This guide is an initiative of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership with a mission to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and effi cient household cooking solutions. The Alliance is committed to providing resources that advance the...

Producers who are often specialists in harvesting or manufacturing goods using forest resources may have limited experience in marketing. They may not know how to obtain and make use of information that would help them make informed decisions about what to sell, and where and when to market their products...

Marxan is a suite of tools designed to help decision makers find good solutions to conservation planning problems. This includes free software that can be used to solve several types of planning problems and extensive documentation and examples describing a framework for approaching conservation planning. Marxan is the most frequently...

Do you want to find out how nature can help in protecting people from disasters and solving the climate crisis? Then this free online course is for you! Learn what young people and teachers, policy makers, practitioners, businesses and engineers can do to get involved in our race against the...

This manual was developed by a group of teachers from the North Vietnam College of Agriculture and Rural Development and experts from Danish Forestry Extension. The manual was used as training material for training 41 Farmer Field Facilitators, staff from the More Trees Project, and staff from the Farmers Unions...

The e-learning on the ‘National socioeconomic surveys in forestry’ comprises four courses that aim to provide guidance on the use of forestry modules to collect data on the socioeconomic contributions of forests and non-forests environments to household welfare and livelihoods. This course introduces the definitions related to forest and wild...

This note focuses on the topic of access to fuel and energy in protracted crises, and the possible solutions using the SAFE approach, illustrated by case studies from FAO's interventions in protracted crisis situations. Access to fuel and energy – vital for food security – is often highly constrained in...

Adaptation is necessary for reducing the impacts of climate change on forests and societies. So far, forests, forest ecosystem services, and forest-dependent people or sectors have not been adequately represented in adaptation studies or policies, even though many methods and tools are available to help scientists or practitioners address questions...

This report details the steps needed to design a system to assess and monitor change in ecosystem services resulting from afforestation, reforestation and forest restoration projects or programmes. It discusses the methods required and refers to useful existing guidance on monitoring and indicators that will be of help in deciding...

Jake Miesbauer, research arborist, describes methods for improving the resistance of urban trees to storm-related damage at 2014 Urban Tree Conference.