Forest management
Sustainable Forest Management Toolbox
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
COP30: FAO’s AIM4Forests secures long-term financial support from the United Kingdom
15/11/2025
FAO welcomes COP30 leaders’ call to action on wildfire resilience
07/11/2025
The women replanting Argentina’s future
05/11/2025
Publications
The State of the World’s Forests 2024: Forest-sector innovations towards a more sustainable future
2024
This edition provides highlights on the state of the world’s forests and explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers.
Integrated fire management voluntary guidelines
2024
Damaging wildfires in many parts of the world in recent years have prompted an increase in demand for technical support for integrated fire management. This publication outlines how to implement integrated fire management at the landscape level, enhance best fire-management practices, including cultural practices for sustainable land use, and engage diverse stakeholders.
Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations
2024
The development of digital public infrastructure to support compliance on aspects of trade regulations related to forest monitoring helps smallholders by enabling their access to regulated markets.
Videos
Reclaiming the forests of Costa Rica
06/08/2016
After decades of clear-cutting forests for cattle pastures and commodity crops, Costa Rica’s forest cover has now increased to 54 percent, thanks to...
State of the World’s Forests 2016: Forests and agriculture - land use challenges and opportunities (longer version)
18/07/2016
Agriculture remains the most significant driver of global deforestation. Large-scale commercial agriculture and subsistence agriculture currently account...
State of the World’s Forests 2016: Forests and agriculture - land use challenges and opportunities
18/07/2016
Agriculture remains the most significant driver of global deforestation. However, it is possible under certain conditions to achieve sustainable agriculture...