African Participation in International Forest Processes

One objective of the Sustainable Forest Management in Africa (SFM) project has been to identify urgent issues and concerns for Africa to give priority to in international forest processes (IFPs), and to promote an increased African participation in these, based on analyses of previous experiences and lessons learnt.Thus, one of the first studies to be commissioned by the project was entitled “Observations on participation by Africa in international forest processes”.

» The Forest-Livestock Interface

About 40 million people in the world, almost half of them African pastoralists, depend almost entirely on livestock for their livelihoods. Animal husbandry on rangelands produces about 23 % of the world cattle meat, with 13 % of this production...

» Community Based Forest Management in Africa

Community-based forest management (CBFM) was initially defined as “any situation, which intimately involves local people in a forestry activity”. Different countries and programmes have continued to develop and adapt this broad definition to fit...

» Forestry in Sub-Saharan Africa - Prospects & Challenges

Africa is characterised by extremely diverse ecological conditions, ranging from humid forests to deserts and from montane temperate forests to coastal mangrove swamps. The total forest, including woodlands, cover in Africa is estimated at 650...

» Wood Based Industries in Sub-Saharan Africa

The study on which this policy brief is based attempted to examine the wood based industry for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, due to the lack of sufficient and reliable data on the wood processing industries in many SSA countries,...

» Forestry Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

Until recently, formal forestry practice in many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has focussed almost exclusively on tree and forest resources for industry. This focus also shaped the development of forestry research to service the needs of the...

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