The XV World Forestry Congress: Perspectives from TUD Junior Researchers

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with the Korea Forest Service held the XV World Forestry Congress from May 2nd to 6th, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. In the time of climate and biodiversity crises, to discuss the future and roles of the forestry sector in achieving the sustainable development

Join us at the #IFPM4

The Chair of Tropical and International Forestry invite you all to the “4th International Forest Policy Meeting” on 27 – 29 April 2022. Several members of our institute will participate as presenters: Two of our alumni, Gordon Manu and Johanne Eckelmann, in the “Early career researchers’ competition” (Wednesday, 27.04.) Dr. Sarah Burns in Session 1

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