People and forests
News
To halt deforestation, we must empower smaller businesses in the legal timber trade
07/01/2022
Find out how FAO is working with small- and medium-sized businesses to promote the legal timber trade. More than 140 countries in November pledged to work collectively to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Producer groups key to empowering rural women in Nepal
24/12/2021
Women-led cooperatives pave a path to independence and benefit rural communities.
Unlocking climate funding for forest and farm producers
14/12/2021
A new toolkit published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today aims to help connect national forest and farm producer organizations to climate change finance globally.
Publications
Social protection for building the resilience of forest-dependent people: Evidence, linkages, practices and potential applications
2017
This study provides a rationale for building linkages between social protection and sustainable forestry in developing countries.
FAO Forestry Paper 179: National socioeconomic surveys in forestry
2016
Forests and trees contribute in multiple ways to reducing food insecurity, supporting sustainable livelihoods and alleviating poverty. As FAO’s State of the World’s Forests 2014 (SOFO 2014; FAO, 2014a) shows, for about one-third of the world population wood is the primary or only energy source, demonstrating the relevance of “wood security” in food security in many regions.
