Forests and the environment
Partnerships and initiatives
News
Protecting forests is protecting Africa's agrifood systems
17/12/2025
Indigenous and local action brings back nature: UN recognizes three World Restoration Flagships
04/12/2025
COP30: Forests drive agricultural success, not conflict, report shows
19/11/2025
FAO-led report says protecting and restoring forests is crucial to boosting climate-resilient agriculture, rural livelihoods and global food and water security.
Publications
Global indicators for monitoring ecosystem restoration
2022
The publication is the result of a joint effort by FAO and the UN Environment. The overall objective of this work is to contribute to the implementation of the UN Decade as well as to the UN Secretary-General’s reporting to the United Nations General Assembly at its eighty-first session.
Valuing, restoring and managing “presumed drylands”: Cerrado, Miombo–Mopane woodlands and the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
2022
This study confirms the existence of 1,075 million hectares of presumed drylands that are under threat from unsustainable use and climate change.
Co-developing a community camera trapping programme to deliver benefits of living with wildlife
2022
The Rungwa-Ruaha landscape in Tanzania is one of the most important wildlife areas in Africa and it supports one of the world’s largest remaining populations of lions, African wild dogs, cheetahs, leopards and spotted hyaenas.