International IUFRO Conference: Forest Governance, Policy, Economics, and beyond
9-11 Oct 2025
Beijing, China
Mongabay: What have we learned from 15 years of REDD+ policy research? (analysis)
This article presents an analysis of more than a decade of comparative research in REDD+
Seminar: The Political Frontier: Bridging Political Economy & Political Ecology
24 January 2025 – Land Use Innovation International Seminar at RIHN, Japan
Interview series: Aristide Chacgom (Green Development Advocates)
Since 2009, Green Development Advocates (GDA) has been advocating for local community and indigenous people’s rights in Southwest Cameroon, where the development of large-scale plantations as well as a conservation area have created various environmental and socio-economic pressures on these communities. During the project’s annual meeting in January 2023, we interviewed GDA’s coordinator, Aristide Chacgom. How did you get involved in GDA? I am an environmental lawyer and joined GDA after graduating from school, and I have been coordinating the activities in GDA since 2015…so that means it has been more than six years! What does GDA do? Beside advocacy work for local communities, we support them by introducing them …
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Interview Series: Moira Moeliono (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Dr. Moeliono is a Senior Associate at CIFOR-ICRAF, and is based in Bogor, Indonesia. She first started working in North and East Kalimantan twenty years ago, conducting research with local communities in forest-agriculture frontiers.
Paper: Data and information in a political forest: The case of REDD+
Brockhaus, M., De Sy, V., Di Gregorio, M., Herold, M., Wong, G. Y., Ochieng, R., Angelsen, A. (2024). Data and information in a political forest: The case of REDD+. Forest Policy and Economics.
On the need for critical and decolonial research – Reflections from the 5th International Forest Policy Meeting
After attending IFPM5, Research Associate Ayami Kan reflects on the motivations and purposes for critical and decolonial research.
IUFRO Report: International Forests Governance: A critical review of trends, drawbacks, and new approaches
Kleinschmit, D., Wildburger, C., Grima, N., and Fisher, B. (eds.), 2024.
International Forest Governance: A Critical Review of Trends, Drawbacks, and New Approaches.
IUFRO World Series Volume 43. Vienna. 164p.
Presentation: Fatal attraction to win-win-win? Contestations in the media on Nature Conservation Agreement in Sabah
11 April 2024 – 5th International Forest Policy Meeting, Finland
Seminar: Methods for Examining Local Voices and Discourses Around Forest and Land Change in Sabah
23 January 2024 – Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia