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]

Forestry Officer (Forest Management) At the closing plenary of the Global Landscapes Forum, a statement from the Chair of the CPF, Eduardo Rojas-Briales, affirms that members of the CPF, collectively and individually, are working at policy level and on the ground in integrated landscape management for climate change adaptation and mitigation, for the achievement of the sustainable development goals and to progress toward a green economy. The statement highlights the many joint relevant initiatives of the Partnership. [more]

14 April 2017 The Forestry Officer reports to the FAO Representative in the DRC and to the Forestry Officer (REDD+ Regional Adviser for Africa) based in FAO headquarters. [more]

8 March 2017 The Forest Officer will provide technical expertise to support the planning, financing, development and implementation of the Myanmar NFI/NFMIS project and the FAO-supported components of the Myanmar UN-REDD National Programme. [more]

19 September 2017 The contributions made by forests towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not fully explored and understood but FAO and partner organizations are working towards addressing this, FAO Assistant Director-General for Forestry Hiroto Mitsugi said Tuesday. [more]

12 September 2017 Follow the work of FAO Forestry and its partners in the most recent issue of inFO news, a regular news bulletin published by the Foresry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. [more]

16 August 2017 Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade in partnership with the European Union (EU) places a strong emphasis on involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet farmers and communities do not always understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme supported a non-profit association, Sustainable Forest Management Partnership-Ghana, to increase awareness among farmers of their right to negotiate compensation when logging damages crops on their land. [more]

1 August 2017 Implemented by local partners with support from the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme, the projects will further the development of a bilateral trade agreement between Lao PDR and the EU known as a Voluntary Partnership Agreement. [more]

26 July 2017 FAO has developed new guidelines aimed at helping countries develop strong National Forest Monitoring Systems, which are key to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [more]

11 July 2017 The Government of Mozambique, the World Bank and FAO have announced a new project that will strengthen sustainable forest management and contribute to Mozambique achieving Sustainable Development Goal 15 on forests. The $6 million project will be implemented over four years. [more]

4 July 2017 Strengthening strategic communications on the importance of forests and forestry in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia is the focus of a three-day international workshop opening here today. [more]

3 July 2017 The sustainable development of the world’s mountains will be under discussion at the 2017 International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas (IPROMO) taking place in Ormea and Pieve Tesino, Italy, from 5 to 19 July. [more]

26 June 2017 The first of four consultation meetings aimed at finalizing a set of guidelines for the sustainable management of public production forests in tropical countries through forest concessions, in the context of Agenda 2030, begins in Libreville, Gabon on 27 June 2017 and will last for two days. [more]

16 June 2017 Native communities and small and medium forest enterprises (SMEs), operating in the Peruvian Amazon, in the departments of Madre de Dios and Ucayali, are aware of the need to demonstrate the legal origin of their timber as part of market requirements and to comply with the recently approved forest law. The ITTO funded project PD 621/11 Rev.3 (M) has developed a timber traceability system which is now being used by SMEs and native communities in these regions. The video illustrates how traceability is being applied by these stakeholders and its impact in exercising SFM. [more]