This booklet is a “portable” version of chapters 1–3 of SOFO 2016: State of the World’s Forests 2016 report. This 32-page booklet includes tables, figures and key messages from the SOFO flagship, enabling readers to access the most important content in a succinct easy-to-use format.< i…

Gender is of particular interest in the sustainable management of wildlife as it relates to the use, attitudes, and knowledge of the resource. Different strategies are often needed to fully engage both women and men in wildlife-related management. This fact sheet shows the important role played…

Un resumen de los capítulos 1 a 3 del informe 2016 sobre el estado de los bosques del mundo. Este librito de 32 páginas recoge tablas, datos y figuras de la publicación SOFO, permitiendo a los lectores que accedan al contenido más importante en un formato conciso y de fácil manejo. Este resumen…

Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/11
Session: Sess.16

Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2016/7.6
Session: Sess. 23

Bamboo Housing regenerates deforested areas by creating self-suf- cient housing communities that cultivate their own raw materials. This poster is one of a selection of entries from the TREEHOUSING International Wood Design Competition that was run by FAO and DBR | Design Build Research School…

El objetivo de este documento es ayudar a los países que tratan de desarrollar un nivel de referencia de emisiones forestales y/o un sistema de referencia forestal (NREF/NRF) de REDD+ en el marco de la CMNUCC. El documento facilita un repaso estructural de los requisitos de la CMNUCC para la…

Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/16
Session: Sess.16

Meeting Name: International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Ad Hoc Technical Committee on Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Meeting symbol/code: IT/ACSU-3/16/3
Session: Sess. 3

Colombia has submitted two national communications (NCs 2001, 2010) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), providing information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, and measures to mitigate and facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change, among other…

Esta sistematización contempla dos elementos que confluyen, por un lado, el cuidado delmedio ambiente y por otro, el derecho de las comunidades a decidir sobre las accionesestatales en su territorio. Por supuesto los inteños le apuestan a la producción agrícola ypecuaria, apuesta que no…

Los comuneros de Tola Chica, en Ecuador, resisten varios intentos de quitarles su tierra, pero esta lucha no impide que continúen con procesos internos de cohesión en los que la fiesta anual juega un papel importante.