Forestry

Publications

New releases
Social protection
12/2019

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.

FAO Forestry Paper 184: Trees, forests and land use in drylands: the first global assessment
12/2019

Drylands cover 41 percent of the Earth's land surface. This publication presents the results of the first global assessment of trees, forests and land use in these lands.

12/2019

The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood-based panels have surged to their highest level since the Food and Agriculture Organization began recording forest statistics in 1947.

FAO Forestry Paper 183 FAO framework methodology for climate change vulnerability assessments of forests and forest dependent people
11/2019

This publication provides practitioners with step-by-step guidance for conducting vulnerability assessments using the most appropriate tools. The guide will be useful for anyone conducting vulnerability assessments involving trees or forests, including forest owners, managers and administrators in the private and public sectors and in community forestry organizations, and land-use planners.

Deploying a humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach: Exploring, strengthening and reviving dryland ecosystems
09/2019

The working paper unpacks how combined climate shocks, environmental degradation, and conflict exacerbates people’s vulnerability and reflects how responses should adapt to tackle these compounding challenges and bolster resilience.