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06/16/2025

✅Job Opportunity ✅

We’re hiring in Rwanda🔈

CIFOR-ICRAF is looking for a Project Coordinator to support restoration, seed systems, and agroforestry initiatives.

Based in Kigali, the successful candidate will help coordinate technical activities, engage partners, and contribute to impactful projects restoring landscapes and improving livelihoods.

📍 Location: Kigali, Rwanda
📄 Deadline & full details: 🔗 bit.ly/4mTevEk

06/06/2025

Congratulations to the authors whose abstracts have been selected!

We appreciate all the researchers and practitioners who submitted their innovative findings. The selected abstracts to be presented at our 11th Annual Meeting have been notified! Please check your email for next steps.

06/04/2025

🟢 Call for Proposals 🟢

Special Feature in People and Nature: "Halfway through the UN Decade: Taking Stock of Social-Ecological Restoration"

Restoration scientists and practitioners are invited to submit proposals exploring the social and ecological outcomes of restoration initiatives. Research that critically examines challenges, evaluates impact, and offers innovative solutions is highly encouraged.

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Full Manuscript Deadline: December 31, 2025

Learn more and submit your proposals here: People and Nature https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/25758314/homepage/ecosystem-restoration

05/30/2025

More than just meetings!

Our Annual Meetings foster a shared commitment to forests and frontline communities.

This October, let’s meet in Peru to connect, learn and cocreate evidence-based pathways for sustainable forests and thriving communities.

Learn more: https://www.forestlivelihoods.org/annual-meeting-2025/

05/19/2025

Our second policy brief suggests 3 key actions that can best support community forest governance:

✅Local and national governments should grant legal recognition to local forest management authorities

✅Public and private donors should invest in national and subnational analyses to better understand the local context

✅Legislators, program designers and implementers should take a locally-responsive approach to policy and program development

Full policy brief: https://doi.org/10.7274/28346984

05/09/2025

Our New Policy Brief is Live!

We are excited to announce the release of our second policy brief on "Community Forest Governance: Supporting Better Outcomes for People and the Planet."

This brief highlights how empowering local communities in forest management creates sustainable benefits for people and the planet.

Read the full policy brief here: https://curate.nd.edu/articles/report/Community_Forest_Governance_Supporting_better_outcomes_for_people_and_the_planet_FLARE_Policy_Brief_No_2_FLARE_Keough_School_Policy_Brief_Series_/28346984

Fischer Chhatre Duddu Pradhan Agrawal

Pulte Institute for Global Development University of Notre Dame

05/05/2025

Nominate a Global Forestry Champion!

The FAO is calling for nominations to recognize global forestry champions who have made outstanding contributions to sustainable forest management, agrifood systems transformation, and more.

This is a great chance to celebrate those dedicated leaders who are making a difference in protecting our forests and supporting local communities worldwide.

Check out the details and consider nominating someone or sharing it with your network: https://www.fao.org/forestry/home/fao-80-global-forestry-recognition/en

Deadline: May 31st 2025

2025 marks FAO’s 80th anniversary, celebrating eight decades of contributing to global food security and sustainable development. To commemorate FAO@80 and ...

05/02/2025

Our Abstract Portal is now closed!

We appreciate those who submitted their innovative findings.

You should expect decisions on your abstracts by May 28th.

04/25/2025

After a natural disaster, hope can feel hard to come by. But even in the most difficult circumstances, trees can grow hope.​

So when communities lose their trees to fires, hurricanes, or tornados, the recovery effort goes long beyond rebuilding homes.

It’s why when the time is right to replant after a disaster, planting trees means a lot. It means healing uprooted neighborhoods and reknitting the fabric of a community. It means a living, growing investment in the future of a place. It means hope.

This Arbor Day, join us to dig a little deeper to plant hope in places that need it most.

04/25/2025

🌍 Become a National Geographic Explorer!

National Geographic is offering grants for bold, place-based solutions that use spatial thinking to inspire action on one of the following areas: Oceans, Wildlife, Land, Human Histories and Culture, Space and Planetary Health. Or, within the Land focus area, focusing specifically on freshwater availability, quality, and/or sustainability.

Whether you're mapping environmental challenges, designing community-based programs, or using geography to tell powerful stories, this is your chance to scale your vision.

Pre-applications Due: Monday, May 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT
Deadline: May 22, 2025
📌 Learn more & apply: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/grants-and-investments/rfp-spatial-thinking-inspiring-action-through-place-based-solutions/



Photo credit: National Geographic

04/24/2025

Join our first gathering in Latin America!

There is so much unfolding at the intersection of forests and livelihoods today, and we’re excited to have you join and share in this important conversation this October.

Learn more and register to join our upcoming Annual Meeting: https://www.forestlivelihoods.org/annual-meeting-2025/

04/23/2025

Exciting New Research!

Checkout latest findings from our Sustainable Agriculture Working Group led by Sunderland

This special issue shares insights on how we can grow food in ways that are good for both our food security and environmental sustainability.

Read: https://link.springer.com/collections/bhfichgded

Forests provide a range of services and disservices to food production that are conceptually well established. The empirical evidence for these contributions ...