This quarterly newsletter, ForLive Highlights, has been prepared to inform you about the ongoing activities and outcomes of the ForLive project “Forest management by small farmers in the Amazon: An opportunity to enhance forest ecosystem stability and rural livelihoods”. In this first newsletter, we present a summary of the achievements of the first year of the project, including experiences gained with Participatory Action Research and selected topics of academic research.
Hopefully, ForLive Highlights will stimulate your interest and contribute to enhance collaboration in the attempt to search for more effective ways of using forests to benefit local people.
The project consortium, coordinated by the University of Freiburg in Germany is composed by the following partners: the Instituto do Homen e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (IMAZON) and the Universidad Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), both from Brazil, the Asociación para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Integral (AIDER) in Peru; the Universidad Autónoma de Beni (UAB) in Bolivia, the Servicio Forestal Amazónico (SFA) in Ecuador, the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, the Universidad de León in Spain, and the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
The project started on 1st of February 2005 and will conclude on the 31st of January 2008.
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