Trees of Sri Lanka
August 2014 was my second international trip out of my country, Cameroon, and my first outside of the African continent. I have no regrets at all that I took part in this expedition to the… 
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August 2014 was my second international trip out of my country, Cameroon, and my first outside of the African continent. I have no regrets at all that I took part in this expedition to the… Each one teach one: a new cohort of analog forestry trainers
One of the International Analog Forestry Network’s key programs is capacity building activities relating to the practice of analog forestry. For this to expand internationally, it is important to have a solid network of trainers… Restoring urban watersheds: An update from Los Cipreses
The opportunity to participate in the rehabilitation of a degraded area bordering one of the main and most contaminated rivers crossing the capital of Costa Rica has been a truly rewarding experience. IAFN has been… Pambiliño Reserve – a story of balance
Last year, IAFN launched a new instalment of its demonstration sites program. In our 2014 call for proposals, we invited applications from around the world for new sites where people would restore degraded ecosystems using… Finca La Célula: Family food security, biodiversity, and sustianability
Last year, IAFN launched a new instalment of its demonstration sites program. In our 2014 call for proposals, we invited applications from around the world for new sites where people would restore degraded ecosystems using… IAFN launches a new plant database!
In the practice of analog forestry, it is important to have a repository of information of useful species to include in forest designs. For example, a design may require trees of a certain height or… Los Cipreses: an analog forest takes root
At the beginning of this year, we were interested in establishing an analog forestry site in Costa Rica's capital of San José, the new location of the IAFN's secretariat office since August of 2013. This… What is photosynthetic biomass?
Currently, when discussions of climate change mitigation discuss carbon capture by plants, the primary focus is on woody biomass. There is a newfound appreciation of the ecosystem service provided by plants, in which they convert… End-of-year message from Belipola Training Centre
As the earth has travelled around the sun in this year that we call 2014, the forest garden at Belipola has been slowly re-entering the consciousness of the world. It had been quietly fermenting for… End-of-year message from the Centro de Capacitación Bosques Análogos
The training of agronomists, forest engineers, community leaders, and farmers in the methodology of analog forestry is of major importance to farming communities around the world for obvious reasons. Since 2007, as one of the… 