Publications & Insight

Forest governance and COVID-19: How can FLEGT support a green recovery from the pandemic?

Human society is enduring one of the greatest global health crises of the past century: COVID-19. As the urgency of tackling the pandemic took centre stage, policy issues such as the implementation of the Forest Law Enforcement...

01/12/2020

Webinar: Unleashing the potential of Community-based forest and wildlife management for building back better: livelihoods, biodiversity, and climate resilience in Africa

Webinar organised by FAO’s Forest Technical Network in Africa (FTN-Africa) 

Monday 7 December 2020 – 11:00-12:30 (Accra/GMT) 12:00 – 13:30 (Kinshasa/Rome time) 

Register here

Background

Most countries in Africa are committed...

30/11/2020

Films

An activist’s guide to the EU

How does the EU impact the world and how can civil society influence EU policies?

The EU has a huge influence over the fate of the world’s forests.

Its trade deals, aid strategies, energy and climate policies, and imports of...

19/11/2020

Forest Governance 1 - November 2020

The first edition of Fern's new Forest Governance newsletter

16/11/2020

EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: What’s in it for indigenous peoples and local communities?

The webinar took place on 19 November 2020 – 9h-13h Brussels time

Recordings of the  event with interpretation  in English, French, Spanish and Russian are available.

Background

Faced with the urgent need to restore...

28/10/2020

Films

3 reasons land tenure is vital for forests, people and the planet

Indigenous land rights are essential to reduce deforestation, fight climate change and build resilient forests and communities. In fact, lands own or managed by Indigenous Peoples or local communities, hold over 36% of intact...

22/10/2020

Raising the ambition on global aspects of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy

The Farm to Fork Strategy includes a section on the external dimension entitled “Promoting the Global Transition”. The attention for the external dimension is crucial not only because the challenges the Strategy is seeking to...

08/10/2020

News

COVID-19 in the Central African Republic: civil society’s response to the pandemic

The World Health Organisation (WHO) considers the Central African health system to be among the most fragile in the world, making the country particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health protocols have been in...

02/10/2020

Annual Reports

Annual Report 2019

The world’s forests, and the rights of many who depend on them, remained under assault in 2019.

These attacks came from many directions: from the erosion of environmental and human rights protections in Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro, to the Amazon fires; from the EU’s devastating bioenergy policy, to its raft of Free Trade Agreements with forested countries to increase our insatiable consumption of products that drive deforestation; from a lack of secure tenure rights for people depending on forests for their survival, to failures of transparency and accountability in the forest sector… 

23/06/2020

News

Rescuing Cameroon’s Ebo forest could provide testing ground for local land use solutions

Donors should take note of well-considered alternative to forest conversion.

10/06/2020