CIFOR Increases its focus on Africa
Following increasing international attention to help Africa achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals, CIFOR will dedicate 40 percent of its research expenditure to sub-Saharan Africa. more

Africa's Dry Forests
Mention “Africa” and “forests” in the same breath and many of us conjure up the clichéd Hollywood image of a misty, steaming jungle crammed with exotic shrubs and giant trees. more

Baobabs for Burkina Faso
Crispen Marunda and Henri-Noël Bouda from CIFOR’s Dry Forest Project in Africa see a bright future for baobab trees in Burkina Faso. more 

Malawi’s Community Forests - Turning Green into Gold
Giving villagers greater authority in managing their forests can have significant health benefits, according to CIFOR research in Malawi. more

Honey Production in Zambia
Zambia's woodlands resonate with two kinds of buzz. First is the hum from the millions of bees gathering nectar from the surrounding dry forests. Second is the buzz of excitement among local villagers who see honey production as a potential source of livelihood.  more

CIFOR’s Key Research Areas in Africa
Adaptive Management of Multi–stakeholder Landscapes: CIFOR conducts action-oriented research to promote inclusive and adaptive approaches to forest management decision-making to encourage sustainable forest use and better balance competing interests of different stakeholders. more

Wood carvers: Waste not, want not
In the developed world, where ‘throw-away culture’ has led to an abundance of waste, entirely new words and job designations have come into being. ‘Dumps’ have become ‘transfer stations’ or ‘recycling centres’ and the people who run them are called ‘waste engineers’. more

CIFOR's Malinau Research Forest rich in wild gingers
The documentation of 53 ginger species in CIFOR’s Malinau Research Forest in East Kalimantan once again demonstrates the importance of the World’s tropical rainforests for global biodiversity. This result is comparable to the most species rich sites so far known in Borneo, constituting around 16 percent of the island’s estimated total number of native gingers. more

Asia - Pacific's Forests Vital To Australia
This year's annual Crawford Fund event provided a fertile meeting ground for Australian and international forest experts. Attended by key politicians, policy makers, researchers, students and the media, Crawford’s conference on “Forests, Wood and Livelihoods” highlighted the role of forestry research in improving the lives of millions of the world’s poor. The conference also underlined the importance of the Asia-Pacific’s forests to Australia’s national interest. more

Influencing policy? Brazil’s forest concession law
A proposed new law introducing a forest concession system in Brazil has drawn a lot of national and international attention. CIFOR has accompanied the political process and at different stages provided inputs to the proposal. more

Going Nuts over Bolivia's Brazil nut Dilemma
The global economy is difficult to predict. Volatile markets can mean overnight riches for a lucky few and misfortune for others. The forest dwellers of Pando, Bolivia’s most forested region, fall into both categories. more

Book Reviews. more

Staff Update. more

CIFOR Board of Trustees. more