Vision

The Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) is in line with the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s Strategic Objectives (SOs), in particular those focusing on "Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable" (SO2) and "Increasing the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises" (SO5). Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) efforts (both at country and global levels) have to take into account a number of key issues or factors to be addressed:

• enabling environment for FLR (policies/laws);
• institutional setting;
• governance issues (tenure, local community involvement, etc.);
• improved livelihoods and food security and nutrition;
• assessment of degradation and restoration opportunities;
• technologies and approaches;
• analysis and evaluation of costs and benefits;
• capacity development, extension and dissemination;
• resource mobilization;
• private sector investment; and
• research needs.

Objective

The Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) has been established to support fulfilling the needs of both people and the environment in a sustainable manner. The expected outcome of the FLRM is improved resilience, productivity and socioeconomic value from restored forests and landscapes benefiting human well-being, local livelihoods and the environment. It aims to seek a balance between restoring ecosystem services (e.g. biodiversity, soil and water conservation) and productive functions of land for agriculture and related uses that provide food, energy and other products and services for sustainable livelihoods.

The FLRM aims to support countries in the planning and implementation for forest and landscape restoration as a contribution to achieving the Bonn Challenge – the restoration of 350 million ha of deforested and degraded lands by 2030 – and the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Biodiversity Targets related to ecosystem conservation and restoration.