The Timber Rush Project is approaching three years of its implementation. After intensive period of literature reviews and field work; the project team members are developing manuscripts for consideration towards publishing and subsequently for purposes of disseminating the findings to the wider readership. Six project team members (Esbern, Susan, Rasmus, Dismas Jens and Boukje) participated in the 4th Annual Flare Network Meeting conducted from 17th to 20th October 2018 at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Three draft papers were presented at the plenary and one paper as a poster presentation
Dr. Esbern Friis-Hansen listening to one of the presentation during the FLARE Meeting held at the University of Copenhagen, 17-19 October, 2018
The meeting attracted more than 100 scientists with diverse background in forestry and related fields from all over the world. More than 100 scientific papers were presented. Apart from sharing the research findings; the project team gained inputs to improve their draft papers as well gained new insights into the forestry and related fields that will be of great use during the next two years of project work.
The papers presented were as follows (with download links):
- Linking local knowledge and values practice and research : An African Perspective (Dismas Mwaseba, Sokoine University of Agriculture)
- A literature review of African non-industrial private forestry (NIPF) (Esbern Friis-Hansen and Boukje Boerstra, Danish Institute for International Studies)
- Towards a typology of domestic investors in non-industrial private forestry (NIPF) in Africa (Esbern Friis-Hansen, Danish Institute for International Studies)
- Timber value chain dynamics in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania (Suzana Samson, Sokoine University of Agriculture)-poster presentation
vLinking local knowledge and values practice and research: an African perspective