Reducing deforestation and forest degradation, restoring forests, and sustainably managing forests are all critical pathways to meeting the 2030 global goals. Since 1990, more than 420 million hectares of forest have disappeared. Although deforestation rates have slowed, 10 million hectares of forest are still lost every year. World leaders have committed to halting deforestation and restoring more than 1 billion hectares of degraded land. However, progress has been hindered due to the lack of information at various levels.
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Leading the way to more effective forest monitoring
To address such challenges, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have launched AIM4Forests, a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well as the use of space data and remote sensing.
The new programme is all about leveraging technical innovation to create data and information to inform the right courses of action to reduce deforestation and restore forests. AIM4Forests will leverage everything that technology and innovation offers such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In addition, it will also make sure that the capacity is transferred to countries, including IPs and local communities who manage the forests – only that way can we see real change.
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AIM4Forests Impact Report 2023/24
Click here to discover last year's AIM4Forests journey (April 2023 - April 2024).
How innovation is driving change in forestry: Opening session
21/03/2024
A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations event to celebrate the International Day of Forests 2024. Find out about some of the outstanding innovations that are helping to protect forests and unlock the many benefits they bring.
Harnessing innovation: Papua New Guinea's role in AIM4Forests' programme
21/03/2024
Since 1990, over 420 million hectares of forest have disappeared. To combat this, AIM4Forests, a programme by the FAO and the UK, aims to halt deforestation and restore degraded land by 2030 using advanced technology.
Main publications
Technological innovation driving transparent forest monitoring and reporting for climate action
21/03/2024
This paper reviews how countries are benefiting from technical innovations in their monitoring and reporting of forest-related emissions and removals...
Good practices in sample-based area estimation
14/02/2024
This paper seeks to enable donors, academia, and countries that currently use or want to use sample-based area estimation (SBAE) for generating activity...
National Forest Inventories of Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards the harmonization of forest information
20/07/2021
This publication represents a milestone in the beginning of the harmonization process towards data transparency within the forestry sector in Latin...
Estimating emissions and removals from forest degradation: An overview of country experience
02/05/2023
This booklet provides an overview of the methodological options available to countries to address these challenges while collecting the emerging experience...
Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests
04/05/2023
AIM4Forests is a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well...
Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests
04/05/2023
AIM4Forests is a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well as the use of space data and remote sensing.
E-learnings
Sharing the experience on “Forest and land monitoring for climate action – SEPAL” facilitated course
17/06/2024
The overall objective of this course is to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite imagery to critical...
E-learning series: National forest inventory
02/01/2024
The national forest inventory (NFI) e-learning series consisting of eight courses provides an overview of the key phases of an NFI, from planning to...
Data management in a national forest inventory
01/10/2023
This course provides an overview of information gathering and data management for national forest inventories (NFI).
Introduction to sampling
01/10/2023
This course covers the general aspects of sampling in forest inventories and aims to introduce the basic concepts and characteristics of a sampling...
National forest inventory results: Reporting and dissemination
01/10/2023
This course covers national forest inventory (NFI) reporting in detail and establishes the importance of reporting in the context of REDD+ actions.
Our activities
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AIM4Forests: One year of impact
22/04/2024
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