Publications

Planted forests - Uses, impacts and sustainability

12/2009

The significance of planted forests and recognition of their contributions to a range of development goals are anticipated to increase in coming decades. Planted forests provide not only wood, fibre and fuel, but also other non-wood forest products. Moreover, they sequester carbon, rehabilitate degraded lands, help in restoring landscapes, protect watersheds and agricultural soils, and provide recreational areas and amenities.

FAO Forestry Paper 157: Human-wildlife conflict in Africa

04/2009

FAO Forestry Paper 156: Global review of forest pests and diseases

02/2009

Enhancing stakeholder participation in national forest programmes - Tools for practitioners

01/2009

FAO and the National Forest Programme Facility have developed a capacity building module on Enhancing stakeholder participation in nfps, to enable countries to gain the knowledge and skills for practical application of this important principle in their local contexts.

Enhancing stakeholder participation in National Forest Programmes - Forest policy brief

01/2009

There is a growing recognition of the wide range of goods and services that forests provide at all levels of society – to the millions of people living in or around forests who depend on them for their survival and livelihoods, to national governments and to the global community.