During The Restoration Initiative (TRI) Capacity-Building week at FAO headquarters, gathering all national TRI project teams and Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) project teams, participants had a chance to visit the Model Forest of the Aterno Valley. The objective of this field trip was to visit a Model Forest, showing how different land uses and related value chains can interact and collaborate to promote a sustainable and integrated management of natural resources at the landscape level.

A local forest technician presented the current status of local forest resources: rural abandonment has caused rapid forest expansion leading to an increasing  risk of fires and an uncontrolled growth of forest resources. The integrated and sustainable management of these resources is enhanced by the Model Forest, which promotes a sustainable and integrated management of woods to maximize the goods and services that they can provide.

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