news — Chair of Tropical Forestry

Nov 11, 2019

Successful MSc defense in WoodCluster project

Japhet Noah Mwambusi, MSc student of the Tropical Forestry course, successfully defended his MSc thesis on 28 October 2019. The thesis focusses on “Silvicultural Treatments of Woodlots of Smallholder Forest Producers and their Relation to the Timber Market in Mufindi...

Nov 04, 2019

Source: Tropical Forestry Blog

International conferences as necessary academic activities for Ph.D students

For Ph.D students, participating in an international conference is a vital academic activity because international conferences are great opportunities to not only expend the professional network but also share the results of the reseach with attendees from different countries and...

Oct 23, 2019

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Welcome our new Tutor Barbara!

Hi friends! My name is Barbara Azeroth and I started working as a tutor of Tropical forestry at the Technical University Dresden. Even though I’ve only been here since October, I get along well, because I’ve already done my Bachelor´s...

Oct 23, 2019

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Wood Value Chain and Market analysis in Chefasine

I am Redat Aysa Choramo from Ethiopia. I researched on wood value chain and market chain in Chefasine Kebele, Hawassa Zuria district , SNNP-Region, Ethiopia. This research was done under WoodCluster project sponsored by German government under DAAD as a...

Oct 23, 2019

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Woodlot inventory group: The field study conducted from 3 woodlots at Chefasine Village

As part of the 2nd WoodCluster Field School in Ethiopia, the Woodlot inventory group set out to do inventories for Eucalyptus plantations from Chefasine Kebele (village) and to capture the variations in the wood from the different woodlots owned by...

Oct 15, 2019

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Discussing with Dresden citizens about environmental sustainable consumption

Almost every sphere of our daily life contains products that have their origins in the tropical parts of the world. What do we actually know about the roots and life cycle of these products? Can it be environmentally sustainable to...

Sep 29, 2019

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Chair of Tropical Forestry receives a delegation from the Republic of Congo

Dresden has many international town twinning partnerships. One of them is with Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo (not to be confused with the DRC – Democratic Republic of Congo). At the request of the Mayor of Dresden,...

Sep 18, 2019

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Tropical Forestry Team at Umundu Festival Dresden

Members of the Tropical Forestry team are conducting a session on “Balancing economic development and environmental sustainability” at the 11. Umundu Festival for Sustainable Development in Dresden. We will look behind the scences of products that we daily use but...

Sep 18, 2019

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Farm Mapping Exercise at the WoodCluster Field School in Ethiopia

One of the three thematic group activities conducted by participants of the 2nd WoodCluster Field School was the farm mapping and analysis, carried out under the supervision of Dr. Fritz Haubold from TU Dresden. The team of seven was composed...