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Forests employ approximately 42 million people worldwide, with women accounting for one quarter of the workforce, according to new research from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Thünen Institute of Forestry. Published on Tuesday, Updated methodology to quantify forest-sector employment: Global and regional estimates presents fresh estimates that help close critical data gaps in global and regional forest-sector employment between 2011 and 2022.