NFMS assessment tool

2020

To support efforts towards forest monitoring, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) assessment tool to help countries to identify capacity gaps and weaknesses and address their real needs in a targeted manner.

Boosting transparency of forest data for climate action

2020

Forests play a central role in combating climate change by absorbing and storing carbon from the atmosphere in their vegetation and soils. Better forest information is needed to make policies and decisions to protect and sustainably manage forest resources.  

Information note: Strengthening national forest monitoring systems through a comprehensive capacity needs assessment

2020

A lack of institutional and individual capacity often undermines the long-term impact of otherwise technically sound programmes. Tosupport efforts towards sound and impactful forest monitoring, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a national forest monitoring system (NFMS) assessment tool to help countries identify capacity gaps and weaknesses in order to address their real needs in a targeted manner.

Case study Costa Rica: Costa Rica advances in the development of a national system for monitoring land and ecosystem cover and use

2020

The Republic of Costa Rica is a Central American country largely covered by tropical forest that exhibits high biodiversity. The country has made many efforts to conserve its forests and biodiversity, although in most cases forest and agricultural resources have been independently assessed.

Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)

2020

"Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” is a two-year-long FAO project under the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).   The global project will strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries to collect, analyze and disseminate forest-related data....

Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring

2020

The voluntary guidelines on national forest monitoring aim to present a general framework for the compilation of good practice principles, methodologies and tools for planning and implementing a multi-purpose national forest inventory and to establish long-term forest monitoring systems grounded in sound practice. The guidelines are designed as a technical reference or framework that takesi nto consideration the needs and capacities of member countries.