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 Forestry Paper 174 Towards effective national forest funds
01/2015

Towards effective national forest funds addresses the need for more information on the way NFFs work and how best to establish and manage them.