Seacology, in collaboration with Sri Lanka-based NGO Sudeesa, works to make Sri Lanka the world’s first nation to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests. Their approach is to use job-training and microfinance programs to 15,000 impoverished Sri Lankans alternative ways to earn a living that do not entail cutting...

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture was adopted by the Thirty-first session of the FAO Conference on 3 November 2001 and entered into force on 29 June 2004; the objectives of the Treaty are the conservation and sustainable use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food...

The diversity of forest management experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that sustainable forest management is achievable and can be a highly competitive option in a variety of contexts. Communities, companies, NGOs and the state itself, which owns most of the forests in the region, have applied techniques...

The State of Mediterranean Forests 2018 analyzes the circum- Mediterranean region, a territory encompassing thirty-one countries and a wide range of political, economic, social and environmental contexts. Today, human activity has placed substantial pressure on this environment, the impact of which is felt differently in the northern, southern and eastern...

Agriculture remains the most significant driver of global deforestation. Large-scale commercial agriculture and subsistence agriculture currently account for 73 percent of deforestation in the tropics and subtropics. However, it is possible under certain conditions to achieve sustainable agriculture and food security while also halting deforestation. A new study from FAO...

Well-performing community-based forestry has the potential to rapidly restore forests in ecological terms and scale up sustainable forest management to the national level, while improving local livelihoods of billions of the most marginalized people around the world. This document highlights the findings from a forest tenure and community-based forestry assessment...

Sorious Samura introduces a video explaining the importance of the EU's Action Plan to improve the way forests are owned and managed and ensure that timber imported into the EU is legal.

For many years, FAO and AgriCord have supported cooperation between individual farmers, groups and communities to improve agricultural production. Given the increasing amount of forest and forest land now managed and controlled by individuals and communities, the need to strengthen cooperation in terms of forest products (wood and non-wood) and...

Various cash-for-work programmes have been implemented in Peru to promote sustainable land management and agroforestry practices. These programmes provide financial incentives to indigenous and local communities to engage in activities such as reforestation, agroforestry system establishment and forest protection. The National Direct Support Program for the Poorest – UNTOS, Programa...

The project Strengthening criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management in policy and practice was designed to: further develop and harmonise indicators of SFM in particular on socio-economic and governance aspects, and strengthen their use as a tool in planning, decision making and in monitoring and reporting in policy...