Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Tools

A tool is a resource that supports and guides the implementation of SFM. This section includes all the tools available in the SFM Toolbox, which can be in form of publications, e-learning videos, software etc.

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PANORAMA, Solutions for a Healthy Planet, through its “protected areas solutions” thematic community, assemble case studies that showcase how protected areas provide solutions to a multitude of global challenges, such as climate change, food and water security. This platform places protected area solutions in a larger pool of solutions from...
PaDIL is an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with Museum Victoria, Plant Health Australia, the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia and the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre. Its website has a network of initiatives related to biosecurity that can be shared also on...
PaDIL is an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with Museum Victoria, Plant Health Australia, the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia and the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre. Its website has a network of initiatives related to biosecurity that can be shared also on...
In cooperation with the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Washington Department of Natural Resources, the Alaska Division of Forestry, the Idaho Department of Lands, and Oregon State University, the Pacific Northwest International Society of Arboricolture welcomes you to the Pacific Northwest Urban Forestry Online Learning Portal. This site funded in...
This is an open-access and peer reviewed journal published twice a year. It aims to be a useful resource for people actively involved in establishing and managing protected areas, under any management category or governance type. . The language is English, with abstracts in French and Spanish.
This guide draws on practical experiences of establishing Participatory Forest Management (PFM) within the Non Timber Forest Product – Participatory Forest Management (NTFPPFM) Research and Development project in South West Ethiopia. It contains an overview of: the rationale and principles of PFM; detailed PFM steps and activities, a toolbox of...
The purpose of this PLUP Handbook is to provide practical tools and methods for PLUP implementation based on experiments conducted by the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) together with relevant district line agencies (District Land Management Authority (DLMA) and the District Agriculture and Forestry Offices (DAFO) with the...
This manual aims only to inform people about how participatory techniques might be used in community forestry, not to promote rigid guidelines about how they should be used. It was written to help people make choices about how they will do their community forestry job. This manual is different than other publications...
This toolkit is a useful resource for equipping local communities with the necessary techniques and methodologies for analysing their local situations to adapt to climate change through local-level actions. It also aims to help ensure that climate-change adaptation is mainstreamed into all types of development programmes by delivering appropriate actions...
A healthy ecosystem can provide a variety of crucial services for public goods, such as clean water, nutrient cycling, climate regulation and food security services that contribute directly or indirectly to human well-being. Yet today, many ecosystems are in decline; this is of particular importance to agriculture, which depends on...