This FAO document provides an example of sustainable agroforestry development in Indonesia. It demonstrates that damar agroforests can increase farm income, create jobs, increase food production, reduce poverty and greenhouse gas emissions and improve soil condition. In conclusion, damar agroforests have great potential to improve the environment and livelihoods of...

FAO and the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD have joined efforts to prepare this discussion paper on sustainable financing for FLR. This document provides an overview of existing funding sources and financial instruments that could be used and adapted specifically for implementation of FLR efforts at the national, regional and global...

These guidelines and case studies are intended to help create a framework for investment related to SLM in SSA. The particular aim of these guidelines is to identify, analyse, discuss and disseminate promising SLM practices - including both technologies and approaches - in the light of the latest trends and...

The Miombo woodland is a vast African dryland forest ecosystem covering close to 2.7 million km2 across southern Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). It is estimated that the woodlands sustain the livelihoods of more than 100 million rural poor and 50 million...

This book, with contributions from 25 authors, tells in brief the history of forestry in Suriname and some other tropical countries. It reveals how the work on forestry in Suriname led to the development of a potentially sustainable forest management system, integrating a harvesting and a silvicultural system. And it...

This case study illustrates Namibia's progress in wildlife conservation. The story describes the nature of the progress, analysis of the factors that have contributed to progress and lessons for policy makers. Before independence in 1990, wildlife populations in Namibia’s communal areas were plummeting as a result of extensive poaching during prolonged...

This case study presents information on a critically endangered tree species with a narrow distribution in eastern Ghana. The species is now restricted to small forest reserves and farmers’ land and, despite being given the highest status for conservation in Ghana, is seriously threatened with extinction from fire, harvesting for firewood...

Managing the Family Forest in Mississippi is a video lecture series designed to be a primer on forest management for private landowners. Each of the 13 stand-alone videos address a topic from the Managing the Family Forest in Mississippi book, which can be downloaded at msucares.com. Viewers are encouraged to...

Programmes to reduce emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation, such as REDD+ and other forestry incentive programmes, including Payment for Environmental Services (PES), could represent an opportunity to strengthen processes of conservation, sustainable usage and poverty reduction in the Mesoamerican region, particularly in indigenous territories and communities. Analysing the context...

The document is a policy brief based on a series of reviews commissioned by FAO to increase understanding about the role of forest tenure in African countries and to provide information for the Global Forest Resources Assessment.