Shillong, Meghalaya, Northeast India – In response to a local community’s increased concerns about water scarcity and spring contamination, FAO’s Forest and Water Programme collaborated with WeForest, the University of Twente and the Ka Synjuk Ki Hima Arliang Wah Umiam Mawphlang Welfare Society to hold a Forest-Water Capacity Building Workshop...

Saving lives and contributing to livelihoods are only some of the important contributions provided by mangrove ecosystems. These salt-tolerant evergreen ecosystems are highlighted in a new education module available online through FAO’s Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) toolbox. Although mangroves grow along coastlines, their influence often extends both inland, where they can...

Anyone who has walked outside on a sunny day knows that forests and trees matter for temperature, humidity and wind speed. Planting trees speaks to concerns about climate change — but the directly important aspects of the tree-climate relationships have so far been overlooked in climate policy where it relates...

During three highly interactive days, approximately 20 forest and water international experts convened at the SIWI office in Stockholm to discuss how to monitor interactions between forests and water, quality and quantity. By the end of the week, after intense brainstorming and discussion, the workshop succeeded in producing a preliminary...

From 27 to 29 September, the FAO Forest and Water Programme has organized, in collaboration with host SIWI Swedish Water House, a workshop where 20 participants from around the world meet as part of a process to develop a standardized monitoring framework and tool for forest-water relationships. The objective of the workshop...