Bangladesh government has recently pledged to restore 0.75 million ha of degraded forestland as part of its commitment to the Bonn Challenge, however little is known about the potential challenges and opportunities involved in achieving that goal. Using secondary literature complemented by expert...

The main goal of this review was to provide an assessment of the potential of fast-growing tree species for the suitable transformation of agroforestry areas for biomass production in the Baltic Sea region. Our interest was to highlight the research on the management process of agroforestry zones...

Cocoa-based agroforests play an important role in farmer livelihood and the global environment; however, despite these facts, their low yields and tree aging put at risk their fate. This project investigated the carbon storage potential, productivity, and economics of different agroforestry...

The lives of the urban poor in the majority world are unfree: blighted by social injustice in its manifold forms, from violence and ill-health to absent economic opportunities. We explore the pursuit of freedom through migration away from the metropole to ramais (colonisation tracks) at the...

Most of the rural population of developing countries depends on forest ecosystems; consequently, there is a myriad of trade-offs that jeopardize the ability of the forest to produce goods and services. To maintain the current forest cover and offer opportunities to improve rural livelihoods, more...

These proceedings contain papers on topics about forest ecology and conservation, forest management, biodiversity and genetic conservation, forest policy and economics, forest remote sensing and gis / precision forestry, forest protection, forest soil and silviculture, social forestry, nature...

Implementing Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) policy has contributed to conserving and protecting the forests to remain relevant for future generations. This study determines stakeholders' viewpoint on the relationship between the implementation of SFM and food security in Sabah. The study was...

This paper offers a systematic approach to quantifying the socio-economic role of forests for 'forest-dependent' communities. Focusing on the island of Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania), we investigate how forest income contributes to livelihood portfolios, local inequality, and households' insurance...

Assessing the economics of small-scale farm forestry (SSFF) is associated with typical challenges. There is a large number of economically small or even very tiny although quite diverse institutional units with hardly any standards in terms of bookkeeping. At the same time, there is a multiplicity...

This project aimed to identify how commercial forestry could increase the incomes of smallholders and scale out the broader benefits of commercial forestry to local communities and industries. Reflecting the complexity of community-based commercial forestry (CBCF), the project explored the...