Dryland Summer School
Dryland Summer School The FAO Committee on Forestry Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems is organising a summer school that will take place on September 12 – 15, 2023. The course will explore transformative approaches to building climate-resilient dryland systems. You will come away with knowledge on: The key concepts of [...]
18th UNFF Delegation Report
Shaping Tomorrow's Forestry Leaders (UNFF Delegation Report): Youth Perspectives and Lessons from The 18th United Nations Forum and Forests Session 2023 Introduction The UN Forum on Forests is a vital commission of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with a diverse membership from around the globe. Since its inception in 2000, this [...]
Open Call – Development Fund June 2023
Open Call - Development Fund June 2023 What is the Development Fund? The development fund is a part of the IFSA budget that is used to support IFSA members to engage in IFSA Activities. The lack of financial resources is one of the major factors that limit the involvement in IFSA and its [...]
Official Of The Month May 2023
Official Of The Month May 2023 Congratulations to the Language Sub-Commission, Meynard Sitorus, Cynthia Gamboa, and Elif Dübüs, for being the May 2023 Officials of the Month! The team has exceptionally executed the Spanish and German Language Schools, which both concluded this month. They also translated the IFSA presentation into five languages. Congratulations, and keep up [...]
Southern European Regional Meeting 2023 Event Report
Southern Europe Regional Meeting 2023 Event Report This spring, between the 15th and 21st of May, LC Dren from the Faculty of Forestry, Landscape Architecture, and Ecoengineering “Hans Em” in Macedonia hosted the 2023 edition of SERM. After the earthquakes in Southeastern Turkey, LC Istanbul could not host SERM. Therefore LC Dren applied [...]
Forests and Climate Transparency Webinar Series
“Forests and Climate TransparencyWebinar Series from FAO Introduction Countries have made substantial advances in developing and operationalizing their National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) to comply with the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) framework under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as to provide better forest data to effectively support decision-making and [...]