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Forest management
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Sustainable Forest Management Toolbox
The Sustainable Forest Management Toolbox is a comprehensive collection of tools, best practices and case studies to help forest owners and managers; policymakers; students and other stakeholders implement sustainable forest management.
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Enhancing efforts for productive and resilient dryland landscapes in Southern Africa
29/07/2024
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New manual aims to improve accuracy of mangrove monitoring
26/07/2024
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FAO launches updated guidelines to tackle extreme wildfires
26/07/2024
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FAO Forestry Paper 180: Making forest concessions in the tropics work to achieve the 2030 Agenda
2018
The decision to develop a set of voluntary guidelines for forest concessions in the tropics, in the context of the 2030 Agenda, stems from the need to advance the implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM).
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Rethinking forest concessions
2018
This report forms part of a review aimed at providing advice on improving forest concession systems in tropical forests. The review was carried out by FAO in cooperation with the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Brazilian Forest Service, the Center for International Forestry Research and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement.
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Zero-deforestation commitments: A new avenue towards enhanced forest governance?
2018
The zero-deforestation movement has gained considerable momentum as governments and companies enter into commitments to curb deforestation. These pledges have created opportunities for improved forest governance by envisaging the private sector at the centre of the movement.