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2nd Project Steering Committee Meeting held virtually for “Promotion of Vertical Integration in Wood Processing through People’s Organizations in Community Based Forest Management Areas in the Philippines”

January 11, 2022

As the project embarks on to its 2nd year from 2022, the 2nd Project Steering Committee meeting was held virtually on 20th December 2021 for project AFoCO/016/2021 for “Promotion of Vertical Integration in Wood Processing through People’s Organizations in Community Based Forest Management Areas in

On-line validation interviews successfully organized for consultation on Project Impacts and Best Practices

November 17, 2021

The Secretariat has been working on Project Impacts and Best Practices of the 6 Completed Projects and 1 ongoing project with Professor Jurgen Blaser at Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland and Dr. Ian Thompson. Consistent with the agreed Terms of Reference (ToR) and

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October 24, 2021

Project Document (AFoCO/016/2020)

July 1, 2021

Promotion of Vertical Integration in Wood Processing through People’s Organizations in Community Based Forest Management Areas in the Philippines

January 18, 2021

Goal & Objectives The project aims to support the vertical integration in Community Based Forest Management areas through the promotion of community-based livelihood opportunities through the utilization of existing plantations. It is designed to address the lack of value-adding and unsustainable timber production in Community

FEATURE: AFoCO Project produces research papers on social forestry in Indonesia

December 9, 2020

This article introduces five research papers produced by Indonesia based on the achievements of the regional project on ‘Facilitating the Participatory Planning of Community Based Forest Management Using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Technologies in Forest Resources Management in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand’, which

Exploring plant diversity data through a mobile application on forest DB management in Indonesia

November 30, 2020

This article briefly highlights the achievements of the regional project on ‘Facilitating the Participatory Planning of Community Based Forest Management Using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Technologies in Forest Resources Management in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand’, which was implemented from 2014 to 2020. Read

A glimpse of the perceived impacts of Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) in Indonesia

November 25, 2020

This article briefly highlights CBFM in Indonesia from 2015-2020 through the regional project on ‘Facilitating the Participatory Planning of Community Based Forest Management Using Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Technologies in Forest Resources Management in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand’. Many countries in Asia,

AFoCO’s first Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) initiative

October 10, 2019

Restoring degraded forest ecosystems in the Philippines through Assisted Natural Regeneration This year marks the successful completion of a five-year Regional Cooperation Project under AFoCO. The AFoCO Project entitled “Capacity Building on the Application of Landscape Approach to Support the Sustainable Natural Resources Management in