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Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) can ensure the continual provision of ecosystem goods and services by providing wide-ranging benefits at a local and global scale. Significant investment and financial and non-financial incentives are required to support producers and...

The pressure on land and natural resources is greater than at any other time in human history. In Kenya, rapidly increasing populations and rising levels of consumption, and the lack of alternatives for livelihoods are placing ever-larger demands...

The Restoration Initiative (TRI) project in Pakistan focuses on restoration, protection and sustainable management of the Chilgoza pine forests ecosystem to provide global environmental benefits as well as enhanced resilience and livelihoods to local stakeholders.

The Chilgoza forests are...

New guide can help breathe life back into degraded forests and landscapes through better measurement and tracking of restoration efforts

Forest and land degradation affects 3.2 billion people around the world, reducing crop yields, threatening water supply and making communities...

During The Restoration Initiative (TRI) Capacity-Building week at FAO headquarters, gathering all national TRI project teams and Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) project teams, participants had a chance to visit the Model Forest of the Aterno Valley. The objective...