On 21 March, the International Day of Forests, 200 organizations have petitioned the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) stating that its forest definition dating back to 1948 is “misleading” and must be changed. According to the petition signatories, the FAO definition has allowed the plantations industry to hide the “devastating ecological and social impacts of large-scale monoculture tree plantations” behind a positive forest image.
Real Solutions, Mapped from the Ground Up
GFC members and allies are helping to build a new gender-just map of community-led solutions for forests, people and the planet. What does a real solution to the climate and biodiversity crises look like? It might be an agroecological farming system rooted in...
