As previously announced on our ArBio Italia Facebook page, ArBio has taken part in a competition organized by the Climate CoLab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. This competition aims at implementing…
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…
IAFN’s mission statement includes the phrase “a new rural development paradigm”. But is analog forestry only a solution for rural areas? Can the forest never again come to the city? These days, more than half…
Athina Koutouleas is a sustainable agriculturalist from Australia. Starting in May 2014, she and her partner embarked on a bike tour across Latin America, visiting sustainable agriculture and analog forestry sites across the continent. Reports…
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…