The State of the World’s Forests 2024 was prepared under the overall direction of Wu Zhimin, Director, FAO Forestry Division, by a core technical team comprising Amy Duchelle, Lyndall Bull, Ben Ross, Anssi Pekkarinen, Julian Fox, Sven Walter and Thomas Hofer. It benefited from inputs from the following innovation experts: Fabrizio Bresciani, Vincent Gitz, Eric Hansen, Inge Jonckheere, Cecilia Luttrell, Mokena Makeka, Duncan Mayes, Rajat Panwar, Selvaraju Ramasamy, Ewald Rametsteiner, James Roshetko and Lúcia Wadt; Lauri Hetemäki contributed an analysis of wood demand projections. Alastair Sarre edited the publication, and Annika Cobb, Christine Legault, Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs, Roberto Cenciarelli, Sharon Darcy, Maria De Cristofaro, Donna Kilcawley and Marco Santarnecchi provided additional support. Chapter contributors and reviewers are listed below.
Chapter authors and other contributors
Chapter 1: Core technical team and Alastair Sarre.
Chapter 2: Anne Branthomme, Valeria Contessa, Xavier de Lamo, Arvydas Lebedys, Monica Garzuglia, Julian Fox, Lauri Hetemäki, Örjan Jonsson, Adolfo Kindgard, Chiara Patriarca, Anssi Pekkarinen, Shiroma Sathyapala, Kenichi Shono, Simona Sorrenti, Lara Steil and Sven Walter.
Chapter 3: Eric Hansen and Cecilia Luttrell, with Rémi d’Annunzio, Simone Borelli, Marco Boscolo, Lyndall Bull, Bruno Cammaert, Amy Duchelle, Julian Fox, Inge Jonckheere, Jarkko Koskela, Petri Lehtonen, Qiang Ma, Margaret Mayer, Duncan Mayes, Caroline Merle, Giulia Muir, Vahid Nasir, Rajat Panwar, Anssi Pekkarinen, Laureana de Prado, Ben Ross and Ashley Steel.
Chapter 4: André Felipe Alves de Andrade, Rémi d’Annunzio, Ward Anseeuw, Christophe Besacier, Maria Teresa di Benedetto, Hubert Boulet, Fritjof Boerstler, Nhaydu Bohórquez, Lyndall Bull, Ramón Carrillo, Thomas Cavanagh, Dario Cipolla, Amy Duchelle, María Alejandra Chaux Echeverri, Yelena Finegold, Marguerite France-Lanord, Serena Fortuna, Julian Fox, Paul Fuge, Laura Guarnieri, William de Groot, Fidaa Haddad, Eric Hansen, Thomas Hofer, Inge Jonckheere, Patrick Kalas, Raushan Kumar, Thais Linhares-Juvenal, David Mansell-Moullin, Adriana Lagos, Raissa Maldonado de Almeida, Federica Matteucci, Margaret Mayer, Duncan Mayes, Andrea Romero Montoya, Peter Moore, Giulia Muir, Priya Pajel, Sandra Ratiarison, Ludmila Rattis, Marcelo Rezende, David Sabogal Habedank, Moctar Sacande, Marieke Sandker, Lucio Santos, Eugenio Sartoretto, Brett Shields, Kenichi Shono, Bianca Sipala, Elaine Springgay, Lara Steil, José Vilialdo Diaz Diaz, Petteri Vuorinen, Xia Zuzhang and Andriana Patricia Yepes Quintero.
Chapter 5: Lyndall Bull, Amy Duchelle, Eric Hansen, Cecilia Luttrell, Rajat Panwar, Ben Ross and Alastair Sarre.
Reviewers
Astrid Agostini, Edmundo Barrios, Nora Berrahmouni, Cecile Berranger, Ronnie Brathwaite, Anne Brunel, Henry Burgsteden, Greta Campora, Bonnie Furman, Vincent Gitz, Boagen Gu, Jun He, Jippe Hoogeveen, Kitti Horváth, Wilson Hugo, Ana Islas Ramos, Alicja Kacprzak, Wirya Khim, Ivan Landers, Samson Lemma, Antoine Libert, Preetmoninder Lidder, Indira Joshi, Thaís Linhares-Juvenal, Andrea Lo Bianco, Mokena Makeka, Duncan Mayes, Alexandre Meybeck, Charlotte Milbank, Rajat Panwar, Souroush Parsa, Peter Pechacek, Selvaraju Ramasamy, Ewald Rametsteiner, Simon Rietbergen, James Roshetko, Soraya Sadeghi, Ilaria Sisto, Nicholas Sitko, Valentina Sommacal, Hans Thiel, Tomoyuki Uno, Tiina Vähänen, Yahor Vetlou, Tamara van’t Wout, Puyun Yang and Ekrem Yazici.
Translations were made by the Language Branch of the FAO Governing Bodies Servicing Division. Rémi d’Annunzio, Sara Casallas-Ramirez, Fidaa Haddad, Qiang Ma, Ekrem Yazici and Linbing Zhuang provided a technical review of the translated versions.
The Publications Branch in FAO’s Office of Communications provided editorial support, design and layout, and production coordination for editions in the six official languages.
