional REDD+
2024

As countries increasingly qualify for payments under the REDD+ process and schemes in return for reducing their emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a new report from FAO and UN-REDD highlights the need for legal clarity on who owns emission reductions and who is entitled to benefit from those payments.

Applying MEV-CAM tools: participatory video
Applying MEV-CAM tools: participatory video
2024

FAO has released its first practical guide to using participatory video, an innovative community-led technique that monitors change in development projects, with the aim of improving sustainability in dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems.

Videos

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...

Forests and biodiversity
21/03/2020

Forests are vital for biodiversity, providing a home to 80 percent of life on land. But with millions of hectares of forest lost every year, biodiversity...

Action Against Desertification - Burkina Faso
08/01/2020

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