Policy, governance and economics
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New report charts how women, youth and Indigenous Peoples can claim greater agency inside producer organizations
15/10/2026
World Forest Week: Producer organizations offer cost-effective route to resilience
02/10/2026
FAO and Bauhaus Earth report highlights wood’s role in cutting construction emissions
25/06/2026
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Social protection and COVID-19 response in rural areas
2020
This brief explains how social protection measures could shield the rural poor from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic while providing a series of social protection measures countries adopted around the world as a response to COVID-19.
Strengthening national forest policy in Timor-Leste
2020
The first ever National Forest Policy was formulated with technical assistance from FAO, and enacted in 2007. In order to promote sustainable forest management for the benefit of local people, the Government of Timor-Leste requested that FAO assist in reviewing the NFP, and in formulating the Forest Law as a legal instrument for NFP implementation.
Expanding social protection in rural areas, focusing on fisheries and forestry
2019
This special issue of Policy in Focus opens with an article on universal social protection in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), exploring the expansion of social protection and related challenges over the last decades.