The Napo Province of the Ecuadorian Amazon is home to Indigenous Kichwa communities. The cultural heritage of these communities includes highly complex agroforestry production systems known as ‘Chakra’ that incorporate cash crops such as cocoa, vanilla, coffee and guayusa alongside subsistence cassava, banana, corn beans and peanuts and a host...

The Twenty-fifth Session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) was planned to take place at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy from 22-26 June 2020. The Session was postponed due to the ongoing health crisis. COFO will be convened virtually from 5 to 9 October 2020. It was preceded on 22-25...

The Forest and Farm Facilty will participate in this session to enhance the linkages between the ongoing Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 and the forthcoming UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 and to request guidance from the Committee on actions to be taken by FAO to support countries in addressing these,...

Bolivia has more than 50 million hectares of forest, the vast majority of which is in the Amazon region, which covers 43% of Bolivia's territory. Logging and uncontrolled fires are degrading large areas of the remaining forest. Furthermore, more than 80% of deforestation and logging is illegal. Deforestation is responsible...

Beyond governments and corporations lies a massive resource with the power to reshape our world.    Our lands and waters are degrading. So we...