Organized by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, this international conference will bring together a wide range of stakeholders from 20-22 February 2018 to discuss the challenges of halting and reversing deforestation and to jointly explore ways to accelerate progress towards achieving in particular the SDG Target 15.2 and Target 1.1 of the UNSPF. [more]

Ugandan forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi was awarded the 2015 Wangari Maathai ‘Forest Champions' Award in recognition of her efforts to promote the conservation and sustainable use of her country's forest resources.Given in recognition of outstanding efforts to improve and sustain forests, the award was established in 2012 by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, which is chaired by FAO. Its name honours the memory of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. [more]

This year, we celebrate 15 years of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests’ (CPF) achievements as governments discuss the future International Arrangement on Forests (IAF), negotiate the future sustainable development goals and address climate change challenges. As these global policy ambitions take shape, countries’ and CPF’s commitment to supporting actions towards implementation of sustainable forest management has never been stronger. This publication presents highlights of the CPF’s achievements during the 2013-2014 biennium. The examples provide evidence of how the partnership contributes to the UN’s “Delivering as One” agenda, while at the same time engaging non-UN international partners. The partnership remains committed to its work on maintaining and sustaining the world’s forests. [more]

5 June 2017 The Forest Policy and Resources Division leads FAO's work in promoting sustainable forest management and providing leadership on the environmental, social and economic dimensions of forestry, including its contributions to poverty reduction and food security and nutrition. It liaises with member countries, civil society and the private sector in aspects ranging from development of effective forest policies to forest conservation and management issues, and strengthens the role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Division also collects, analyses and disseminates information on the world's forest resources and on the production, trade and consumption of wood and non-wood forest products. [more]

14 April 2017 The Forestry Officer reports to the REDD+ Coordinator, under the overall guidance of the Director, FOA. The incumbent will work closely with experts from REDD+ and National Forest Monitoring teams and other FO forestry experts in Headquarters and other regions, mostly with the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC), the sub-regional office for Mesoamerica (SLM) and FAO's subregional Office for the Caribbean (SLC). [more]

1 December 2016 The Forestry Officer reports to the Team Leader, Forest Resources Management Team, under the overall guidance of the Chief (Policy and Resources). [more]

14 December 2018 The world must scale up the response to climate change, particularly in agricultural sectors, FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo told delegates at a high-level side-event of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, today. [more]

11 December 2018 An image from a spring equinox festival on a mountain in Iran has won the annual International Mountain Day photography competition organized by FAO to heighten awareness of the importance of mountains worldwide. [more]

6 December 2018 FAO and its partners called for urgent action to find alternatives to unsustainable hunting of migratory birds in Africa’s Sahel region, saying it was essential to conserve the area’s waterbirds and wetlands and improve long-term food security. [more]

3 December 2018 Feeding a hungry world demands greater collaboration across sectors and among stakeholders in order to restore millions of hectares of farmland, rangeland and forests so they can become more productive and resilient. That was a key message delivered by FAO Forestry leaders during the weekend’s Global Landscapes Forum. [more]

29 November 2018 This 20-page publication has been produced to illustrate to decision-makers the many ways in which poplar and willow trees improve the lives of people living in urban and peri-urban areas and neighbouring agricultural lands in China, the world’s most populated and fastest urbanizing country. [more]

26 November 2018 Experts working to eliminate illegal logging in the Republic of the Congo and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic gathered in Ghana to learn from that country’s own experiences in promoting trade of legally-produced timber to the European Union. [more]

21 November 2018 Resolving conflicts between commercial harvesters of wild animals and those who hunt as a source of food and livelihoods for families and communities is essential to halting unsustainable hunting practices that threaten species, participants said during a global Wildlife Forum on Wednesday. [more]

26 October 2018 Successful communications requires carefully developed messaging that ‘speaks’ directly to important target audiences and addresses any misconceptions about forest management, specialists in forest-related outreach explained during a training workshop for the Latin America and the Caribbean Forest Communicators Network. [more]

22 October 2018 FAO’s annual survey of world pulp and paper capacities presents statistics on capacity and production by country and by grade. It is based on information submitted by correspondents worldwide, most of them representing pulp and paper associations or, in their absence, paper companies. [more]

28 September 2018 Successful communication requires carefully developed messaging that ‘speaks’ clearly and directly to the most important target audiences, specialists in forest-related outreach explained during a training workshop for the Asia-Pacific Forest Communicators Network. [more]