The Amazon rainforest, a vital global ecosystem, is facing significant threats from the loss of intact forest through deforestation and degradation. This report provides an overview of recent forest changes in the Amazon, focusing on Brazil, the country with the largest portion of the Amazon....

In the African Sahel region, arable land is being increasingly threatened by the implications of climate change. Agroforestry offers opportunities to adapt to these challenges by enhancing ecological resilience and food production through intensification and/or diversification by integrating...

The role of permanent carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere is currently the subject of intensive discussion within the context of developing a new EU emis­sions reduction target for 2040 and a German long-term strategy on negative emissions. At the same time, a short-term strategy...

Drought, heat and bark-beetle infestations in the years 2018 till 2022 have had severe impacts on German forests. With the results of the National Forest Inventory 2022 being available since late 2023, new projections of possible future development of carbon stocks in forests and the Harvested...

This brochure highlights solutions for sustainable and circular water management. It features examples of innovative projects that tackle water-related challenges by efficiently saving, recycling, and reusing water sources for on-farm use, through innovation, collaboration and knowledge exchange.

This brochure highlights solutions for sustainable and circular water management. It features examples of innovative projects that tackle water-related challenges by efficiently saving, recycling, and reusing water sources for on-farm use, through innovation, collaboration and knowledge exchange.

SUPERB tackles a broad range of ecosystem restoration challenges and aims to restore thousands of hectares of forest landscape across Europe. Together with key local stakeholders, the project demonstrates and tests successful forest restoration approaches at 12 large-scale demonstration sites...

Forest resources play a strategic role within EU policies on climate, energy, environment and bioeconomy. For this reason, since 2012, the JRC has been developing in-house modelling capacities to assess the recent and future development of European forests' biomass and carbon stocks using the...

The handbook is primarily aimed at national experts engaged in the production of European forest accounts. This edition reflects the latest European legal requirements. The handbook provides a framework and practical recommendations for establishing European forest accounts. It offers harmonised...

This document presents the input data, methodology and a preliminary assessment of the first version of the Global Forest Cover map for year 2020 at 10m spatial resolution (GFC 2020, version 1, dated 07 December 2023). GFC 2020 builds on several global data sets and provides a harmonized,...

This introduction sketches out what relevance wood and wood products have had in Europe's industrial societies. It also summarizes some peculiarities of the wood-based businesses caused by both the materiality of wood and the ecologies of forests. Most importantly, the introduction...

The article highlights the changing role of the merchant community of Danzig after the establishment of the Second Republic of Poland and the Free City of Danzig. The research question is both economic and political-institutional. It tries to understand how the merchants' community reacted to a...

This introduction sketches out what relevance wood and wood products have had in Europe's industrial societies. It also summarizes some peculiarities of the wood-based businesses caused by both the materiality of wood and the ecologies of forests. Most importantly, the introduction...

By considering the expansion of the timber trade in southeast Europe as a resource frontier, this article explores the relationships between the transformation of the technical and material conditions of forest exploitation and the development of its labour force. Previous studies have...

This article examines the evolution of an industrialized and capital-driven timber extraction in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Habsburg governance from 1878-1914 and its social and ecological effects on the region. It emphasizes the role of both imperial policy-making and local socio-ecological...

The Science-Policy Programme published a new report on "International Forests Governance: A critical review of trends, drawbacks, and new approaches". This new assessment revisits the questions examined in the 2010 GFEP report on the International Forest Regime and examines the main aspects of...

Recently, the concerns about climate change have heightened the need for effective methods for estimating and mapping Biomass and Carbon stock at local, national, continental, and global scales. Reliable Biomass and Carbon stock quantification and spatialization is a challenge, especially in...

Die Wälder Madagaskars sind für ihre hohe biologische Vielfalt bekannt und beherbergen zahlreiche endemische Pflanzen- und Tierarten. Diese Ökosysteme sind jedoch stark durch menschliche Aktivitäten bedroht, die zu Abholzung und Walddegradierung führen. Wirksame Naturschutzmaßnahmen...

In the Sahel region, agroforestry potentially increases crop yields, alongside restoring and retaining soils. Nonetheless, little is known about how diverse agroforestry systems perform across actual agricultural systems of smallholders in the region. We therefore investigate how smallholders'...

Das Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Regionen und Wasserwirtschaft ist unmittelbar für 13 höhere und mittlere Bildungs- und Forschungseinrichtungen in Österreich verantwortlich, und zwar für eine Fachschule, fünf Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalten, sechs Höhere...

Every four years, the National Poplar Commissions reports on the progress of the International Poplar Commission IPC, one of the oldest, firmly established organizations of the FAO (Organization for Food and Agriculture of the United Nations). The reports will be collected and published for the...

The fintech segment is currently one of the most rapidly growing industries, attracting numerous investors who anticipate substantial returns in the future. Notably, not only individual retail investors but also mutual fund agencies are actively engaged in predicting stock prices within this...