Forestry

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Forests and the environment

Partnerships and initiatives

News

06/03/2026
As part of the celebrations for International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has unveiled a new model for strengthening women’s leadership and entrepreneurship in the world’s forest sectors.
02/03/2026
How the devil’s claw tuber improves health and wildlife conservation in Namibia
19/02/2026

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this week acknowledged an FAO-led global partnership to monitor progress towards ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM...

Publications

2026

The development of this guidance note was motivated by numerous calls to improve the availability of globally comparable and population-level data on food biodiversity, in particular, wild species and neglected and underutilized species.

2026

The UN-REDD Social Forestry Initiative (2022–2025), supported by Switzerland, strengthens ASEAN countries’ capacity to integrate social forestry into climate strategies and NDCs.

Empowering Rupununi women: conservation and community champions in Guyana

01/06/2024

Elearning Academy

E-learning
Enhancing policy coherence through public expenditure analysis for forests
08/12/2025

This e-learning course introduces the methodology for analysing public expenditure on forests to enhance policy coherence and foster synergies between...

Elearning: Delivering restoration outcomes for biodiversity and human well-being
E-learning
Delivering restoration outcomes for biodiversity and human well-being
25/11/2024

The course offers essential knowledge and practical guidance to help stakeholders – including Convention on Biological Diversity Parties – implement...

Planning seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration
Planning seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration
01/11/2024

This course explores how to plan seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration.