Forest restoration requires smallholders and their access to safe and fair financing

Read about Marcel Starfinger’s experiences from his field work in Thailand on the RECOFTC webpage here.

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.

Adventure in Tanzania: Fieldwork amid the pandemic

Mambo (what’s up in Swahili)! I’m Kendisha, a doctoral student from Indonesia under the WoodCluster project. This year, amid the pandemic, I was finally able to undertake fieldwork in Tanzania, from March 8th (which is women’s day) until June 5th (environment day). My topic is about the potential role of forest farmers’ organizations in linking

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

Successful doctoral defense of La Thi Tham on Acacia hybrid value chains in Vietnam

On Monday, April 19th 2021, La Thi Tham successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “A transition towards higher value uses of natural-resource based products: Case study of value chains and impacts on rural livelihoods of Acacia hybrid timber in Central Vietnam”. With Summa Cum Laude, Tham has performed an outstanding defense and overall research work!

“There is nothing small about forest smallholders” – Panel discussion at the 3rd International Forest Policy Meeting

How do institutions affect small-scale forestry at multiple levels? How does the institutional change process drive small-scale forest use/forest management? What could be the future orientations on organizational governance on small-scale forestry? Those are the overarching questions we strived to address during a panel discussion at the online 3rd International Forest Policy Meeting (IFPM3), hosted