Forests and Forest-based Products for a Greener Future
Land tenure, forest use conflicts and benefit sharing arrangements are key issues to be addressed in African forest policy. State-of-the-art knowledge on these issues across Sub-Saharan Africa will assist in formulation and implementation of appropriate policies.
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The XIV World Forestry Congress, hosted by the Republic of South Africa, will bring together the global forestry community to review and analyse the key issues and to share ways of addressing them.
SAF is seeking Associate Editors for Forest Science (looking for international professionals – ideally from Latin America, Asia, and Africa). Interested individuals can apply by sending a CV to Matt Walls (wallsm@safnet.org).
Gregory Award is a scholarship which helps bring students and young professionals from outside the US and Canada to the SAF Convention. The application is attached.
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Improved governance of natural resources is crucial for building climate resilient livelihoods and economies in Africa’s drylands. This paper looks at why the authority and capacity of customary
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AFF would like to recruit the following experts as consultants
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Theme:
The Contribution of Forests to Ghana’s Economic Development
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The Forestry Research Institute of Ghana of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-FORIG) in conjunction with the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology and Innovation (MESTI) is organizing a colloquium on research and development on bamboo resources of Ghana.
Call for expression of interest in IFS Collaborative Research Grants 2014
Focusing on Biodiversity
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GLOBAL FOREST WATCH ANNOUNCES NEW SMALL GRANTS FUND
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Download the full document. Ghana Forest and Wildlife Policy 2012.
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
THEME:
The Contribution of Forests to Ghana’s Economic Development
OBJECTIVE
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5 day Intensive Programme on Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategy and Management
The Mastercard Foundation, which is based in Canada, is funding full scholarships for students from Africa to attend the University of British Columbia, either as undergraduates or to enroll in professional Master’s programs.
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Assessing differences in competitive effects among tree species in central British Columbia, Canada.
Research Highlights: We investigated the competitive interactions among three tree species (interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco), interior spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss × Picea engelmannii Engelm.), and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. Ex Loud. var. latifolia Englem.)) in multi-aged stands in central British Columbia, Canada. Background and Objectives: Understanding competitive interactions among tree species in mixed-species stands is fundamental to supporting silvicultural decision-making in such stands.
This study sought to gain insight into the impact of thinning treatments on stand structure dynamics in uneven-aged interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) dominated stands in central British Columbia (BC), Canada. We applied the Gini coefficient (GC) and the growth dominance coefficient (GDc) to determine how size inequality and growth dominance changed through time in both pre-commercially thinned (PCT) and unthinned stands across a moisture gradient.
Understanding the spatial patterns of trees and their interactions can reveal the ecological processes driving forest stand structure and stand development over time. We assessed temporal changes in tree spatial patterns in uneven-aged interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) dominated stands in central British Columbia, Canada. Data were available on 24 plots in three blocks over 21 years, 18 of which had received pre-commercial thinning (PCT) treatments of varying intensity.
We assessed the impacts of three approaches to thinning from below with varying spatial patterns on several stand and individual tree variables for interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco), interior spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss × Picea engelmannii Engelm.), and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. Ex Loud. var. latifolia Englem.) in central British Columbia, Canada.
Promoting the consumption of forest plant foods is a sustainable way of ensuring good nutrition and food security. This study assessed traditional knowledge on and use of forest plant foods in three administrative districts of Ghana and evaluated their potentials for domestication and processing. A total of 606 households were randomly selected and interviewed using enumerator-administered questionnaires.
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