People and forests
News
Four beauty products found in forests
18/03/2022
International Women’s Day: Empowering women in forest communities is key to achieving climate goals and SDGs
08/03/2022
Protecting wildlife and Indigenous Peoples’ livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
03/03/2022
Publications
Expanding social protection in rural areas, focusing on fisheries and forestry
2019
This special issue of Policy in Focus opens with an article on universal social protection in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), exploring the expansion of social protection and related challenges over the last decades.
FAO Forestry Paper 183: FAO framework methodology for climate change vulnerability assessments of forests and forest dependent people
2019
This publication provides practitioners with step-by-step guidance for conducting vulnerability assessments using the most appropriate tools. The guide will be useful for anyone conducting vulnerability assessments involving trees or forests, including forest owners, managers and administrators in the private and public sectors and in community forestry organizations, and land-use planners.
Assessing the governance of tenure for improving forests and livelihoods
2019
A tool to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure to help countries evaluate their forest tenure systems, particularly those that facilitate participation of non-state actors in forestry, including co-management regimes, community forestry, smallholder forestry, large holder forestry, or company concessions granted on State lands.