People and forests
News
FAO calls for climate finance for forest and farm smallholders
12/10/2021
Winner of GROW Summer School agrobiodiversity innovation contest announced
27/09/2021
Community-managed funds key to protecting Brazilian Amazon
24/09/2021
Publications
-manua.jpg?sfvrsn=2bc80ace_1 "Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Manua")
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities
2016
This FPIC Manual will enable field practitioners to incorporate FPIC into project and programmes’ design and implementation, ensuring that indigenous peoples’ rights are duly respected. FPIC can be considered the “gold standard” because it allows for the highest form of participation of local stakeholders in development projects.
FAO Forestry Paper 176: Forty years of community-based forestry
2015
Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably.
FAO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
2015
This publication has been formulated so as to ensure that FAO will make all due efforts to respect, include and promote indigenous issues in relevant work. In so doing, it joins the international community’s increasing mobilization in favour of the rights and concerns of indigenous peoples, most of whom suffer disproportionately from multiple adversities.