Publications
Communicating locally-led nature restoration: themes and insights
2025
Communications professionals across Africa and Asia recently came together for a training course on strategic communications for locally led nature restoration initiatives. The group explored what works and what doesn’t, when communicating in diverse, multilingual and remote contexts. This briefing paper pulls together the key themes and insights that emerged from the participants’ ongoing conversations, written exercises, case studies and oral contributions.
How strong internal governance is supporting a community forestry network in Tanzania
2024
This case study from Tanzania is the fourth of six case studies on tactics that improve internal governance prepared by forest and farm producer organisations for the Forest and Farm Facility.
Standards of practice to guide ecosystem restoration
2024
A contribution to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030
Delivering tree genetic resources in forest and landscape restoration
2023
A guide to ensuring local and global impact
Restoration Reckoning: Assessment of available options (geospatial / local measurement and modelling) and their strengths and weaknesses for measuring forest landscape restoration (FLR) by Forest and Farm Producer Organisations (FFPOs)
2022
This report is an assessment of available options (geospatial/local measurement and modelling) and their strengths and weaknesses for measuring forest landscape restoration by forest and farm producer organisations.
Forest and farm producer organizations building resilience: Strength in numbers and landscapes, Global findings from case studies
2021
Forest and farm producers’ livelihoods are threatened by a complex risk context, where environmental change is accelerating (climate change, degradation of natural resources) and chronic and episodic stressors and disturbances (poverty, pests, economic shocks) are occurring outside of the range of past experience.
Developing bankable business plans: A learning guide for forest producers and their organizations
2021
This guide was developed to improve the capacity of small producers, their organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises to access private investment and finance for sustainable forest-based businesses. It offers a framework to think through, organize and develop a convincing investment proposal.
Local financing mechanisms for forest and landscape restoration: A review of local-level investment mechanisms
2021
To meet global restoration needs and recover degraded forests and landscapes, adequate public and private investments are required to support restoration activities on the ground. The new FAO publication “Local financing mechanisms for forest and landscape restoration: A review of local level investment mechanisms” examines the pathways available to financing restoration for a positive local level impact.
Sustainable Financing for Forest and Landscape Restoration: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward
2015
FAO and the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD have joined efforts to prepare this discussion paper on sustainable financing for FLR. It provides an overview of existing funding sources and financial instruments that could be used and adapted specifically for the implementation of FLR efforts at the national, regional and global levels.