Only a few places remain for Wageninen University’s course on “Governance of landscapes, forests and people”, held in Indonesia on 4-15 April 2016. Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. The course challenges forest and nature management professionals to adopt an integrative perspective, to […]

The Evidence-Based Forestry initiative invites researchers and practitioners to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) for new systematic reviews and maps on critical areas for forestry policy and practice. Systematic reviews use transparent and pre-defined procedures to find, evaluate and synthesize the results of pre-existing research, ensuring that reviews can be updated as new relevant information emerges, and minimizing biases that may be present in existing literature reviews.

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is pleased to be a founding partner of the International Partnership for Blue Carbon, announced by the Australian Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on 6 December. “It is an enormous opportunity, as has been recognized here, for reducing emissions, […]

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has welcomed the Leaders’ Statement on Forests and Climate Change, a joint statement by 17 forest and donor countries released in Paris on 30 November, alongside the opening of the UN climate change conference.

Scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) shared the latest findings of a global study of benefit sharing in REDD+ at a workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam yesterday. Convened by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the workshop brought together a variety of Vietnamese and international stakeholders to discuss lessons […]

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are pleased to announce master’s degree opportunities for 20 highly qualified Indonesian candidates to study forestry conservation, natural resources management and related disciplines in the United States. Highly qualified candidates are invited to apply now for admission in September 2016. […]

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Research, Development and Innovation Agency (FORDA) of the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry celebrated a five-year communications partnership last Wednesday. CIFOR’s Director of Communications and External Relations, John Colmey, officially transferred the management of REDD-Indonesia.org to FORDA Director General, Henry Bastaman, during the International Conference of […]

The gender lens is increasingly recognized as vital to modern research—particularly forestry—as more scientific work incorporates a gender approach. Now, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released a new collection highlighting the organization’s gender research since 2013. From governance and dry forests to value chains and polygynous marriages (those between one man and two or more […]