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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
Flagship publication
The State of the World's Forests
International forestry journal
Restoring the Mediterranean region – status and challenges
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FAO Forestry Paper 189: Enabling micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in legal timber production and trade
11/2022
This report explains the challenges facing forest sector micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and outlines strategies to support them to supply legal timber and timber products to domestic and international markets.
Contribution of the forest sector to total employment in national economies
11/2022
Forests and the forest sector are important sources of employment, livelihoods and incomes for millions across the globe, particularly in rural areas. Despite the relevance of forests for employment and income generation, limited quantitative information is currently available. This study employs a new method to provide sound total employment estimates in the forest sector on a global scale.
The key role of forest and landscape restoration in climate action
11/2022
This publication highlights the links between forest and landscape restoration and climate change mitigation and adaptation issues, and considers further opportunities to enable greater integration between the two agendas.
The Restoration Initiative: 2021 Year in Review
11/2022
2021 marks the completion of The Restoration Initiative’s (TRI) third full year of implementation. Despite challenges lingering from the COVID-19 global pandemic, 2021 was a year of encouraging progress. As stay-at-home work requirements and other restrictions were lifted, project participants were able to return to the field, using the analyses, policy recommendations and landscape restoration and management plans developed in 2020 to accelerate restoration actions.
Peatlands and climate planning. Part 1: Peatlands and climate commitments
11/2022
Peatland conservation and restoration secure ecosystem services that support adaptive capacity and resilience. This brief is part of the Global Peatlands Initiative’s work to support national governments in enhancing their climate commitments, such as the nationally determined contributions and the long-term strategies through the inclusion of climate action on peatlands.
