Forest products and services
Partnerships and initiatives
GLOBAL WEBINAR SERIES: SUSTAINABLE FOREST-BASED BIOECONOMY APPROACHES
Join FAO throughout 2025 for a global webinar series on sustainable forest-based bioeconomy approaches.
From data, policies and supply chains to financing and partnerships – discover key themes and understand how to unlock the forest sector’s transformative potential for decreasing reliance on non-renewable resources in a sustainable bioeconomy and transition to climate-positive societies.
News
Global forest products facts and figures 2023 shows fall in global trade in wood and paper products
10/12/2024
Forests, trees and wild species key to healthy agrifood systems – FAO
31/10/2024
Africa’s forests can be a cornerstone of sustainable bioeconomy, FAO report
24/10/2024
Publications
Unasylva 253: Forests for a better world
2022
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of FAO’s Committee on Forestry, this edition of Unasylva showcases ways in which forests are delivering the "four betters" and underscores how forests are crucial for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems in a changing climate.
Forest sector contribution to national economies 2015
2022
This report presents the total economic contributions of the forest sector to national economies around the globe, based on estimations of the forest sector direct, indirect and induced effects on the economy derived from the national accounts input-output matrixes with the most recent data available (2015).
FAO Forestry Paper 189: Enabling micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in legal timber production and trade
2022
This report explains the challenges facing forest sector micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and outlines strategies to support them to supply legal timber and timber products to domestic and international markets.