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    • Ongoing Research Projects
      • Giant Panda research project: habitat, conservation and local livelihood impacts
        • Giant Panda research project [Ch]
      • Green Economy Transitions in the Least Developed Countries
        • GET-LDC at POLLEN Conference
        • GET-LDC publications and other materials
        • GET-LDC Final Seminars
      • Multilevel Governance and Carbon Management – Learning from REDD+: An Enhanced Global Comparative Analysis
      • Doctoral thesis projects
        • On-going doctoral thesis projects
      • Combining growth models and multi-date satellite imagery inventory for improved carbon prediction of tropical forest (AccuCarbon)
      • Environmental vulnerability, social resilience and multi-scale governance
    • Completed Research Projects
      • Private Agricultural Investments and Land Use Change Impact on The Adaptive Capacity of Local Communities to Climate Change in Mozambique
      • TALDA
      • WAMEC
      • MAGERMA
      • PAPFDA
      • RUBAGRIT
      • IFREMA
      • Management of trees for farmland rehabilitation
      • Improvement of traditional Acacia senegal agroforestry in the Sudan
      • Tropical forest management and rehabilitation as means of biodiversity conservation in Africa
      • Earlier reseach activities
  • Development
    • Ongoing Development Projects
      • Building Biocarbon and Rural Development in West Africa (BIODEV)
        • Biodev – List of publications
        • Biodev – List of project activities
    • Completed Development Projects
      • Biomass Monitoring and Harvest Planning System for Sustainable Supply of Renewable Energy
      • Nile Basin Community Watershed Management Project (CWMP)
      • Trees, Agroforestry and Climate Change in Dryland Africa, TACCDA
      • Using acacias in landscape management practices to mitigate land degradation, reduce poverty, and promote food security
  • Education & studies
    • Ongoing Education and Training Projects
      • Forestry Higher Education Advancement in Laos (FORHEAL)
      • Higher Education for Food security and Environmental Sustainability in Eritrea (HEFSESE)
        • Project activities
      • Partnership for Forestry Higher Education Cooperation in Mekong Region (HEI ICI PARFORM)
        • Activities for 2017
        • Activities for 2018
        • Activities for 2019
        • Activities for 2020
      • Developing Finnish Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Europe, Africa and the LAC Region (FinCEAL)
    • Completed Education and Training Projects
      • Forestry Higher Education Cooperation between Laos and Finland (FoLAFI)
      • Forest Landscape Rehabilitation in the Mekong River Basin (FORMEB)
      • Landscape Management Planning and Training for the Environment in South Sudan (LAMPTESS)
      • Doctoral training for Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources (Hawassa University), Ethiopia
      • North-South Exchange Programme in Education
      • Forest restoration and rehabilitation in Southeast Asia FORRSA
      • North-South-South Higher Education Exchange in Forest Sciences between Ethiopia, Sudan and Finland
      • Sudan Finland scholarship programme 1991-1997
  • Past Courses & Events
    • Past courses and events
      • Green economy and bioeconomy: Which way to go?
      • Mekong field Course 2015
      • Mekong field Course 2017
      • Laos Field Course 2019
    • Summer School: Managing Sustainable Forest Landscapes
      • Managing Sustainable Forest Landscapes (HSS-2015)

Completed Research Projects

2010 – Today

Private Agricultural Investments and Land Use Change Impact on The Adaptive Capacity of Local Communities to Climate Change in Mozambique, PAIMO (2013-2014)

2000 – 2010

Trees, agroforestry and livelihood improvement in dryland Africa, TALDA, (2005-2008)

Trees for the Yangtze River: Watershed management and ecosystem rehabilitation in Sichuan Province, China, WAMEC (2004-2006)

Managing the genetic resources of indigenous mahoganies in Africa : Development of multidisciplinary procedure, MAGERMA (2004-2006)

Partnership between public and private actors in forest sector development: Options for dryland Africa, PAPFDA (2004-2005)

Improving the productivity of rubber smallholdings through rubber agroforestry systems in Indonesia and Thailand, RUBAGRIT (2004-2007)

Improved forest resource management for combating desertification in Sudano-Sahelian Africa, IFREMA (2001-2004)

Management of trees for farmland rehabilitation (2000)

Improvement of traditional Acacia senegal agroforestry in the Sudan (1998-2000)

Tropical forest management and rehabilitation as means of biodiversity conservation in Africa (1997-2002)

Until 2000

Early research (before 2000)

 

 

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