The 2024 edition of the State of the World’s Forests report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) focuses on Forest-Sector Innovations Towards a More Sustainable Future, highlighting the barriers to, and opportunities for, innovation in the forestry sector to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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This edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) provides highlights on the state of the world’s forests and explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers.
The report highlights eighteen case studies from around the world to provide a glimpse at the wide range of technological, social, policy, institutional and financial forest-sector innovations – and combinations of these – being tested and implemented in real-world conditions.
Innovation is essential for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals and is an important accelerator for the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems. But innovation does not arise in a vacuum, it requires:
- Enabling policies
- Strong, transformative partnerships
- Investment
- An inclusive culture that is open to and encouraging of new ideas
- And a willingness to take calculated risks.
SOFO 2024 identifies barriers to, and enablers of, innovation and enumerates five actions for empowering people to apply their creativity in the forest sector to solve problems and scale up positive impacts.
