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Ways forward for Myanmar National Forest Inventory
22/04/2019
Myanmar has a long tradition in Forest Inventory and is among first countries in the world that historically had established sample-based large area forest inventories. The first National scale forest...
Significant advances in designing and planning of a National Forest Inventory (NFI) in Myanmar
19/04/2019
A prime source of information about the state of the forests globally is the National-scale Forest Inventories (NFIs) at country level. In this context, FAO since its foundation in 1945,...
New publications to support sustainable forest management in Ethiopia
18/04/2019
The Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE), Ethiopia’s national strategy to achieve a middle-income status by 2025 has “Forestry: Protecting and re-establishing forests for their economic and ecosystem services, including as...
Sida, FAO and ECOWAS join forces to protect West Africa’s forests
09/04/2019
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have joined forces to...
Voices from the field: Sustainable Forest Management through Community Forestry in Colombia
04/04/2019
Local communities are key forest stakeholders, and their involvement in decision-making and sustainable management of forests generates positive outcomes for livelihoods, rural development, and forest conservation. In particular, countries in...
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Vietnam after nine years of REDD+ Readiness
19/03/2019
This article originally appeared on the UN-REDD Programme website. Click here to go to the original post.
Nine years since the launch of the UN-REDD Viet Nam Phase I Programme, Vietnam has marked a...
Mekong, Mumbai, and Beyond: Regionally-Developed Tool Expands to Support Global Forest Monitoring
18/03/2019
This article originally appeared on the UN-REDD Programme website. Click here to go to the original post.
“Land cover mapping in the lower Mekong has been challenging in the past, based primarily on...
Brazil presents preliminary results from the National Forest Inventory carried out in Caçador
15/03/2019
On March 14, the Director of Research and Information, Joberto Freitas, presented preliminary data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI) at an event held in the municipality of Caçador, Santa...
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Argentina submits its Forest Reference Emission Level and moves towards accomplishing REDD+ Readiness
06/03/2019
The Argentine Republic has a native forest cover of 53.6 million hectares (ha), distributed in seven regions that range from temperate forests to subtropical forests. The loss of coverage of...
In Moscow, FAO shared experience on climate-smart agriculture, management of peatlands
06/03/2019
For Russia, the issue of science-based restoration and sustainable, wet management of peatlands is particularly relevant. The urgency is determined by the fact that this type of wetlands perform a...