Mette L. Wilkie is Director of the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and co-lead of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).

Forest Restoration: A Path to Recovery and Well-Being

Rainforest view, 23 July 2019. Kanenori from Pixabay
Healthy forests mean healthy people. Children cross a river at Altavas, Aklan, the Philippines. The water impounding project is part of a larger FAO effort to improve food and nutrition security in Western Visayas. 19 February 2021. ©FAO/Jake Salvador

The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration provides an opportunity to galvanize support for the restoration of degraded forest landscapes on a massive scale, thereby increasing ecological resilience and productivity, and contributing to many of the SDGs.