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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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Advancing the role of natural regeneration in large-scale forest and landscape restoration in the Asia-Pacific region
01/2018
Case studies and experiences with natural regeneration from the region have shown that natural regeneration significantly reduces the cost of restoration in areas that meet certain conditions. 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
Social protection for forest-dependent communities
12/2017
This policy brief, developed with the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, is based on a global literature review of social protection for forest-dependent communities and three country case studies in Burkina Faso, China and Uganda.
Links between social protection and forestry policies: Lessons from China
06/2017
This review analyses the main forestry and social protection policies in China’s major forestry programmes.
International Online Conference on the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation Options in the Forest Sector
05/2017
This publication contains key messages from the International Conference on the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation Options in the Forest Sector, organized by FAO and held online in February 2015. It summarizes key points from 51 technical presentations and panel and plenary discussions of 6 thematic sessions: afforestation and reforestation, reduced deforestation and degradation, changing forest management practices, wood energy, green building and sustainable packaging.
Unasylva 249: Sustainable wildlife management
03/2017
Examples are presented in this edition to show that sustainable wildlife management is also feasible in the modern era. In some cases, a sustainable offtake – by local people, trophy hunters and legitimate wildlife traders – is proving vital to obtain local buy-in to wildlife management and to pay the costs of maintaining habitats.
