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World Forestry Congress

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Oscar Simanto, one of the founders of the African Forest Enterprises Connect Network (AFECONET), connect forest and farm producers across Africa (Image: IIED)

New network aims to connect locally controlled forest enterprises across Africa

News, 26 October 2015

The author with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Farmers on average receive 3 per cent of a chocolate bar price and many are dependent on a single commodity for their livelihoods (Photo: Marisa Camargo)

Zero deforestation supply chains: promoting sustainable chocolate

Insight, 16 September 2015

South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Time to dust off the vuvuzelas

Insight, 04 September 2015

Trees at Oxford Botanical Gardens. The question is not how to engage young people in forestry issues, but how to harness that engagement (Photo: Geraldine Warren/IIED)

Nurturing the next generation of foresters

Insight, 24 August 2015

A forest ranger takes measurements of a tree at Megeni Kitasha in the Rombo District in Moshi, Tanzania (Photo: FAO/Simon Maina)

IIED at the XIV World Forestry Congress

Event on 07 September 2015

The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Star spice in Vietnam's forests

Insight, 05 August 2015

A tree nursery run by Fedecovera, is the world's biggest exporter of cardamom and a cooperative with 25,000 members (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Organise to thrive

Insight, 30 June 2015

Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)

Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two

Insight, 04 February 2015

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