NEXtra Kick-off

Preeyaphat and Lwin, we are doctoral researchers from the Insititute of International Forestry and Forest Products. We are also doctoral researchers in the first court of the NEXtra programme. The United Nations University-FLORES, Technische Universität Dresden, and Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) have formed a remarkable partnership known as NExtra, the

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.

Welcoming Shambhu – a doctoral candidate from Nepal

Namaste! My name is Shambhu Charmakar, a DAAD doctoral candidate under the Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the TU-Dresden. I joined the Chair last December 2020. My doctoral project with the title “Reshaping community forestry: analysis of institutional interplay and power dynamics in Nepal” seeks to explore the interplay

Meet Pablo Urbina – Our Nicaraguan international climate protection fellow

Hello everyone, my name is Pablo Urbina Aviles, and I am a Nicaraguan living in Dresden since January 2020, the year of the infamous COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2021, I started my international climate protection fellowship doing research, alongside Professor Jürgen Pretzsch, called: Participatory Guarantee Systems: Agroecological Certification to Enhance Small-Scale Family Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity