Forestry

Publications

New releases
Unasylva 245
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.

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.

FAO Forestry Paper 175 Global guidelines for the restoration of degraded forests and landscapes in drylands
01/2015

Drylands cover nearly half of the earth’s land surface and are home to one-third of the global population. They face extraordinary challenges, including those posed by desertification, biodiversity loss, poverty, food insecurity and climate change.

FAO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
01/2015

This publication has been formulated so as to ensure that FAO will make all due efforts to respect, include and promote indigenous issues in relevant work. In so doing, it joins the international community’s increasing mobilization in favour of the rights and concerns of indigenous peoples, most of whom suffer disproportionately from multiple adversities.