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Colombia has a total of 59.5 million hectares of natural forest, making up 52.1 percent of the country’s territory. It is one of the countries with the greatest natural forest cover in Latin America, along with a high diversity of flora and fauna...

San Antonio de Calarma Pijao Indigenous Reservation (@FAO) Since 2018, Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has been promoting community forestry (CF) as an approach to sustainable forest management, and significant progress...

English below El Proyecto El Programa ONU Medio Ambiente se encuentra trabajando junto con el Gobierno de Honduras en el diseño del Marco Nacional de Salvaguardas para Proyectos y Programas de Cambio Climático de Honduras (MNSCC), una experiencia...

At the UN Climate Conference happening in Glasgow (COP26), Honduras and Peru will be launching platforms that provide information on how safeguards are being addressed or respected throughout the implementation of climate change activities. The UN...

As highlighted by the UN Decade of Family Farming, forests are essential for food security, livelihoods and natural resource management for smallholder farmers and family farmers worldwide. Rural populations source much of their diets from forests...

Through its national REDD+ strategy, Colombia has been working to protect its forest resources since 2018. The country’s Forest Management and Deforestation Control Strategy “Bosques territorios de Vida” (Forests - territories of life)is an important...

The UN Environment Programme is working with the Government of Honduras to design a National Safeguards Framework for Climate Change Projects and Programmes, a pioneering experience in the region. This is part of a project funded by the Green Climate...

Forestry and agroforestry systems are not gender neutral. It has been widely documented that women, for a number of cultural, socio-economic and institutional reasons, are often disadvantaged in terms of access and control over forest resources and...