The International Analog Forestry Network (IAFN) delivered an introductory workshop on analog forestry and ecological restoration with representatives of the Foundation for the Development of the Central Volcanic Range (FUNDECOR) in the Finca Fila Marucha,…
The International Analog Forestry Network is an organization that is helping to heal the life support systems of the planet and we’ve been busy expanding our reach and our organization to meet the ever-increasing demands…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Following a positive experience with the community of Rancho Quemado in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, the IAFN team delivered a second community-based training in the community of Hojancha, in Guanacaste province. Participants came from…
One of the key challenges of running an international network is this: how can you translate a global scope into local results? At IAFN, we work with local partners who have impact on the ground…
What happens to a group of trainees once our workshops end? Three months after the first analog forestry workshop with the community of Rancho Quemado in the Osa Peninsula, the IAFN team paid a follow-up…
After a long time in the works, IAFN supported a capacity building activity with Les Compagnons Ruraux, a Togolese NGO that has been active in the restoration of Togo’s mountain ecosystems. This was IAFN’s first…