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Recently, a review team combining researchers from CIFOR and the University of Helsinki (including Prof. Kanninen and Nick Hogarth from VITRI), visited Sukabumi in West Java, Indonesia in order to complete the protocol and screen studies for a systematic review currently implemented as part of CIFOR’s Evidence-Based Forestry Initiative. The systematic review centres around the socioeconomic impacts of large-scale tree plantations on local communities.

Arttu Malkamäki, PhD student from VITRI and coordinator of the review, also presented the systematic review protocol and some preliminary results at UIFRO’s International and Multi-disciplinary Scientific Conference in Bogor, Indonesia. The review team also included Anne Toppinen (UH) and Romain Pirard (CIFOR); Dalia Damato (UH) and Zhou Wen (CIFOR) are also team members but where not present in Sukabumi.

Nich Hogarth also participated in a recent systematic review about the environmental and socioeconomic effects of China’s conversion of cropland to forest program

This event is organized on the occasion of a visit to Helsinki by the Sudanese ambassador to Finland, Mahgoob Mohamed Uthman (based in Stockholm).

Seminar programme:

– Prof. Markus Holopainen, Deputy Head, Department of Forest Sciences: Opening remarks
– Prof. Olavi Luukkanen: Highlights of training and research in Sudan since 1983
– Prepared comments by Ari Mikkilä (Stora Enso), and Dr Leena Kirjavainen (WIDAGRI Ltd.)
– Discussion on the ways forward

Time: Tuesday 18 October 2016 14:15-16 h
Venue: Viikki, Forestry Sciences Building (Latokartanonkaari 7), room 332

Feel free to circulate this announcement. For additional information do not hesitate to contact Emer. Prof. Olavi Luukkanen