ROAM Around the World
A step-by-step online guide makes forest landscape restoration assessments more accessible
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Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2016
Scaling Up Regreening: Six Steps to Success
Landscape Restoration Snapshot GLF 2015
The GPFLR unites governments, organisations and individuals with one common goal: restoring the world's lost forests
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From Border to Border: FLR in Rwanda
Model Forest and Forest Landscape Restoration Networks
The ITTO Biennial Work Programme for 2010-2011 includes Activity 49, which calls for the ITTO and its members to: "Make provision for the ITTO, in collaboration with the Global Partnership for Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) and national institutions to establish and consolidate a learning network of forest landscape restoration model sites for demonstration, exchange of experience and dissemination of best practices."
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ROAM: Online Step-by-Step Guide
The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), produced by IUCN and the World Resources Institute, provides a flexible and affordable framework approach for countries to rapidly identify and analyse forest landscape restoration (FLR) potential and locate specific areas of opportunity at a national or sub-national level.
Learning Sites
On this website we present some examples, listed on the right, where Forest and Landscape Restoration has been or is being implemented.
The sites, tools and policy initiatives of the members of the Partnership represent a variety of geographical areas, stakeholder groups, socio-economic conditions and restoration strategies.
Resources
Scaling Up Regreening: Six Steps to Success: A Practical Approach to Forest and Landscape Restoration
This report presents a way forward. It reviews successful regreening efforts and describes how innovative farmers are increasing their on-farm tree densities, laying out a path for working with farmers to facilitate and accelerate their regreening practices at scale and identifying barriers that need to be overcome.
REDD+ Academy Learning Journals
New IUFRO Book: Forest Landscape Restoration as a Key Component of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Assessing the ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and Rehabilitation of Degraded Secondary Tropical Forests
RSS - News From Our Partners
FORESTS NEWS UPDATE: Q&A on fires and haze in Southeast AsiaReport dispels perceptions about artisanal logging, milling in Congo Basin
African farmland investments face governance challenges
Despite stumbles, Colombia leading the way in ecological restoration
Statement by CIFOR at the UN Climate Change Conference