Interviews
Pierrot Rakotoniaina
26/06/2024
Pierrot Rakotoniaina, national coordinator of the TEFIALA project, describes the objectives of the project for biodiversity conservation, restoration and integrated sustainable development of the Mangoky sub-watersheds (TEFIALA) in Madagascar, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment...
Ryan Vita
26/06/2024
Ryan Vita, FAO Representation in the Philippines, describes the three main approaches of restoration and community support at the focus of FLRM activities in Bataan and Carood Watersheds.
Tanou Diallo
26/06/2024
Tanou Diallo, FAO Representative, describes the obstacles of implementing restoration in the Republic of Guinea and the importance of capacity building within local communities. He explains how successful landscape restoration in Guinea begins with the support of local communities.
Tate Hanington
26/06/2024
Tate Hanington, National project coordinator of the GEF5 Project, explains the role FAO resources and its critical financial support in expected results of the restoration projects in Vanuatu by supporting communities implementing FLR activity.
Christophe Besacier
27/12/2023
Christophe Besacier, FAO Forestry Officer, Coordinator of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism, explains the importance of landscape restoration and the impact it has on biodiversity, the livelihood of communities and wildlife, and long-term sustainability.
Fred Stolle
27/11/2019
Fred Stolle, Deputy director of World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Forests Program, explains the importance of monitoring restoration and how the guide helps monitoring FLR by selecting appropriate indicators when designing a monitoring system.
Julien Noël Rakotoarisoa
27/11/2019
Julien Noël Rakotoarisoa, Project manager for Madagascar, explains how FAO supports the implementation of technical cooperations for Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) initiatives in Madagascar. He also foreshadows Madagascar’s future plans involving GEF-7.
Meyer Antonio
27/11/2019
Meyer Antonio, Government Focal Point for TRI, describes his expectations for The Restoration Initiative Week and highlights which topics meet his country's TRI project needs.
Paul Matiku
29/10/2019
Paul Matiku, Executive director of Nature Kenya, explains how the TRI capacity-building topics fulfill the needs of the project in Kenya and help strengthen the national team’s efforts.
Chadi Mohanna
29/10/2019
Chadi Mohanna, Director of Rural Development and Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture of Lebanon, highlights the work that FLRM has done with the Ministry of Agriculture in Lebanon. He calls attention to the Sixth Mediterranean Forest Week held in April 2019 in Brummana and describes Lebano...
Liu Jing
28/10/2019
Liu Jing, TRI Project manager for China, explains how the TRI capacity-building topics fit with the needs of the project in China and help strengthen the national team, she also describes the successes and remaining challenges.
Tim Christophersen
20/07/2018
Tim Christophersen, Coordinator, Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment, describes the challenges and opportunities of global forest and landscape restoration, and the role of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism.
Charles Victor Barber
18/07/2018
Charles Barber, Director, Forest Legality Initiative, World Resources Institute, describes some of FAO’s comparative advantages that position it as a key player in a crowded landscape of global action on forest and landscape restoration.
Faustine Zoveda
06/06/2018
Faustine Zoveda, Forestry officer at FAO, explains what is FLRM during the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration Meeting in Bonn held in December 2017.
Catalina Santamaria
24/07/2017
Catalina Santamaria, Program Manager, Forest Biodiversity, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), speaks about FAO and the global forest restoration movement, and the critical importance of FAO’s partnerships in this area.
Kathleen Buckingham
24/07/2017
Kathleen Buckingham, former Research Associate for the Global Restoration Initiative at the World Resources Institute, speaks about what makes FAO stand out in the global forest restoration movement, highlighting the critical importance of FAO’s partnerships in implementing restoration on the gro...
Peter Besseau
24/07/2017
Peter Besseau, Chair, Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) speaks about the importance of partnerships in forest and landscape restoration.