[Occasional Paper No. 1]
Forestry research within the consultative group on International agricultural research.

[Occasional Paper No. 2]
Social and economical aspects of Miombo woodland management in Southern Africa: options and opportunities for research.

[Occasional Paper No. 9]
Rates and causes of deforestation in Indonesia: Towards a resolution of the ambiguities.

[Occasional Paper No. 10]
Report on Discussion Forum on Information Services in the Asia-Pacific and AGRIS/CARIS in the 21st Century an Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation

[Occasional Paper No. 11]
Capacity for Forestry Research in the Southern African Development Community

Box Item 1: CIFOR Research and Related Activities

• PROGRAMME 1: POLICY DEVELOPMENT
  • Policies and incentives to ensure the sustainable management of natural forests and encourage reforestation of degraded lands
  • Systems for equitable distribution of the benefits and costs of forest goods and services
  • Adoption of policy change
  • Employment and income from forests
  • Location and types of global and national forest resources to satisfy future demands for goods and travel
    
    
• PROGRAMME 2: MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL FORESTS ?
  • Low-impact harvesting and management
  • Management for biodiversity and diverse productsforest
  • Growth and yield prediction systems
  • Sustainable management Of dry zone woodlands
  • Reproductive biology and genetics
    
    
• PROGRAMME 3: REFORESTATION OF DEGRADED LANDS
  • Non-industrial technique_ for reforestation of degraded lands
  • Matching tree species genotype to biophysical site for and management systems
  • Techniques for characterizing genetic ~ variation and relating it to physiological and morphological adaptations
  • Physiology and biochemistry of plant material for improved vegetative propagation
  • Plantations Or mixed tree species for multiple products
  • Yield in second and subsequent rotations of tree plantations
    
    
• PROGRAMME 4: PRODUCTS AND MARKETS
  • Management for non-wood forest products by local communities
  • Market requirements and possibilities for underused non-wond forest products
  • Expansion and harmonization of databases on properties and uses of tropical timbers and non-wood forest products
  • Social and economic impacts of new technology for adding higher values to products in or near the forest
    
    
• PROGRAMME 5: RESEARCH SUPPORT AND INFORMATION
  • Development of human and institutional resources
  • Publication and information services
  • Database harmonization, integration and dissemination

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Box Item 2: ICRAF programmes

• RESEARCH
  • Characterization and impact - dealing with environmental and economic characterization of land-use systems, the validation of technologies and the assessment of policy and impact issues related to their adoption
  • Multipurpose tree improvement identifying, collecting, evaluating, conserving and improving multipurpose tree germplasm
  • Component interactions - focusing on process-oriented research designed to test hypotheses and obtain scientific data on nutrient cycling, soil conservation, how trees and crops compete for light, water and nutrients and how pests affect such processes
  • Systems improvement - dealing with the development and improvement of management systems and strategies
    
    
• DISSEMINATION
  • Training - to enhance the skills and knowledge of agroforestry scientists and others so that they can diagnose land-use constraints and design and implement agroforestry research projects leading to the development of systems and technologies suited to local conditions and adoptable by farmers
  • Education - to strengthen the capacity of universities and technical colleges to teach agroforestry at the postgraduate, undergraduate, diploma and certificate levels
  • Information - to support agroforestry research, training and development through dissemination of information on agroforestry

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