Forest products and services

Sustainable Wood for a Sustainable World

Micro, small and medium-scale forest enterprises

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.

International Commission on Poplars and Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and Environment

Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based Industries

EU Forest Governance and Value Chains Programme

Forest and Farm Facility

News

Global forest products facts and figures 2023 shows fall in global trade in wood and paper products

10/12/2024

FAO statistical overview records significant 12 percent drop from record levels in 2021-2022

Forests, trees and wild species in agrifood systems

Forests, trees and wild species key to healthy agrifood systems – FAO

31/10/2024

Forests and wild-harvested forest foods are crucial to achieving global interconnected biodiversity, climate and nutrition goals but are often overlooked in agrifood systems policies and programmes, according to a new brief by FAO and partners.

Building a sustainable bioeconomy in Africa through forest products – trends, opportunities and challenges

Africa’s forests can be a cornerstone of sustainable bioeconomy, FAO report

24/10/2024

Africa’s forests hold huge potential to contribute to a sustainable bioeconomy and help combat climate change if the region can overcome unique challenges, according to a new joint report by FAO and Dalberg.

Publications

Timber traceability – A management tool for governments. Case studies from Latin America

2022

This report aims to document lessons and best practices in the planning of government-led timber traceability systems in Latin America to provide a reference for other countries that are tasked with developing and implementing similar systems. It also seeks to help other audiences recognize that traceability is global trend and is becoming a new norm for conducting business and trade in international wood markets.

Forest Restoration Improvement for Environmental Development and Sustainability in Central Asia (FRIENDS)

2022

FRIENDS project aims to develop national capacities to successfully conduct large-scale forest and other wooded lands restoration, by enhancing know-how to prevent degradation.

FAO Forestry Paper 186: FRA Remote Sensing Survey

2022

The FRA 2020 Remote Sensing Survey is a global collaborative study of the land use dynamic between the years 2000, 2010 and 2018, focused on forest and forest changes.

Videos

International Day of Forests 2024: New solutions for a better world

21/03/2024

Innovation is unlocking the forests’ long-kept secrets and allowing us to use trees in ways we never imagined possible.

Sustainable wood: The manifesto

06/12/2022

Over the centuries, we’ve moved away from using wood as a building material, at great cost to the planet.

Sustainable wood: Climate-friendly cities

01/12/2022

Find more videos on the FAO Forestry YouTube playlist

Sustainable wood: Housing a growing population

27/10/2022

A growing population means more buildings to fit everyone. By 2030, we will have to house an additional 3 billion people. Using wood from sustainably...

Sustainable Wood: Building the future

13/10/2022

Wood can be a material of the future, helping to build a bio-economy for the planet's health and economic recovery. Durable “cross-laminated timber”...

Forests and sustainable production and consumption

21/04/2022

For millions of people across the world, wood helps provide safe drinking water, food and shelter - but wood can do much more and is a renewable resource...

Is your toothbrush made of plastic or wood?

21/03/2022

Replacing more of the plastic things we use every day with wood-based products from sustainably managed forests can help combat climate change and achieve...

Sustainable forests: a powerful ally against climate change

24/02/2021

Climate change is subjecting our planet to unsustainable pressures. Forests and trees trap and store carbon as they grow – standing at the frontline...

Clean energy from sustainable wood

24/02/2021

The Sustainable Development Goals need forests

06/07/2018

Forests are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and are a vital part of our global ecosystem. They not only contribute to...