New technological innovations are needed to halt deforestation and forest degradation
21/03/2025
How innovation is driving change in forestry event: Technical Session 4. New technological innovations are needed to halt deforestation and forest degradation. A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations event to celebrate the International Day of Forests 2024.
E-learning series: Forest Monitoring for Climate Action
06/06/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations presents the 'Forest monitoring for climate action' curriculum. A series of multilingual self-paced e-learning courses that aim to strengthen institutional and technical capacities, meet measurement, reporting and verification requirements, as well as the enhanced transparency framework requisites.
Let's go tree planting: From Global Library of Trees and Flowers – FAO Park to Green Ghana Day
24/04/2024
From the FAO Park Global Library of Trees and Flowers in Rome, Italy, to Green Ghana Day, tree planting initiatives are making waves across continents.
Forests and innovation – new solutions for a better world
21/03/2024
How innovation is driving change in forestry. More info https://bit.ly/49QPPWf #ForestDay
How innovation is driving change in forestry: Opening session
21/03/2024
International Day of Forests 2024. A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations event to celebrate the International Day of Forests 2024. Find out about some of the outstanding innovations that are helping to protect forests and unlock the many benefits they bring.
Technological innovations can empower Indigenous Peoples through mapping and securing customary land
21/03/2024
How innovation is driving change in forestry event: Technical Session 3. Technological innovations can empower Indigenous Peoples through mapping and securing customary land . A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations event to celebrate the International Day of Forests 2024.
Innovation is advancing ecosystem restoration as a powerful nature-based solution to multiple global challenges
21/03/2024
How innovation is driving change in forestry event: Technical Session 2. Innovation is advancing ecosystem restoration as a powerful nature-based solution to multiple global challenges A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations event to celebrate the International Day of Forests 2024.
Guy Makuluka Mukumo (RDC) parle du programme AIM4Forests
13/03/2024
Guy Makuluka Mukumo, officier technique au Programme Intégré pour le Développement du peuple Pygmée (PIDP) au Kivu en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) parle du programme AIM4Forests. AIM4Forests: Accélérer le suivi innovant des forêts.
Khalid Khawaldeh (Jordan) talks about AIM4Forests programme
13/03/2024
Khalid Khawaldeh, Dana and Qadisiyah Local Community Cooperative (Jordan) talks about AIM4Forests programme AIM4Forests: Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests
Innovation and technology have transformed countries’ ability to monitor and report on their forests
21/02/2024
How innovation is driving change in forestry: Technical Session 1. Innovation and technology have transformed countries’ ability to monitor and report on their forests. A Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations event to celebrate the International Day of Forests 2024.
Understanding the EU Deforestation Regulation & the role of geospatial data. Geo for Good 2023
01/11/2023
EU Deforestation Regulation Explained. Rémi d’Annunzio, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Pham Ngoc Hai (Viet Nam) - feedback on the Open foris tools: SEPAL and se.plan
01/08/2023
Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data collection, analysis and reporting.
Brenda Anicia (Uganda) - feedback on the SEPAL Online Facilitated Course
07/07/2023
Brenda Anicia, from the National Forest Authority (Uganda) shares her impressions as a participant of the Online Facilitated course “Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action – SEPAL"
Jorge Armijos (Ecuador) - feedback on the SEPAL Online Facilitated Course
07/07/2023
Jorge Armijos from FAO Ecuador shares his impressions as a participant of the Online Facilitated course “Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action – SEPAL"
Delivered from 24/03 - 7/05/2023, the course aimed to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resol...
SEPAL: A powerful, open-source platform for forest and land monitoring
01/05/2023
SEPAL is a freely available, open-source, powerful computing platform that helps users make efficient and effective use of satellite data for autonomous land monitoring.
Science and innovation for connecting forests and people
20/10/2022
The event showcases the innovative work of FAO and its partners to understand the interlinked challenges facing forests and forest-proximate peoples worldwide.
8th World Forest Week Special Event: Data and digital innovation for forestry
07/10/2022
Relevant, accurate, up-to-date and transparent information on forests contributes to better reporting, policy formulation and decision-making at different levels. This event will highlight open-source digital innovations from FAO including SEPAL and ARENA and feature several country applications. The new technology of blockchain also offers a range of applications in forestry.
FAO–GLF DIGITAL FORUM: Transforming agrifood systems with forests
29/09/2022
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement on climate change.
Monitoring the forests to restore ecosystems
04/05/2022
The vision of the Task Force on Monitoring is that a science-based restoration movement should be informed by the best available technology and data for planning and monitoring restoration actions on the ground. And, that the latest innovations should be broadly accessible to restoration stakeholders – this can help turn commitments into actions and can help scale investments in restoration.