International Joint Conference of IUFRO unit 3.08 “Small-scale Forestry” and unit 6.08 “Gender and Forestry” is scheduled on 8 to 12 of September, 2013 in Fukuoka, Japan. This will be the second meeting of Small-scale Forestry in Japan followed by Kyoto 1997, and the first one of Gender and Forestry. Moreover, it is worth having the joint conference of the two groups at the first time.