Impact Stories
January 30, 2026
30/01/2026 With only 29 days left for countries to submit their Seventh National Reports under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), attention is shifting from setting […]
January 23, 2026
From Local Forest Monitoring to Digital Innovation in Agrifood Systems: Open Foris in Action In Uganda, forest monitoring has moved from paper-based field notes to cloud-enabled digital […]
November 25, 2025
25/11/2025 Cocoa is a vital source of income for millions of smallholder farmers across the globe and Cameroon — one of the world’s top three cocoa-producing […]
November 17, 2025
17/11/2025 More than 70 participants from research institutions, academia, and field projects joined the Open Foris Arena User Meeting 2025 on November 12th, an interactive webinar highlighting the latest […]
November 13, 2025
This article was originally published here. Fifteen years ago, a Finnish-funded development project began reshaping how the world monitors its forests. Today, that initiative has evolved […]
November 6, 2025
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping forestry—from remote data collection to strategic decision-making. At Finland’s National Forest Days 2025, experts highlighted how digital tools have revolutionised forest […]
October 28, 2025
Kosovo has taken an important step in advancing its forest monitoring by launching the third cycle (2024–2025) of the National Forest Inventory (NFI). Building on earlier inventories conducted in 2002 and 2012, this […]
October 15, 2025
Using Open Foris solutions for informed decisions. FAO has launched a new publication, A Global Methodology for the Assessment of Direct Drivers Associated with Deforestation and Degradation, […]
October 7, 2025
07/10/2025, Mexico Mexico is reinforcing its forest monitoring capacities – a vital step for the nearly 12 million people, including 3.6 million Indigenous Peoples, who depend […]
September 29, 2025
Plans for Tropical Forest Forever Facility presented on sidelines of UN General Assembly. New York – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is […]