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
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
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.
Exemplary forest management revisited
2025
This study revisits 25 forest management cases originally highlighted in FAO’s “In Search of Excellence” initiative to assess their long-term sustainability and derive lessons for future forest governance.
What are countries doing for their forest biodiversity?
2025
Countries are focusing on improving sustainable forest management as the most effective strategy for protecting biodiversity in the face of multiple threats, according to a study published by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.
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...