Yokohama, 22 October 2021: Outreach and strategies for income diversification and monitoring are crucial for fostering landscape restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to participants at a recent webinar co-hosted by ITTO and the Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Education (CATIE).

Yokohama, 19 October 2021: Sustainable forestry struggles to remunerate forest owners as well as agriculture, but the wider benefits of forests, especially natural forests, for local people, nations and the planet are so vast that we need ways to retain them in a world in which money talks loudly. The latest edition of the TFU features recent studies looking at ways to increase the income that tropical forests generate.

Yokohama, 14 October 2021: A workshop involving about 30 African forestry experts has validated a draft new version of the ITTO criteria and indicators for the sustainable management of African tropical forests, which, according to participants in a statement, marks a new beginning for the monitoring of sustainable forest management (SFM) in Africa.

Yokohama, 29 September 2021: Creating sustainable livelihood opportunities and obtaining the buy-in of local people through inclusive approaches are key for successful forest landscape restoration, according to participants at a virtual workshop for the Asia-Pacific region co-convened by ITTO and the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO).

Yokohama, 16 September 2021: Forest landscape restoration is a multifaceted endeavour that must improve local livelihoods to succeed, according to participants at a recent webinar for Central America and Mexico co-hosted by ITTO and the Tropical Agricultural Centre for Research and Education (CATIE).

Yokohama, 14 September 2021: There will be a substantial increase in wood consumption in India by 2030, exacerbating an existing shortfall between wood production and demand and increasing the country’s reliance on wood imports, according to an ITTO report published today that analyzes India’s timber market dynamics to 2030.