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Waste not, want not: Wood residues for sustainable bioenergy, innovative business and climate change mitigation
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Urban greenery helps avert multiple crises for dryland cities, FAO report shows
21/12/2022
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Social organization key to future crisis response for forest communities – FAO report
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What have we learned from trees? Three decades of farmer field schools on agroforestry and forestry
2022
Over the last three decades, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have proven to be an effective discovery-learning-capacity building approach to help rural populations to innovate with more clarity and purpose while building the social skills needed for rural transformation and empowerment.
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FAO’s work on gender in forestry
2022
his brochure shows how the different initiatives, programmes and projects of the FAO Forestry Division mainstream gender into their implementing activities and contribute to strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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The State of the World's Forests 2022
2022
The 2022 edition explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable production and consumption.