Forest products and services
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
The women replanting Argentina’s future
05/11/2025
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New methods developed for estimating wood fuel removals and wood charcoal production
23/07/2025
Congo joins International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees
16/07/2025
Publications
A guide to multiple-use forest management planning for small and medium forest enterprises
2025
This publication discusses the concept, evolution, and requirements of forest management planning, focusing on multiple-use forest management and small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs).
Climate and ecosystem service benefits of forests and trees for agriculture
2025
Forests and trees are powerful, often undervalued allies of agriculture. This publication—developed by FAO, SEI, The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International—synthesizes the latest science on how forests and trees regulate climate, water and ecosystem functions that directly underpin agricultural performance.
Agroforestry for wood production – Insights from multifunctional smallholder tree-farming systems in Asia and the Pacific
2025
The report highlights the growing importance of smallholder tree-farming systems in meeting the region’s rising wood demand amid declining natural forest production and plateauing industrial plantations.
Elearning Academy
Farmer Field School programmes
30/09/2024
Farmer Field School (FFS) is a participatory education approach that brings together a group of small-scale food producers to solve production problems...
Developing bankable business plans for sustainable forest-based enterprises
01/09/2023
This course has been developed to improve the capacity of small-scale producers and small and medium-sized enterprises to access investment and other...
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...
Communicating forestry innovation at FAO
From fibre to packaging, building materials & even waterproof sinks - innovation in forestry has been on show in Rome, at the From Seeds to Food exhibition, the World Food Forum and the FAO Museum and Network MuNe.
24/10/2025