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In this report, WRI researchers explore how rising demand for food, wood and shelter is squeezing land that’s needed for storing carbon and protecting biodiversity. This research uses...

This report focuses on the second task of the Administrative Arrangement ESTAT-2021-0372, named LAFOWA, and signed between DG ESTAT and DG JRC. Task 2 aims to update and extend...

Syakaa talked about why timber is a good construction solution for East Africa, the challenges of building a market in the region, East African timber pioneers and what is being...

This Policy Brief is written by experts of the SCAR Strategic Working Groups (SWGs) ARCH and FOREST, and based on inputs from a virtual expert workshop jointly organised by the two SWGs...

On 17 November 2021, the European Commission tabled a legislative proposal aimed at curbing deforestation and forest degradation driven by the expansion of agricultural land used to produce specific...

Eurostat publishes annual data on forestry which come from two different 'questionnaires'. The Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire (JFSQ) The European Forest Accounts

The region of North Karelia, Finland, has a strong forest-based bioeconomy sector as a result of many years of determined work. A new report by researchers from the European Forest Institute...

The region of North Karelia, Finland, has a strong forest-based bioeconomy sector. This report describes the region’s opportunities for increasing co-operation in forest-based bioeconomy with China. The forest-based bioeconomy...

Only if there is a fundamental change in the way we manage land can we reach the targets of climate-change mitigation, avert the dramatic loss of biodiversity and make...

Context: Selective logging has been commonly mapped using binary maps, representing logged and unlogged forests. However, binary maps may fall short...