Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is an approach for achieving long-lasting socioeconomic and environmental benefits through balancing a set of practices and outcomes—from conservation to sustainable food production and climate change mitigation—across a landscape.

In practice, FLR employs different types of land management and restoration approaches to restore landscape functions, enable sustainable use of land and forest resources, and to protect and enhance existing forest areas for biodiversity conservation.

Achieving the “right” balance of land uses in a landscape involves a process of collective decision making, implementation, and adaptive management by stakeholder groups that live and work within a particular landscape or region and are focused on both short- and long-term outcomes.

There are many paths toward FLR, blending a variety of approaches to achieve balanced outcomes and multiple benefits for stakeholders.