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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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Bamboo resources assessment
08/2025
Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing species, distributed widely across some of the most biodiverse and carbon-rich areas of the tropics and subtropics in Africa, Asia and South America. This study proposes a simple and practical approach to mapping bamboo on a large scale in Southeast Asia with the help of cloud-computing tools.
A global methodology for the assessment of direct drivers associated with deforestation and degradation
07/2025
This study uses satellite imagery, analysed with open-source tools from the Open Foris package (most notably the System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring [SEPAL]) to identify deforestation, degradation and associated direct drivers in six Central African countries.
Mountain Partnership Secretariat: Annual report 2024
07/2025
The Mountain Partnership is the United Nations alliance dedicated to mountain peoples and environments. This report features the initiatives and activities undertaken by Mountain Partnership, from regional dialogues and thematic conferences to community-driven restoration projects and cutting-edge scientific research.
Global wood fuel production estimates and implications
07/2025
FAO experts and partners have developed innovative methods for estimating wood fuel removals and charcoal production, which suggest that actual removals may be 30 percent higher than previously estimated in 2005.
Innovative practices in the sustainable management of fast-growing trees
06/2025
Fast-growing trees have been cultivated and used for millennia to provide wood and non-wood products to rural communities, as well as direct and non-direct benefits to urban societies. This publication addresses knowledge gaps and current and potential development of fast-growing trees at the global scale by highlighting successful, innovative practices that can help sustain people and the environment.
