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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025

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Restoration key to healthy Mediterranean forests

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Restoring the Mediterranean region – status and challenges

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Forests and people: 25 years of community forestry

01/2001

Almost 25 years have elapsed since the concept of community-based forest management emerged as a focus for addressing the linkages between forestry and rural people. Many countries are still at an early stage in the process of developing and introducing the concepts used in community forestry that may be appropriate to their situations. In others, community forestry has become central to the way forest resources are managed.