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Women and men frequently have differing roles, responsibilities and priorities in their use, knowledge and experience of forests. This knowledge can offer critical inputs to policy and field interventions that will enable the long-term success of...

In Tierra del Fuego, in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic region, the UN-REDD project, supported by UN Environment Chile is restoring native forests affected by the Canadian beaver. To date, and with a total of 22,696 plants, the 27 hectares...

It is often acknowledged that making decisions based on scientific evidence is good practice and that, therefore, providing decision-makers with reliable information is an important development strategy. This is also true in the forest sector, where...

Approximately 2.5 billion people worldwide rely on collective lands as a source of food, fuel and income. The customary claims of indigenous peoples and local communities cover more than half the global landmass, including some of the most important...

Welcome to our first Resource in 2020, the Super Year for Nature. We have ahead of us 10 months packed with critical milestones for people and planet. And forests, a tested, proven and available key nature-based solution with an annual 5.3 GtCO2e...

We’ve been talking about the need to protect the world’s forests for decades now. Dozens of movements, campaigns and international declarations over the years have tried to underscore the critical role forests play in biodiversity conservation, water...

REDD+ is entering an exciting new phase. After years of preparation, an increasing number of countries are advancing in the implementation of REDD+ actions on the ground. One such country is Democratic Republic of the Congo, where FAO recently...

Forests are crucial to sustainable development in many ways, from local livelihoods to the global commons. Yet, for decades, indigenous peoples – the leading curators and ambassadors of forests – have suffered political exclusion. More recently...

In Peru, about 12.7 million hectares of Amazon rainforest lies in the territories of indigenous communities, territories that represent more than 19% of the country's forests. Peru’s indigenous communities play an essential role in the sustainable...

REDD+ is a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation. It offers developing countries incentives for conserving their forests and for taking action to reduce or remove carbon emissions from forests. REDD+ actions can also help secure many...

”I worked for four months in my cocoa plantation, earning $300. With that, I’ll have to live for four months, until my cocoa trees have produced another two batches of beans.” This is Bamba Ibrahim, a 35-year-old cocoa farmer in Agboville in the...