Reducing deforestation and forest degradation, restoring forests, and sustainably managing forests are all critical pathways to meeting the 2030 global goals. Since 1990, more than 420 million hectares of forest have disappeared. Although deforestation rates have slowed, 10 million hectares of forest are still lost every year. World leaders have committed to halting deforestation and restoring more than 1 billion hectares of degraded land. However, progress has been hindered due to the lack of information at various levels.
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Leading the way to more effective forest monitoring
To address such challenges, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have launched AIM4Forests, a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well as the use of space data and remote sensing.
The new programme is all about leveraging technical innovation to create data and information to inform the right courses of action to reduce deforestation and restore forests. AIM4Forests will leverage everything that technology and innovation offers such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In addition, it will also make sure that the capacity is transferred to countries, including IPs and local communities who manage the forests – only that way can we see real change.
Highlights
World Forest Voices: Meet the COFO Champions! Part 1
Hear from our COFO Champions in the new World Food Forum podcast series "World Forest Voices"
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AIM4Forests Impact Report 2023/24
Click here to discover last year's AIM4Forests journey (April 2023 - April 2024).
Interview with Olgah Hellens (Kenya) on the e-learning series Forest Monitoring for Climate Action
19/11/2024
Olgah Hellens, Founder and Director of iConserve in Kenya, and Forest Carbon Champion supported by the FAO’s AIM4Forests programme, shares her insights on the FAO e-learning series “Forest Monitoring for Climate Action”. Olgah discusses how the e-learning series empowered her community with essen...
Brazilian Forest Service objectives: Interview with Marcus Vinicius Alves, Deputy Director-General
17/09/2024
Marcus Vinicius Alves, Deputy Director-General from the Brazilian Forest Service, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, discusses the current objectives of the Brazilian Forest Service. He highlights innovative solutions used in forest monitoring, and the important role of Indigenous Peoples.
Main publications
Forest monitoring for transparent commodity supply chains
19/11/2024
Over the last two decades, consumers have grown more aware of the environmental and social impacts of commodity production. Many companies have started...
Options for addressing the risk of non-permanence for land-based mitigation in carbon crediting programmes
05/11/2024
To mitigate climate change, global efforts must focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and removing atmospheric CO2. Carbon crediting programmes...
A Land Indicator for traditional knowledge, land tenure and use on Indigenous and traditional territories
03/10/2024
Land governance is fundamental to the achievement of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the secure land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local...
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Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations What is in that plot? (Whisp) solution to implement convergence of evidence
31/05/2024
This is a collaborative effort between partners and programmes such as the European Union’s Team Europe Initiative (TEI), the AIM4Forests and the Forest...
Technological innovation driving transparent forest monitoring and reporting for climate action
21/03/2024
This paper reviews how countries are benefiting from technical innovations in their monitoring and reporting of forest-related emissions and removals...
Good practices in sample-based area estimation
14/02/2024
This paper seeks to enable donors, academia, and countries that currently use or want to use sample-based area estimation (SBAE) for generating activity...
National Forest Inventories of Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards the harmonization of forest information
20/07/2021
This publication represents a milestone in the beginning of the harmonization process towards data transparency within the forestry sector in Latin...
Estimating emissions and removals from forest degradation: An overview of country experience
02/05/2023
This booklet provides an overview of the methodological options available to countries to address these challenges while collecting the emerging experience...
Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests
04/05/2023
AIM4Forests is a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well...
Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests
04/05/2023
AIM4Forests is a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well as the use of space data and remote sensing.
E-learnings
Introduction to Forest Mapping and Monitoring Tools for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
01/10/2024
In this self-paced course, you will gain basic information about popular forest mapping and monitoring tools and understand how they can help Indigenous...
Sharing the experience on “Forest and land monitoring for climate action – SEPAL” facilitated course
17/06/2024
The overall objective of this course is to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite imagery to critical...
E-learning series: National forest inventory
02/01/2024
The national forest inventory (NFI) e-learning series consisting of eight courses provides an overview of the key phases of an NFI, from planning to...
Data management in a national forest inventory
01/10/2023
This course provides an overview of information gathering and data management for national forest inventories (NFI).
Introduction to sampling
01/10/2023
This course covers the general aspects of sampling in forest inventories and aims to introduce the basic concepts and characteristics of a sampling...
Our activities
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AIM4Forests: One year of impact
22/04/2024
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