European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) Newsletter (Number 8)

European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) Newsletter Number 8 Code: NL94025 Size of Files: Text: 67K Graphics: No Associated Graphics Files Contents: * Nitrogen Fixing Tree Association The Nitrogen Fixing Tree Association (NFTA) is an international association of 1,600 community groups, development workers, tree breeders, researchers and farmers.... * The New Forests Project The New Forests Project (NFP) is a people-to-people, direct-action programme established in 1982 in an effort to curb deforestation in developing countries.... * Rainforest Action Network The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a non-profit activist organisation working to save the world's rainforests and support the rights of indigenous peoples.... * Forestry Planning and Policy Assistance in Asia and the Pacific Area Traditional forest policies and strategies, essentially designed to police the forest estate, have proved to be inadequate as the resource diminished and local populations dependent on natural forest for a wide range of goods grew.... * Osa Centre for Biological Studies The Osa Centre for Biological Studies (CEBIOS SA) in Costa Rica is a private conservationist organisation in process of formation.... * The Programme of European Research Conferences The European Science Foundation (ESF) started in 1990, jointly with the Commission of European Communities and in association with several European Learned Societies a Programme of European Research Conferences largely modelled on the Gordon Research Conferencres in the USA.... * UNRISD The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency that engages in multi-disciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.... * News - Budget Lines and Funds for Projects in the Field of Tropical Forestry - Preliminary Analysis of the 3rd Call of STD-3 Forestry Proposals - 4th General Assembly of ETFRN * Courses and Conferences - Postgraduate Course in Forestry Extension - Making Forest Policy Work - A new series of training courses - Forestry Planning & Management Course - An International E-Mail Conference on Ecotechnology for Sustainable Development - An International Symposium on Agroforestry, Berlin/Germany * Publications - Forestry and Society Newsletter - 'Network' - A Newsletter for Forestry Policy Planners in the Asia-Pacific Region - The 'Revista Forestal Centroamericana' - The Challenge of Sustainable Forest Management. What future for the world's forests? FAO. - Forest Resource Assessment 1990. Tropical Countries. - FORSPA. 1992. Forestry Researchers ... a directory of forestry researchers in the Asia Pacific Region. - H. Brookfield and Y. Byron (eds.). South-East Asia's Environmental Future. The Search for Sustainability. - W.C. Clarke and R.R. Thaman (eds.). 1993. Agroforestry in the Pacific Islands - Systems for Sustainability