Analog forestry in the post-2015 agenda Our director, Bob Sutton, recently attended the meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, held in Mexico City. Now, he reflects on the positioning of analog forestry…
Analog forestry has an important history in Bolivia, and a new chapter was started with a workshop in March 2014. The first analog forestry workshop with PROBIOMA and its counterparts was carried out from March…
In the aftermath of a brutal civil war, war-torn communities are planting the seeds of restoration and peace. On Saturday May, 3rd Rainforest Rescue International and its implementing partner, Oxfam Italy, officially opened a seed…
It has been about thirty-five years since I began to develop and promote the idea that we had to use the designs of nature in forestry. Prompted by the urgency created by disappearance of indicator…
At the IAFN Secretariat, we receive many requests for training from organizations and individuals around the world who would like to become more familiar with the analog forestry methodology. However, limited financial resources and other…
Costa Rica, April 2014. This April, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) completed its evaluation of the most recent version of the production standards for Forest Garden Products (FGP). The FGP standards have…
Secretariat happenings From April 14th to 16th, we were privileged to join over 1500 delegates from around the world in Mexico City to talk about the future of development cooperation. South-south and triangular learning networks…
As the global community works toward the post-2015 agenda, much has been written about the new incarnation of the Millenium Development Goals. Called the Sustainable Development Goals, these new objectives will guide development policy and…
Forest fires and bark beetle infestations are rapidly destroying conifer forests in non-coastal Western North America, and, subsequently, the life ending process of desertification is evident by decreasing annual rainfall. Communities throughout these Western bioregions…
This article was published originally by Guido Scaccabarozzi in the ASVI Social Change blog in Italian. It has been edited and translated with the author’s permission. For more about ArBio’s work, see the ArBio Peru website.…