Forests and the environment
Partnerships and initiatives
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New report charts how women, youth and Indigenous Peoples can claim greater agency inside producer organizations
15/10/2026
FAO report: Restoring forests and landscapes is critical to meeting global food security and development goals
28/09/2026
Forest and landscape restoration is a cost-effective response to food security, biodiversity, climate, and other development challenges, according to a new report by FAO.
FAO guidance aims to strengthen global wildfire resilience
25/09/2026
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Restoring forest landscapes through assisted natural regeneration (ANR) - A practical manual
2019
Native species that are adapted to the prevailing conditions re-establish on their own with some assistance, achieving accelerated growth in accordance with natural succession, leading to the recovery of native ecosystems. This manual describes procedures from almost 20 years of FAO experience with assisted natural regeneration (ANR) in the Philippines and more recently in Indonesia, Cambodia and Lao PDR.
FAO Forestry Paper 181: Climate change for forest policy-makers
2018
The critical role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation is now widely recognized. Forests contribute significantly to climate change mitigation through their carbon sink and carbon storage functions.
A review of existing approaches and methods to assess climate change vulnerability of forests and forest-dependent people
2018
This document provides an overview of vulnerability assessment methods and considers how they can be adapted to evaluate the vulnerability of forests and forest-dependent communities to climate and climate change.