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Planted Forests of the Future - Sustainable management pathways to achieve ecosystem restoration
01/2019

Planted forests must help foster biodiversity, improve rural livelihoods, and support climate change mitigation if we are to achieve the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and of the United Nations (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

FAO's work with indigenous peoples in forestry
FAO’s work with Indigenous Peoples in forestry
01/2019

FAO’s Forestry Department works with indigenous peoples to address the unique challenges they face, while assisting governments to develop appropriate forestry policies that take indigenous peoples’ land and resource rights, and views into account.

Restoring forest landscapes through assisted natural regeneration (ANR)
Restoring forest landscapes through assisted natural regeneration (ANR) - A practical manual
01/2019

Native species that are adapted to the prevailing conditions re-establish on their own with some assistance, achieving accelerated growth in accordance with natural succession, leading to the recovery of native ecosystems. This manual describes procedures from almost 20 years of FAO experience with assisted natural regeneration (ANR) in the Philippines and more recently in Indonesia, Cambodia and Lao PDR.

FAO Forestry Paper 181 Climate change for forest policy-makers
FAO Forestry Paper 181: Climate change for forest policy-makers
06/2018

The critical role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation is now widely recognized. Forests contribute significantly to climate change mitigation through their carbon sink and carbon storage functions.

FAO Forestry Paper 180 Making forest concessions in the tropics work to achieve the 2030 Agenda Voluntary Guidelines
FAO Forestry Paper 180: Making forest concessions in the tropics work to achieve the 2030 Agenda
05/2018

The decision to develop a set of voluntary guidelines for forest concessions in the tropics, in the context of the 2030 Agenda, stems from the need to advance the implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM).