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FORESTRY MANAGERS...

FMF heips local communities manage their own forests sustainably for range of products, building on local skills and with fair financial reward for well-managed forests.

Contact: Nicola Baird, Forest Management Foundation, Surrey, United Kingdom

AND FORESTRY EDITORS

CIFOR is planning a support programme to improve the standard of forestry publications produced in developing countries. The first activity will be training for editors.

Send copy of the publication you edit to: Francis Ng, CIFOR, Indonesia

CONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER

Well done Kwame Aidoo, B&D’s correspondent in Ghana, who has received a Foundation Roi Baudouin Award from the IFS Scientific Grants Committee, Sweden for the high scientific quality of his final IFS Research Report.

RESURGENCE IN AFRICA

A new office of the Third World Network (until now based in Malaysia) has recently opened in Ghana. Intentions are to publish an African edition of Resurgence and to focus on the relationship between Europe and Africa.

GRANTS

Africa 2000 provides small grants for projects (in 12 African countries) that are environmentally-friendly and developmentally-sound.

Further information: Africa 2000, New York , USA

PEGONE

This is a Newsletter on Meliponiculture and Stingless Bee Research which will be of great interest to all concerned with these bees.

Contact: Koos Biesmeijer, Institute of Comp. Physiology, Dept of Social Insects, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

WEAVING THE WORLD

The opening day of the World Conference on Women, September 1995 in Beijing, China, will witness the joining together of thousands of pieces of woven material to form 20 km ribbon.

All women are invited to contribute. Pieces should be metre wide, any length, made from any fibre and must be hand-made.

Register with: Khemara, “Women weaving the World Together”, Cambodia

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), one of 16 International centres of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1993. It is located in Bogor, Indonesia and has research programmes in all three tropical regions.

CIFOR now seeks to recruit outstanding scientists to lead research programmes on the social, political and economic dimensions of forest conservation and management. Candidates should have the ability to work in multi-cultural and interdisciplinary environments and strong desire to collaborate with colleagues in tropical country research systems. Special emphasis is being given to building a research team in the following fields:

sustainable harvesting and marketing of non-timber forest products; livelihoods of people living in and near forests;

macroeconomic and sectoral policies including those outside the forestry sector, and their impacts on rural poverty, economic growth and incentives for forest management and deforestation;

valuation and accounting of forest goods and services; the process of forest policy change, reform and adoption.

Candidates should posses PhD in relevant field.

CIFOR, JAKARTA INDONE, INDONESIA