European Tropical Forest Research Network

The following ETFRN workshops will be held or have been held. Usually on-line discussions are organised shortly before or after the workshop. If you would like to be alerted when discussions are activated, kindly send a message to the ETFRN Coordination Unit at etfrn@etfrn.org, indicating which discussion you would like to join. See the conference calendar for future events both from ETFRN as well as others.

If you would like to organise an ETFRN workshop please read: "Criteria and Support for Workshops".

Globalisation, localisation and tropical forest management in the 21st century
22-23 October 2003
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Organised by the Amsterdam Research Institute for Global Issue and Development Studies (AGIDS)

Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Sub-Saharan Africa
E-discussion 17 March - 25 April and workshop 30 June - 4 July, 2003
Hyytiälä, Finland
E-discussion and workshop organised by VITRI, IUFRO-SPDC and ETFRN

Innovative Financing mechanisms for conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests
20-21 March 2002
The Hague, the Netherlands
Organised byTropenbos International in close collaboration with ETFRN

Participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity
7 - 25 January 2002
Internet workshop and policy seminar convened by the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Cultivating (in) tropical forests "The evolution and sustainibility of intermediate systems between extractivism and plantations"
June 28 to July 1, 2000
Lofoten, Norway
Organised by the Norwegian National Focal Point of ETFRN

Developing Needs-based Inventory Methods for NTFP: application and development of current research to identify practical solutions for developing countries
May 4-5, 2000
Rome, Italy
In collaboration with FAO, funded by the Forest Research Programme (FRP) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Learning from Resource Users - a Paradigm Shift in Tropical Forestry?
April 28-29, 2000
Vienna, Austria
Organised by the Austrian National Focal Point of ETFRN
ETFRN Series No. 1: Forestry, forest users and research: new ways of learning, edited by Anna Lawrence, can be downloaded complete as PDF file (2.6 Mb!), or chapter by chapter. The publication is based on the workshop.

Constraints of certification to small businesses, with particular relevance to developing countries
September 30,1999
Hamburg, Germany
Funded by the Forestry Research Programme (FRP) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID)