EVENT
FORESTS & PEOPLE
CIFOR-ICRAF at IUFRO 2024
WHEN
23-29 June 2024
WHERE
Stockholm, Sweden
SOCIAL
#Trees4Resilience
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Together for the trees
As the global food, biodiversity, and climate crises begin to crunch, the fundamental role of forests in humanity’s future is increasingly difficult to deny. In June 2024, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) will gather its global network in Stockholm, Sweden; under this year’s theme, Forests & Society towards 2050, delegates will grapple with the drastic changes expected over the coming 25 years, and seek to share knowledge and co-create solutions for a sustainable future.
CIFOR-ICRAF is an organizational partner for the event and be a co-host to IUFRO in Nairobi, Kenya in 2029. As a global leader using trees, forests, and agroforestry to address the greatest global challenges of our time, CIFOR-ICRAF is well-placed to contribute to these critical conversations with its cutting-edge research and decades of global experience. Scroll down for more on what we’re up to at IUFRO 2024 – and a taster of our work on forests and people to date.
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Forests and innovation
The theme of this year’s International Day of Forests is ‘Forests and Innovation: New solutions for a better world’. While the forestry sector is not widely seen as one of the world’s most innovative, there are plenty of new and ongoing developments – within the sector and beyond – with clear potential for implementation and scaling to make transformative impact.
In this vein, CIFOR-ICRAF, is drawing on emerging innovations from a wide range of sectors to help revolutionize forest conservation, making it more targeted, efficient, and effective. For instance, CIFOR-ICRAF scientists led the development of the Regreening App, a mobile-based Android application that allows users to collect data at the farm level on a range of land restoration practices, enabling robust landscape-level monitoring.
Meanwhile, in CIFOR-ICRAF’s state-of-the-art Soil Spectroscopy Lab, scientists analyses soil samples to show vital information about nutrient levels, organic matter content, and potential limitations, while in the Living Soils Laboratory they study the complex interactions between soil microbes, nutrients, and plant growth. The CIFOR-ICRAF Tree Genebank safeguards the diversity of trees across Africa by storing seeds from a vast array of species, while the CIFOR-ICRAF Dendroecology Laboratory allows scientists to analyse tree rings to reconstruct past climate patterns, help predict future climate impacts, and develop strategies for adapting forest management practices.
In this vein, CIFOR-ICRAF, is drawing on emerging innovations from a wide range of sectors to help revolutionize forest conservation, making it more targeted, efficient, and effective. For instance, CIFOR-ICRAF scientists led the development of the Regreening App, a mobile-based Android application that allows users to collect data at the farm level on a range of land restoration practices, enabling robust landscape-level monitoring.
Meanwhile, in CIFOR-ICRAF’s state-of-the-art Soil Spectroscopy Lab, scientists analyses soil samples to show vital information about nutrient levels, organic matter content, and potential limitations, while in the Living Soils Laboratory they study the complex interactions between soil microbes, nutrients, and plant growth. The CIFOR-ICRAF Tree Genebank safeguards the diversity of trees across Africa by storing seeds from a vast array of species, while the CIFOR-ICRAF Dendroecology Laboratory allows scientists to analyse tree rings to reconstruct past climate patterns, help predict future climate impacts, and develop strategies for adapting forest management practices.
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