Forest Connect - <b>Reducing poverty by connecting small forest enterprises</b>

<b>Reducing poverty by connecting small forest enterprises</b>

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Where the 800+ members are from - N.B. Forest Connect partner countries include Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Lao PDR, Mozambique and Nepal

Blog Posts

TREE AID recruiting Director of West Africa Operations

Posted by Tony Hill on May 18, 2012 at 15:27

Our Shared Cultural Heritage is Arboreal.

Posted by Pip Howard on May 18, 2012 at 14:37

Rio+20 - come and join Forest Connect on 16th June 2012 in Rio

Posted by Duncan Macqueen on May 18, 2012 at 11:48

Forest Connect toolkit launched!

Posted by Duncan Macqueen on April 30, 2012 at 17:37 — 1 Comment

ANSAB's recent edition of tri-annual newsletter onlilne

Posted by Sudarshan Khanal on April 24, 2012 at 4:15

Useful reports

Testing Research Report on Forest Farmer Cooperatives in Longquan, Zhejiang, China for the Forest Connect Toolkit, Guidance Module 14

Forging linkages: The case of Forest Connect as a small-scale forest enterprise development network tool

Gender and Agroforestry in Africa: Are Women Participating?

Financing sustainable small-scale forestry

The bamboo production to consumption system in Cameroon

Getting to the roots - underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation

Chainsaw milling: supplier to local markets

Making local voices heard: the Three Rights Holders Group

Empowering communities through forest partnerships

Sustainable forestry: connecting local to global and vice versa

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Thanks to PROFOR for finance to develop a SMFE support toolkit

Welcome to the FOREST CONNECT networking site

Hello! Please use this site to share: news about Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) in your country, tools and tactics that have worked to improve the prospects for SMFEs, recent documents that others might find useful, and upcoming jobs, meetings or training events.

Please do upload photos (especially a profile photo so we can see you) but keep the main photos for small forest enterprise work (no personal or institutional adverts please).

There is a library of useful reports and manuals bottom left that you can access by clicking on the 'more' button at the bottom of that box. If you have any comments or queries please do contact Duncan Macqueen.

Forum or Blogs - which should you use?

Please use the Forum when you want to start a discussion (simply click the '+Start Discussion' link at the bottom of the Forum box). Please ensure that it concerns SMFEs.

Please use the Blogs when you want to announce a new report, tool, job or training opportunity or just want to share your thoughts (simply click the '+ Add a Blog Post' link at the bottom of the Blog Posts box). Blogs allow you to upload a file and preview your message before you post it.

Both options allow other members to comment. If you want to upload a document to the background database of useful reports or useful links - please send it to duncan.macqueen@iied.org.

Forum

What should be the role of NGOs? 5 Replies

I am interested to find out for my research on what you consider should be the role of international NGOs in relation to improving forest governance in developing countries. I look forward to you…Continue

Started by Gemma Salt. Last reply by María Soledad Ortiz on Thursday.

ETFRN News Call for papers

ETFRN News Call for papers:Private Business and Forest Finance: Insights, Opportunities and Good PracticesInterest from private sector businesses and financial institutions to engage more actively in…Continue

Started by Alexander Asen Apr 18.

High density teak and melina growing. 4 Replies

I´m loocking for previuos experiences in management of high density Tectona grandis and Gmelina arborea. Last week we had three thousand seedling of both species and so little space to plant there; I…Continue

Started by JOSE INES BAZAN-MOTA. Last reply by Md. Siddiqur Rahman Apr 5.

Forest Certification 7 Replies

Hello.I want to know basics of forest/wood certification. Could anyone please let me know if there is any literature available? Also, if forest/wood certification scenario with regard to India is…Continue

Started by Saurabh. Last reply by Rory Mack Apr 3.

Videos

Green Business in the Himalayas - Pioneering Market Driven Solutions to Improve Livelihoods and Conserve Biodiversity

Added by Sudarshan Khanal
Fever (English)

Added by Maria Kardashevskaya
The Forest Connect network

Added by Duncan Macqueen

Photos

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Diane Jukofsky posted a video

Helping Indigenous Communities Manage their Forests Sustainably

The Rainforest Alliance has helped indigenous communities in Peru's Madre de Dios region to adopt sustainable forestry. Those communities have improved the safety and environmental impact of their timber harvesting, while increasing their incomes…

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Tony Hill commented on Duncan Macqueen's blog post Forest Connect toolkit launched!

"Good to see this toolkit is now available in definitive version. I appreciate all the mini case studies/examples and the links for further info. Please note Elvis Tangem (elvis.tangem@treeaid.org.uk) replaced Yarri Kamara as TREE AID's…"

Friday

Tony Hill posted a blog post

TREE AID recruiting Director of West Africa Operations

TREE AID is looking to recruit a Director for our West Africa Operations to lead the development and delivery of our programme in West Africa, which currently operates in Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana and Niger. Working as a member of TREE AID’s International Senior Management Team, with responsibility for all TREE AID employees in West Africa, key objectives of the post will be to;Develop and grow the TREE AID Programme in West Africa to meet TREE AID’s overall mission and objectivesLead the…See More

Friday

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Andrew Parrucci updated their profile

Friday

Pip Howard posted a blog post

Our Shared Cultural Heritage is Arboreal.

We in the European arboricultural and forestry world are as guilty of the disenfranchisement of people with their trees as anybody else. Places where there is little interference from the ‘state’, for good intention or more often not, can still be found but are rapidly disappearing, isolated in small pockets of wooded landscape in Europe the ideals of modern sustainable forest management still exist in a pure form.As the fragility of an obsessive pro growth society is realised, it compels many…See More

Friday

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Md. Siddiqur Rahman posted a photo

Natural regeneration of cane seedlings in hill forest of Bangladesh

This seedling of Calamus guruba was found as a natural regeneration in a natural forest in Bangladesh called Twankabati (in Padua range) near Coxs Bazar. Rattan can be used in several ways in forest based industries. Thus it natural regeneration…

Friday

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Duncan Macqueen posted a blog post

Rio+20 - come and join Forest Connect on 16th June 2012 in Rio

IIED is hosting an event in Rio just prior to the formal conference of Rio+20 on 16th June 2012Locally controlled farm-forestry: A firm foundation for fair green economies?Led by: IIED, the International Family Forest Alliance, the Global Alliance for Community Forestry and the International Alliance for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests Sustainability is crucial to one planet existence. But growing populations with growing expectations are putting the squeeze on natural…See More

Friday

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Pip Howard updated their profile

Thursday

Pablo, Sonia Martel and Pip Howard joined Forest Connect

Thursday

Sonia Martel left a comment for Duncan Macqueen

"Hi Duncan, Thank you for this great iniciative, just fantastic to get people and forest together! See you around, cheers! Sonia"

Thursday

Duncan Macqueen left a comment for Sonia Martel

"Hi Sonja - welcome to the site! Duncan"

Thursday

María Soledad Ortiz replied to Gemma Salt's discussion What should be the role of NGOs?

"Hello Gemma, Thanks for the space to discuss about this issue. In Peru, national forest conservation programs have prioritized its role in creating economic incentives for forest conservation, but it is still an incomplete strategy . The success in…"

Thursday

Duncan Macqueen left a comment for Chris Buss

"hey Chris - good photo! Duncan"

Thursday

Duncan Macqueen left a comment for Liza Meza

"Hi Liza, Welcome to the site! Duncan"

Thursday

Duncan Macqueen and Angeline Gough are now friends