News
ETFRN News 47/48: Forests and the Millenium Development Goals
The newsletter can be read online or downloaded as PDF.
Millenium Development Goals and forests topic page
Together with Commission for Development Studies of the Austrian Academy of Scienceswe have set up a topic page on this theme.
Recently published on this theme is the North-South Policy Brief 2005-6: "The Role of Forests in Poverty Alleviation: Dealing with Multiple Millennium Development Goals", by Wageningen UR.
ETFRN NEWS 45/46: Forests, Water and Livelihoods
Forest and water issues have hit the news headlines over the past months. “Down with Trees” became one of the slogans after the release of the DFID report “From the Mountain to the Tap” and the FAO/CIFOR publication “Forests and Floods”.
The balance of public perceptions is swinging back and forth – from exaggerated expectations of what trees and reforestation can achieve we may go to the other extreme of ignoring the positive values of maintaining forested landscapes. Beyond the probably necessary shock effect of ‘debunking myths’, we get valid concerns over not throwing away baby trees with the bathwater. In this newsletter the different positions in this public debate are reflected.
Security, Development and Forest Conflict
The forum on Security, Development, and Forest Conflict was hosted by the International Crisis Group and Fiona Hall MEP in Brussels on 8 and 9 February 2006.
The forum is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in partnership with the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN), and ARD, Inc.
International Forest Policy topic page
The GTZ-IWP (International Forest Policy) project and ETFRN have jointly set up a topic page on international forest policy. On this page you will find links to GTZ-IWP background information and publications and ETFRN resources like European capability, the ETFRN News on National Forest Programmes, links to internet resources, training and events. With this topic page GTZ-IWP and ETFRN hope to provide a single point of access for resources on this subject.
Our news from other organisations page features recent news and publications on tropical forests and related subjects. At this moment, you can find news from ELDIS and EUFORIC on this page.
Publications & reports
'Prunings' from the DFID Forest Research Programme are a compilation of one sheet human interest stories or little prunings taken from the project outputs. You can download the 2005, 2004 and 2003 versions here with permission from DFID.
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European Commission DG RESEARCH meeting on forest research for development Brussels 20 – 21 January 2005
Presentations and reports
FORNESSA & IUFRO-SPDC Initiative on "Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands in Sub-Saharan Africa" synthesis report
Download the synthesis report
This scientific synthesis document is the result of more than two years of thematic networking activities among forest scientists on the issue of rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative aims at demonstrating the added value of scientific output that can be achieved through enhanced collaboration and information sharing among scientists working in different countries and environments.
ETFRN Series No. 3: Cultivating (in) Tropical Forests? The evolution and sustainability of systems of management between extractivism and plantations can be downloaded as PDF file (421 kb). These are the proceedings of a workshop held for 28 June – 1 July 2000 in Kræmmervika, Lofoten, Norway, organised by the Norwegian National Focal Point of ETFRN.
ETFRN Series No. 1: Forestry, forest users and research: new ways of learning, edited by Anna Lawrence, can be downloaded as PDF file (2.6 Mb!). It can also be downloaded chapter by chapter. The publication is based on the workshop entitled "Learning from Resource Users - a Paradigm Shift in Tropical Forestry" which was held 28-29 April 2000 in Vienna, Austria and organised by the Austrian National Focal Point of ETFRN.
