Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Public Forestry Institutions

The purpose of this module is to equip forestry directors, facilitators and decision-makers with the basic tools for carrying out assessments of public forestry institutions, supporting the design of change processes, and measuring organizational change. The module provides information, guidance and examples of tools for assessing and strengthening public forestry institutions so they can perform their functions more effectively and efficiently. 

Strength in numbers. Effective forest producer organizations
02 June 2014
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...
Success cases and good practices in forest owners' organizations in Eastern European countries
14 April 2014
In 2011, the European Forest Institute Central-East European Regional Office (EFICEEC) conducted a study for FAO to improve knowledge on the origins, evolution and current situation of forest owners’ associations and cooperatives in selected Eastern European countries, assess their effectiveness, and analyse lessons learned from experience of legislation, policies, strategies,...
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