The call is open to regional and global organizations, networks, unions, associations, cooperatives or alliances of forest users, smallholder farmers, women, communities and Indigenous Peoples. There will be ten grants for regional organizations up to USD50,000 and one grant for an international association of max USD100,000. Deadline for submission February 19.

With a scope of preserving ancestral indigenous knowledge in times of deforestation, Mayangna Indigenous Women in Nicaragua, with Territorial Women Leaders of Mesoamerica and healers assembled 40 native plant recipes in this new book published by the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests.

Despite existing vulnerabilities, forest communities have shwon a great deal of resilience in the face of COVID-19 crisis. This FAO working paper identifies seven key pathways and 14 strategic actions for forest communities to recover and building back better from COVID-19. 

This report is an assessment of available options (geospatial/local measurement and modelling) and their strengths and weaknesses for measuring forest landscape restoration by forest and farm producer organisations.

Join the Forest and Farm Facility and FAO partners at the "Nature for life" virtual event on Wednesday 30 November at 21.15 GMT+1. We will feature examples of diversification approaches and agroecology pratices developed by forest and farm producers organizations in Ecuador to build more resilient agrifood systems.