FOREST AND AGRICULTURAL LAND
Since its creation, FFEM has promoted a more sustainable relationship between humans and natural resources. Our goal: to protect the biodiversity of forests and landscapes, fight desertification, and restore the climate-regulating functions of forests and agricultural land by making them a core aspect of human development.
OUR ACTION TODAY
Forests are the largest reservoir of terrestrial biodiversity. Along with non-forest land, they are a tremendous lever for regulating the climate. Deforestation for agricultural purposes is the cause of nearly one-fourth of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and of accelerated biodiversity loss. Because of the close link between forests and agricultural land, FFEM treats them together.
OUR ACTION TODAY
Forests are the largest reservoir of terrestrial biodiversity. Along with non-forest land, they are a tremendous lever for regulating the climate. Deforestation for agricultural purposes is the cause of nearly one-fourth of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and of accelerated biodiversity loss. Because of the close link between forests and agricultural land, FFEM treats them together.
Didier Simon, FFEM
Preservation, Management, Territories

- Promoting local and concerted management of territories
- Improving environmental performance
- Fighting deforestation
Promoting local and concerted management of territories
Improving environmental performance
Fighting deforestation
97
projects on forests and agricultural land financed since 1995
€129 M
committed over the past 25 yearsy year
A cross-cutting approach
Forests and agricultural lands are essential to many human activities. To preserve these environments in the long term, conservation actions must be combined with the promotion of more
sustainable agricultural and forestry production methods. With this in mind, FFEM supports cross cutting projects that target forests, biodiversity, and the climate as well as degradation of land.
In this way, we contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Do forest-management plans and FSC certification reduce deforestation in the congo basin?
To allow for the production of timber while preserving conservation values, forestry regulations in
...Apr 2019
Brochure
Brochure presenting the Avaclim project
Global warming is impacting ecosystems and biodiversity globally, but particularly so in arid region
...Feb 2021
Brochure
The FFEM and French commitments to REDD+
The mechanism called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing coun...
Dec 2011