People and forests
News
How beekeeping can restore degraded land and improve livelihoods
20/05/2023
Today is World Bee Day. Find out how the Forest and Farm Facility and partners have been supporting Maasai communities in Tanzania to generate additional income from beekeeping - and regenerate local forests in the process.
New FAO project to safeguard forests and natural resources as part of humanitarian action
26/04/2023
Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new global project to integrate safeguarding forests and other natural resources in the way we respond to humanitarian crises.
Unlocking finance for African smallholder farmers
18/04/2023
Nairobi - A major meeting this week brought together farmers, bankers, governments and development partners from across Africa and beyond to discuss ways to ensure smallholder farmers, the backbone of the region’s food system, have access to the finance they need to improve and scale up sustainable forest and farm management practices.
Publications
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.
Connecting forest and farm producer organizations to climate change finance
2021
A toolkit for apex forest and farm producer organizations
Forest communities in the face of COVID-19 crisis
2021
This report assesses the impact of COVID-19 on forest communities and highlights the vital role of social organization in their response, recovery and in building back better after the pandemic.