People and forests
News
Social forestry creates lush landscapes in place of barren land in Indonesia
28/08/2023
Forest work must be made safer and healthier, says new FAO-ILO-UNECE report
04/07/2023
FAO initiative validates new advocacy strategy to boost women’s capacities to scale up gender-responsive policy making
25/05/2023
Publications
The State of the World's Forests 2022
2022
The 2022 edition explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable production and consumption.
Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme gender approach
2021
The Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme has developed a series of innovative social safeguards to encourage women and men’s active participation in community decisions. This brochure explains the programme’s gender approach in a simple and visual way, highlighting six key steps to follow to ensure gender equality and empowerment of women, with examples from Congo, Gabon, Guyana, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, and Zimbabwe.
Women’s participation in wood-based value chains in voluntary partnership agreement countries: a case study from La Xuyen wood village in Nam Dinh province, Viet Nam
2021
This report is part of a larger study that seeks to identify the knowledge gaps around gender in the forest sectors of Côte d’Ivoire, Viet Nam and Honduras by assessing the role of women in wood-based value chains and identifying possible interventions or recommendations to reduce gender disparities during VPA negotiations and implementation. This study presents a specific case study on the role of women in the wood supply chain of La Xuyen wood village, Viet Nam.