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News
Celebrating coffee and its farmers
01/10/2026
On this first International Coffee Day, we celebrate the coffee crop that bolsters employment and rural livelihoods and the coffee farmers in Rwanda, Kenya and worldwide.
FAO Committee on Forestry: Director-General urges better integration of forests into food security and development policies
28/09/2026
The 28th Session of FAO’s Committee on Forestry opened on Monday with a call for stronger global action to address mounting threats to forests while fully recognizing their critical contribution to food security, livelihoods, climate resilience and sustainable agrifood systems.
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Preserving Indigenous wisdom requires protecting forests
06/08/2026
To truly celebrate Indigenous healers, we must recognize their living knowledge as firmly rooted in forests and safeguard those ecosystems, FAO’s Sophie Grouwels of the Forest and Farm Facility explains.

Publications

Forests for food: Nourishing people, sustaining the planet
2026

This report examines the multiple ways in which forests contribute to food security and nutrition, with a particular emphasis on forest foods because they are among the least visible and least well-documented components of food systems.

Twelve misconceptions about agrosilvopastoral systems – and how to overcome them
2026

This brochure examines 12 common misconceptions about agrosilvopastoral systems and explains how evidence, policy and practice can overcome them.

Scaling up land restoration to expand Africa’s Great Green Wall Action Against Desertification 2026, Policy brief, No. 1
2026

This policy brief highlights key lessons learned from restoration interventions, and provides actionable recommendations to scale up efforts across the Great Green Wall (GGW)

Rodrigo Pacheco's edible forest

FAO National Goodwill Ambassador for Ecuador and world-famous chef Rodrigo Pacheco takes us on a walk through his own edible forest on the coast of the Ecuadorian province of Manabi, where he sustainably grows ingredients for food served in his restaurants.

21/03/2025

Elearning Academy

E-learning
Legal frameworks for community-based wildlife management
08/10/2026

This course introduces the concept of community-based wildlife management (CBWM) and its implementation.

Farmer Field School programmes
Farmer Field School programmes
30/09/2024

Farmer Field School (FFS) is a participatory education approach that brings together a group of small-scale food producers to solve production problems...

An introduction to Urban and Peri-Urban Forestry
An introduction to urban and peri-urban forestry
23/05/2024

This course introduces the concepts of urban and peri-urban forestry, outlining the important ecosystem services provided by urban forests and the challenges...