Dr Sampson K Agodzo is appealing for financial support and is offering partnership for interested researchers.
An initial study has been conducted on Agroforestry Costs and Benefits in an irrigated area in Ghana on a very
thin budget. The research areas are: methods for natural resource accounting and quantifying agroforestry
benefits.
Contact:
Dr Sampson K Agodzo
Agricultural Engineering Department
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
Kumasi, Ghana
Fax: +233 51 60137
E-mail: agriceng@ust.gn.apc.org
The Center for Field Research at Earthwatch is now accepting proposals from scientists conducting fieldwork in the ecology, biology, sustainable development, and forestry. Earthwatch is a non-profit institution that sponsors scholarly field research in the biological, physical, social and cultural sciences. For information on field grant application guidelines, proposal forms, and recent grants lists see CFR's homepage at http://www.earthwatch.org/cfr/cfr/html
George Mwambu is a lecturer in Uganda currently undertaking a PhD programme at the Agricultural
University of Norway whose research topic focusses on harvesting efficiency to promote forest resource
conservation. He is looking for current literature and information on the subjects of logging, forest
management under efficient and economical harvesting regimes, with an emphasis on forest resource
conservation, for both natural and plantation forests.
Contact:
George Mwambu
Department of Forest Sciences
Agricultural University of Norway
PO Box 5044, N-1432 Ås, Norway
Tel: +47 64 94 88 80, Fax: +47 64 94 88 90
E-mail: georg.mwambu@nlh10.nlh.no
Matthias Dieter from the Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftslehre, Freising, Germany, is interested in up to date studies
and investigations which deal with the impacts of global climate change on timber markets and is looking for
different timber market models, especially those which consider climate change.
Contact:
Matthias Dieter
E-mail: md@arbwiss.forst.uni-muenchen.de
Tel: +49 8161 714630, Fax: +49 8161 714631
Asst Professor R S Prasher is working in the field of natural resource economics and policy and is presently
doing research on "Issues in Tropical Timber Trade and Deforestation" and wishes to establish contacts with
others working in the same field.
Contact:
Asst Professor R S Prasher
Department of Social Sciences
Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry
PO Nauni - 173 230, Solan (H P)
India
Tel: +91 1792 52333
Tree City - an initiative for urban green for local needs with a focus on vulnerable groups in developing
countries - is looking for partners to develop an Electronic Reference Library on Multipurpose Urban Forestry
in Developing Countries. This searchable database will contain proven solutions to common urban problems
facing the world's cities today through sound urban forestry practices. It will include an annotated bibliography,
directory of resource persons, training opportunities, project profiles, multipurpose urban trees database.
Contact:
Guido Kuchelmeister
Tree City - Urban Forestry & Arboricultural Program
Graf-Kirchberg-Strasse 26, 89257 Illertissen
Germany
Tel: +49 7303 43776, Fax: +49 7303 42114
E-mail: 100441.3577@Compuserve.com
URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/G_Kuchelmeister
Later this year, members of Accao Ambiental para O Barlavento will be driving from Mexico to Panama to
visit forested areas that governmental and nongovernmental sources consider both most valuable in terms of
flora and fauna but also most vulnerable to future damage or destruction. Before then, they would like to
formulate an itinerary based on candidate sites and welcome any proposals. Ideally, the land they seek will
border and provide important expansion of an already protected strategic area or it could serve as a vital
corridor between two such sites. It might also be something isolated yet very special in its own right.
They hope to select and purchase land and would be grateful to make contact with any interested debt-for-nature or carbon sequestration incentives, and then live and work, preferably in coordination with NGO(s) to
reforest and restore, if necessary, degraded parts of that land. A small section of the deforested land will also
be devoted to sustainable agriculture in the hope that the project may eventually become self-supporting. Any
suggestions or contacts with further information in Spanish, English, French or Portuguese, ideally via E-mail
are very welcome.
Contact:
Antionio Lambe
Accao Ambiental para O Barlavento
Apartado 373
8500 - Portimao, Portugal
Tel: +351 82 442 345
E-mail: tlambe@undp.org
Solomon Gebreyohannis is an agroforester in a watershed management planning team which proposes
different types of tree plantation techniques and agroforestry schemes in Ethiopia. He is seeking scientifically
oriented information and literature on tree plantation and agroforestry topics.
Contact:
Solomon Gebreyohannis
PO Box 631
Bahirdar, Ethiopia
CIFOR is currently exploring possibilities to collaborate with related initiatives by international and regional
organizations in the field of Secondary Forests (see article page 5).
Contact:
Cesar Sabogal
CIFOR, PO Box 6596 JKPWB
Jakarta 10065, Indonesia
Tel: +62 251 622622, Fax: +62 251 622100
E-mail: c.sabogal@cgnet.com