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Exploring our forests - an interactive story
04 May 2022
04 May 2022

FAO's latest interactive story "Exploring our forests" allows readers to take a look at the world's forests from two different vantage points. The canopy path highlights the findings of the FRA remote sensing survey and the waterside trail explores the recomendations and lessons from the "Guide to forest-water management"

The session “Forest-Water Connections to Achieve the SDGs” under sub-theme 6 of the XV World Forestry Congress illustrates the many and complex forest-water interlinkages that exist. Understanding their synergies and tradeoffs is central to achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through this WFC session, the organizers CIFOR/ICRAF, SIWI Swedish Water...
New FAO Forestry Working Paper: The protective functions of forests in a changing climate - European experience
21 October 2021
21 October 2021

The protective functions of forests in a changing climate - European experience was prepared on the occasion of the 33rd Session of the European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds on 13-15 October 2021.
The publication compiles the national reports from twelve member countries presented during the...
Indigenous communities show pathway to managing the forest-water nexus
22 September 2021
22 September 2021

Indigenous knowledge plays an important role in raising awareness of the forest-water nexus. This was one of many important take-aways from a World Water Week session, presented in this blog post written by SIWI’s Lotta Samuelson and Sandra Gordon from CIFOR on behalf of the Forest Water Champions. Photo shows...
Management of world’s forests must be water-centred
25 August 2021
25 August 2021

Forests and trees play a vital role in meeting the world's increasing demand for water and need to be managed for water-related ecosystem services, according to a new guide co-published by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), the Joint Research Centre...