Meet Musse – Our new international climate protection fellow

I’m Musse Tesfaye Gebre from Ethiopia. In March 2022, I started my international climate protection fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt, hosted by the Chair of Tropical and International Forestry at the Technische Universität Dresden. My research project is entitled “Ethiopia’s ambition to restore forest landscapes as part of a Climate Resilient Green Economy and impeding

Meet Aruna Kainyande – An alumnus & new institute staff member

My name is Aruna Kainyande, and I am from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I live in Dresden, a city that has become my home away from home for the past two years. I have recently joined the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products in April 2022 as a Research Assistant in the WoodCluster Project.

Reflection on the WoodCluster Project teaching component

The WoodCluster project consists of two components: Teaching and Research, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through DAAD and DLR, respectively. While the teaching module concluded in 2021, the research module continues up to 2022. The following summarizes the major deliverables of the teaching module and reflects on the

Doctoral defense of Dr. Beatus John Temu – contribution to the WoodCluster Project Tanzania

On November 5th 2021, Dr. Beatus John Temu defended his doctoral thesis titled “Exploration of the Tanzanian forest sector contribution to national economy: Micro, meso and macro level analysis”. His doctoral thesis contributes significantly to the on-going WoodCluster project, particularly in enhancing the understanding of Tanzania’s forest and wood cluster. He sought to understand the

Alumni success story: Japhet Noah Mwambusi and his passion in silviculture

Japhet Noah Mwambusi was a DAAD scholarship holder in our MSc course “Tropical Forestry” batch of 2017-2019. He did his master’s thesis research on “Silvicultural Treatments of Woodlots of Smallholder Forest Producers and their Relation to the Timber Market in Mufindi District, Tanzania”, which contributed to the WoodCluster project. Recently in November, one part of

Successful hybrid doctoral defense of Busha Teshome on cluster analysis for forest and wood-processing industry sector development in Ethiopia

On September 29th 2021, Busha Teshome Tolera from Ethiopia successfully defended his doctoral defense. Busha conducted his research on “Cluster analysis for forest and wood-processing industry sector development in Ethiopia“, which contributed to the WoodCluster project.