6 February 2024 As countries increasingly qualify for payments under the REDD+ process and schemes in return for reducing their emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a new report from FAO and UN-REDD highlights the need for legal clarity on who owns emission reductions and who is entitled to benefit from those payments. [more]

1 February 2024 FAO has released its first practical guide to using participatory video, an innovative community-led technique that monitors change in development projects and programmes, with the aim of improving sustainability in dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems. [more]

8 January 2024 The availability of seeds and seedlings directly influences the delivery of benefits to land users from restoration efforts. Yet, despite more than a decade of global restoration commitments and programmes, substantial gaps remain worldwide in individual, organizational and sectoral capacities to source and deliver quality tree seeds and seedlings for restoration, especially of native species. [more]

11 December 2023 This publication, jointly developed by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme, analyses several mountain ecosystem restoration projects and recommends how the UN Decade’s Ten Principles for Ecosystem Restoration can be applied to mountain ecosystems. [more]

21 November 2023 Approximately one-third of the world’s population depend on forests for their livelihoods. Forest-dependent people require social protection because they are often poor, geographically, politically and socially marginalized. This document presents a guiding framework to assist mainly governments, development organizations and civil society organizations in attaining coherence between social protection and forest policies to improve the well-being of forest-dependent people. [more]