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Sustainable food systems deliver both food security and nutrition without compromising future needs. In many countries in Southeast Asia, food production has been leading to stark increases in deforestation and degradation. The region’s tropical...

The way we produce and consume food continues to take a toll on nature. Our food system is responsible for up to one third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and for as much as 80% of the biodiversity loss on our planet. By now, governments...

Indonesia occupies less than 1% of the earth’s land but is home to the third largest expanse of tropical forest in the world after the Amazon and the Congo Basin. These forests are home to an estimated 10 to 15% of all animal and plant species on the...

As highlighted by the UN Decade of Family Farming, forests are essential for food security, livelihoods and natural resource management for smallholder farmers and family farmers worldwide. Rural populations source much of their diets from forests...

The area surrounding the Yacuambi river basin in southern Ecuador harbors some of the last remnants of primary forest between the Andes and the Amazon. The forests and páramo grasslands of this region, also called the “land of birds and waterfalls,”...

In May, 2021, UN-REDD organised its first Global Knowledge Exchange for Latin American countries to share important lessons learned from seeking to access Results-based Payments (RBPs) for REDD+. Over two days, participants from Argentina, Brazil...

The world’s current method of food production isn’t working. Not for the estimated 500 million farming households in the developing world who produce one third of the world’s food, nor for the health of the planet. The current system often...

Following more than a decade of REDD+ readiness and implementation of specific actions to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, many forested countries are now starting to approach the Results-based Payments phase. Before receiving these...

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration was declared to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Decade...

Insufficient forest action has made the world more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic than it should have been. And as the pandemic continues to expose these vulnerabilities, it also offers a new chance for people to act and to rebuild the systems...

Thanks to financial support from UN-REDD, a new platform has been added to the Open Foris family. Launched on 7 July, Arena is an open-source technical solution enabling forest data collection, storage, management and analysis. Open Foris is a suite...

We are in the midst of a confluence of crises. Climate change and biodiversity loss threaten our natural and human systems. COVID-19 has disrupted lives and livelihoods across the planet, driving up to 130 million people into chronic hunger and 124...