The Central African country of the Republic of Congo enjoys substantial fisheries resources. Their inland water sources, lakes and rivers, are replete with numerous fish species. Until now, the relative abundance of fish and the low levels of fishing meant that the need to devise fisheries management plans was not considered...

Food security depends on water security, and water security depends on forests and trees. With approximately 75 percent of the world's accessible fresh water for domestic, agricultural, industrial and ecological needs sourced from forests, our global food-and-water secure future requires far greater understanding of forest-water-food dynamics and coherent sustainable action....

On 24 February 2016, FAO hosted an event at headquarters in Rome to address the findings of its recent publication “Mapping the vulnerability of mountain peoples to food insecurity”. The study revealed that 329 million mountain dwellers in developing countries are vulnerable to food insecurity – an alarming increase of...

Forest management decisions are important: afforestation is not necessarily an answer to addressing water questions; however, forest restoration and improving forest soils can be, according to forestry experts at "Forests and Water in Action", an event at Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW) in Clark, Philippines. “There are parallel and deeply entrenched...

The International Forests and Water Dialogue, a special two-day Congress event (8–9 September), showcased the importance of forest-water interactions. Organized by FAO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, World Agroforestry Centre, and the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, with the contributions of 21 other partners, the Dialogue aimed...