Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – Forestry
Forestry contributes significantly to the achievement of FAO's mission to "help build a food-secure world for present and future generations," and to "assist Member Nations in: reducing food insecurity and rural poverty; ensuring an enabling policy and regulatory framework for food and agriculture, fisheries and forestry; securing sustainable increases in the supply and availability of food; conserving and enhancing the natural resource base; and generating knowledge of food and agriculture, fisheries and forestry".

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005)
Since 1946, FAO regularly monitors the world's forests through Global Forest Resources Assessments. The mandate to carry out these assessments stems both from the basic statutes of FAO and the Committee on Forestry (COFO).

Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is an international work program designed to meet the needs of decision makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes.

United Nations Forum on Forests
An intergovernmental policy forum to promote "...the management, conservation and and sustainable development of all types of forests and strengthen longterm political commitment to this end..."

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The UNEP-WCMC evaluates and highlights the many values of biodiversity and puts authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making.

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
ICRAF aims to achieve an 'agroforestry transformation' in the developing world resulting in a massive increase in the use of working trees on working landscapes by smallholder rural households that helps ensure security in food, nutrition, income, health, shelter and energy and a regenerated environment.

Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations.

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
As environmental issues have become more complex and more international, the new generation of environmental leaders will increasingly need professional training in environmental science, management, and policy.