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Publications
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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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities
01/2016
This FPIC Manual will enable field practitioners to incorporate FPIC into project and programmes’ design and implementation, ensuring that indigenous peoples’ rights are duly respected. FPIC can be considered the “gold standard” because it allows for the highest form of participation of local stakeholders in development projects.
FAO Forestry Paper 177: Forestry for a low-carbon future
01/2016
This report brings together contributions from more than 100 experts on the different mitigation options offered by forests and wood products and on the enabling conditions for realizing their potential.
Unasylva 245: Forest and landscape restoration
12/2015
Bringing together case studies from different continents and biomes, the issue maps out progress made in forest landscape restoration and the challenges that lie ahead, covering approaches that range from “close-to-nature” planted forests in China to Africa’s Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative.
FAO Forestry Paper 176: Forty years of community-based forestry
11/2015
Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably.
Unasylva 243/244: Forests, trees and disasters
03/2015
This double issue of Unasylva aims to tease out the complex interrelationship between forests, trees and disasters, and to examine the ways in which forests and trees can best be managed both to resist shocks and to protect from shocks.
