WoodCluster
National Bio-Economies based on Farm-Wood-Production: Narrowing the East African Wood Supply Gap
- a project of the BMBF program
"Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions with Sub-Saharan-Africa-Measures for Research and Integrated Postgraduate Training and Continuing Training"
Funded by the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Administered by the project agencies:
Duration: January 2017 until December 2022
Countries in East Africa have a high demand of wood for fuelwood, construction material and diverse products. This need cannot be supplied. The ongoing deforestation by humans leads to a destruction of forests and landscapes that puts ecosystems and people’s livelihoods at risk.
This reflects the problems and dynamics that the WoodCluster project is focusing on. It aims to narrow the East African (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda) wood supply gap by elaborating sustainable solutions over the coming four years until beginning 2021.
The project is composed of two modules, M1 Research and M2 Education and Training. They have an individual planning and funding frame, but are complementary modules. They shall deliver results within both fields and create additional, fruitful cooperation effects.
Contact
Head of the project: Prof. Dr. Lukas Giessen
Project coordinator: Kendisha S. Hintz
Tel. +49 351 463-31832
Fax +49 351 463-31820
Website: https://tu-dresden.de/forst/woodcluster
Blog: https://tropicalforestry.wordpress.com/tag/woodcluster/