Forest Connect

Reducing poverty by connecting small forest enterprises

Members

  • kay kay
  • Grant Davidson
  • Chalee Wannarak
  • Laura Schweitzer
  • Craig Embleton
  • Samuel James Simpson
  • Rory Mack
  • Tim DeJager

Where the 550+ members are from - N.B. Forest Connect partner countries include Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Lao PDR, Mozambique and Nepal


Blog Posts

Duncan Macqueen

Dialogue on investing in locally controlled forestry brings investors and rights-holder together

Posted by Duncan Macqueen on May 28, 2010 at 11:18am

Duncan Macqueen

The G3 - a new alliance on family, community and indigenous forestry that promotes locally controlled forestry

Posted by Duncan Macqueen on April 30, 2010 at 1:10pm

Betty Hu

Bamboo tiki torches

Posted by Betty Hu on April 26, 2010 at 1:50pm

Duncan Macqueen

New report highlights potential of biomass energy as an entrepreneurial possibility

Posted by Duncan Macqueen on April 7, 2010 at 9:43am

Diane Jukofsky

Forest Carbon Project First in Africa to Comply with Updated Plan Vivo Standard

Posted by Diane Jukofsky on April 2, 2010 at 3:31pm

Useful reports

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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

Rory Mack

Small Scale Timber Growers

South Africa is busy going through a phase of small grower development that is leading to a reduction in popularity of timber production through  the closure of traditional small grower corporate sup…

Started by Rory Mack Jul 19.

Joram Bogers

Increasing SFM Through Partnerships

With regard to my MSc thesis research project at Wageningen University, I am looking for information on existing supply chain partnership in the in the tropical timber trade between Congo Basin and…

Started by Joram Bogers Jun 2.

Per Kurowski

Let us find a way to stop the Amazon from smoking! 1 Reply

The climate change threat cannot be successfully fought with only governments and NGO’s and so there must be a connection with the ordinary citizens who, whether they know it or not, are all indigeno…

Tagged: smoking, rainforest, Amazon

Started by Per Kurowski. Last reply by kwame osei jnr Apr 19.

Julius NIBA FON

NTFPs and Climate Change

I hereby wish to share this opinion of how indigenous NTFPs mitigate climate change. In the western highlands of Cameroon, Raphia bushes are predominant in river valleys. Some international financial…

Started by Julius NIBA FON Mar 29.

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Small Scale Timber Growers
South Africa is busy going through a phase of small grower development that is leading to a reduction in popularity of timber production through  the closure of traditional small grower corporate support programmes and a lack of other options. Inves…
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Rory Mack Sharing and gaining insight into small scale timber producer integration into value chains
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skywalker is now a member of Forest Connect
Welcome Them!
June 30
Augusta Molnar commented on Duncan Macqueen's blog post 'New report on small forest enterprises in Ghana'
I just gave this book to an NGO in the Bas Congo and wished there was a version in French. This book is fantastic. You must read it. A national account that captures a very complex situation and a very diverse set of products, actors and value chain…
June 30
Augusta Molnar Commenting on Hidden Forestry Revealed which is excellent
June 29
 
 
 

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