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Jun 01, 2022
Source: Tropical Forestry Blog

Forests in Art: visit to Neue Meister Gallery

Art is a three-letter word, yet absorbed in the vastness of told, untold stories. Stories that we lived, stories we are living, and hidden stories that we are going to live. Incorporated within our Tropical Forestry master’s degree course, and as part of the module on “Forest Development and …
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May 23, 2022
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The Santa Maria treasure hunt: a weekly blog series of field adventures

Week 1: The first plunge I arrived one week ago in San Francisco de Veraguas, a small town in the middle and upper section of the Santa Maria River basin in Panama . I’m here to collect information for my MSc thesis project, focused on understanding the role of grassroots movements in watershed …
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May 19, 2022
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Recap of the side event “Evaluating policy impacts: How to better assess the effectiveness of international forest policy”

On May 4th 2022, a hybrid side event entitled “Evaluating policy impacts: How to better assess the effectiveness of international forest policy?” was held in the framework of the XV World Forestry Congress in Seoul, South Korea. The event was jointly organised by the Technical University of …
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May 17, 2022
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Our Alumni Network Project “Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management”

The project aims at bringing together alumni from all over the world for strengthening interdisciplinary and holistic approaches on complex environment and development policy issues. For this, three alumni capacity building and networking seminars are planned, which will take place in Laos, …
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May 03, 2022
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Join us at the XV World Forestry Congress in Seoul or Online!

The Chair of Tropical and International Forestry invites you to attend the following events with contributions from our institute members: – May 3, | 9:00 am – 10:30 am (CET) Marcel Starfinger in Sub-theme 3 – Session 3: Innovation in the forest sector: New paths to growth and sustainability …
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May 03, 2022
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The Spring internship in Unitäts-Forstverwal­tung

With the end of our first semester in Germany, winter vacations came, and for us, the best idea to enjoy them was to invest some time in learning about German Forest Management. Since the winter of 2021, we tried to make some contact within the MSc Tropical-Forestry network for an internship or …
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Apr 26, 2022
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Join us at the #IFPM4

The Chair of Tropical and International Forestry invite you all to the “4th International Forest Policy Meeting” on 27 – 29 April 2022. Several members of our institute will participate as presenters: Two of our alumni, Gordon Manu and Johanne Eckelmann, in the “Early career researchers’ …
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Apr 25, 2022
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Michael Jenke’s successful doctoral defense on Community Forestry in Thailand

Michael Jenke successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Enabling effective community forestry through a national co-management program: The case of Thailand’s community forestry program” on March 7th, 2022. Michael’s project was supervised by Prof. Jürgen Pretzsch (Chair of Tropical …
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Apr 11, 2022
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Meet Aruna Kainyande – An alumnus & new institute staff member

My name is Aruna Kainyande, and I am from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I live in Dresden, a city that has become my home away from home for the past two years. I have recently joined the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products in April 2022 as a Research Assistant in the …
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