Unlocking Finance for Restoration Enterprises in Kenya
07/07/2025
On 29–30 May 2025, over 60 stakeholders gathered at the E4Impact Entrepreneurship Centre in Nairobi to address a pressing challenge: how can we finance the entrepreneurs restoring Kenya’s landscapes? Co-hosted by FAO and E4Impact under the AFR100 initiative, the two-day event focused on bridgi...
Post-fire restoration at the Global Fire Management Hub’s first plenary: How communities are rebuilding nature
07/07/2025
At the Global Fire Management Hub plenary on 10–12 June 2025, a global panel brought together voices from Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Madagascar, Portugal and beyond to convey a crucial message: recovery is possible. While wildfires devastate not only forests and other ecosystems but also infra...
A scoping mission of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism Team Leader to Kazakhstan
07/07/2025
As the FAO Forestry Division is currently engaging in resource mobilization discussions with the Korea Forest Service to enhance restoration efforts in Central Asia, the leader of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) team, Mr. Christophe Besacier, visited Kazakhstan with a sco...
Strengthening global partnerships for forest and landscape restoration: highlights from the International Model Forest Network Global Forum 2025
07/07/2025
Kemptville, Ontario – From 26 to 30 May, the International Model Forest Network (IMFN) Global Forum 2025, the sixth of its kind, convened nearly 200 participants from over 60 Model Forests worldwide at the Kemptville Campus Education and Community Centre in Canada.
Forestry Division on a scoping mission to Somalia
16/04/2025
In 2024, the Government of Somalia joined the Committee on Forestry of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), highlighting the importance the country is now placing on rebuilding its forestry programme, which has suffered from a lack of attention in recent year...
The AFR100 Programme accelerates landscape restoration in Africa
16/04/2025
The AFR100 Programme Capacity-Development and Knowledge-Sharing Workshop, convened on 10–14 February 2025, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, marked a significant milestone in advancing Africa’s ambitious restoration commitmen...
FAO on an official visit to Côte d'Ivoire to discuss ongoing and future collaboration on forests and restoration
16/04/2025
Following the visit of the Minister of Water and Forests of Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Tchagba, to the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the Twenty-Seventh Session of the Committee on Forestry in July 2024, during which he discussed tec...
Integrated fire management in the Near East and the Mediterranean: strengthening collaboration for a resilient future
16/04/2025
Held from 12 to 15 February 2025, the regional workshop “Integrated Fire Management: Good Practices and Knowledge Sharing in the Near East and Mediterranean” was held in Rabat, Morocco. The event was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regio...
Empowering green entrepreneurs in the Great Green Wall: Insights from the FAO–UNEP mission to Burkina Faso
16/04/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nat...
RESULT Asia-Pacific Investment Forum highlighting resource mobilization strategies
16/04/2025
Bangkok, Thailand – The inaugural Restoring and Sustaining Landscapes Together (RESULT) Asia-Pacific Investment Forum, held on 11–12 December 2024, brought together regional and global stakeholders to strengthen investments in forest and landscape restoration (FLR) across the Asia and the...
CBD COP 16: How Africa Can Become Greener Faster
10/01/2025
In the race to tackle climate change and ensure both people and the planet can thrive, Africa faces some of the greatest challenges. At the heart of these challenges is the battle to ensure that land remains fertile enough to produce food for a growing population.
In recent decades, inte...
Afforestation and reforestation at the forefront of the international agenda to restore landscapes, mitigate climate change and improve local livelihoods, in Africa and beyond
10/01/2025
The first International Conference on Afforestation and Reforestation (ICAR1) took place in Brazzaville, Congo, from 2 to 5 July 2024, as a fol...
Building a community of practice to catalyse restoration efforts in the Central American Dry Corridor
10/01/2025
As part of the efforts to support the implementation of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (the “UN Decade”), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Uni...
Official launch workshop of the project “Integrated management of degraded landscapes for sustainable food systems and livelihoods in Forested Guinea and Upper Guinea”
10/01/2025
On 24 and 25 July 2024, the official launch workshop of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded project “Integrated management of degraded landscapes for sustainable food systems and livelihoods in Forested Guinea and Upper Guinea” was held in Conakry, Guinea. The official launch ceremony...
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Official closure of the project “Improved management and restoration of agrosilvipastoral resources in the pilot province of South Kivu”
10/01/2025
On 21 August 2024, the official closing workshop of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded project entitled “Improved management and restoration of agrosilvipastoral resources in the pilot province of South Kivu” was held in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The closing cer...
Cross-border mangrove restoration: a collaborative effort
10/01/2025
The Restoration Initiative (TRI) programme has been praised for bringing together diverse landscapes and institutions to scale up restoration efforts across nine countries. This unique set-up has provided an opportunity for country teams to learn on the ground, share knowledge and experiences,...
FAO and the Republic of Korea celebrate 75 years of partnership
10/01/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Republic of Korea celebrated 75 years of working together since the country joined FAO in 1949. The event, hosted by the FAO Partnership and Liaison Office in the Republic of Korea, looked back on the partnership’s achie...
Members of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration get together at COP16 to discuss the latest questions on advancing Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
10/01/2025
The session “Forest and Landscape Restoration: Strategically Advancing Target 2 Implementation with Monitoring and Resource Mobilization Across the Rio Conventions,” organized by the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) at the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of th...
Fostering eco-entrepreneurship in the Niger and Burkina Faso: building green futures under the Great Green Wall initiative
10/01/2025
The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative is a transformative African-led programme aimed at restoring degraded landscapes across the Sahel and Sahara. Initially conceived as a “wall of trees” stretching from Dakar to Djibouti, it has evolved into a mosaic of integrated development activities addr...
Paris Agreement in Action: Knowledge Seminar on projects in the Philippines
05/05/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Forest Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-FMB) and with funding from the International Climate Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment,...