The state of the world's forests 2024

Tables, Figures and Boxes

TABLES

1 Top ten countries for average annual net gain in forest area, 2010–2020

2 Roundwood production, by major use, 2022

3 The FAO innovation typology

4 Five forms of capital, the lack of which comprises a barrier to the uptake of innovative technologies by the forest sector in the Asia-Pacific region


FIGURES

1 Share of global forest product exports, by product category, 2022

2 World roundwood production, comprising industrial roundwood and woodfuel, 1961–2022

3 Trends in production volume of five non-wood forest products, 2000–2022

4 Global exports of pine nuts and forest mushrooms and truffles, 2022

5 Projections for global roundwood demand for 2030 and 2050

6 Resource-use efficiency for industrial roundwood, 1961–2022

7 A schematic of the Participatory Informed Landscape Approach

8 Deforestation in the Amazon–Cerrado Region affecting vapour pressure deficit and mean temperature in landscapes with differing levels of agricultural intensification, over a calendar year

9 Types and sources of information that feed into a given legal country profile in the Legal Hub

10 Number of visits to the Legal Hub in 2021, 2022 and 2023


BOXES

1 Forestry and agrifood systems transformation

2 The forest sector

3 Enhancing processes for data collection and dissemination for the Global Forest Resources Assessment

4 Value-adding to increase the economic benefits of forests

5 Innovation ecosystems

6 Innovation driving progress in measurement, reporting and verification

7 Remote sensing and artificial intelligence

8 Innovative wood and non-wood forest products that could contribute to the bioeconomy

9 Technological innovation in value chains

10 The example of Katerra

11 Using innovative partnership approaches to help drive progress in the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration


CASE STUDIES

1 Fostering multistakeholder governance mechanisms to scale up integrated sustainable landscape management

2 Using new data on the role of forests in agricultural productivity to finance conservation on an agricultural frontier

3 Harnessing the power of partnership and technical innovation to reduce commodity-driven forest loss

4 Building new tools and techniques into existing community forest management models to enhance forest outcomes

5 Technical innovation, capacity building and financing to support Indigenous Peoples as forest custodians

6 Integrating science, technology and traditional knowledge to improve fire management decision-making

7 Developing a new national policy and strengthening the enabling environment to scale up agroforestry

8 Integrating the socioeconomic objectives and nutritional needs of local communities into restoration to combat desertification

9 Developing the Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring platform through collaboration and data interoperability

10 Enhancing the resilience of traditional water taro gardens by incorporating new technologies, practices and plant varieties

11 Improving the local governance of forest resources to deliver benefits for agriculture and forest restoration

12 Linking a 20-year-long agroforestry initiative with carbon trading to foster sustainable practices

13 Delivering collateral-free microfinance to small forest businesses through the power of collective organizations

14 The Legal Hub: using new diagnostic tools and methodologies to catalyse legal-reform processes for sustainable wildlife management

15 Harnessing digital technologies to improve the efficiency of timber-tracking and promote sustainable supply chains

16 Improving connectivity along timber supply chains to reduce waste and increase the viability of sustainable forest management

17 Applying new wood-processing technologies to promote a bioeconomy and enhance earthquake resilience

18 Enabling farmer-led innovation in sustainable forest and agricultural production through Farmer Field Schools

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