Know a successful support system: The Small-Scale Forestry Unit (3.08.00) is a group of researchers working world-wide in the explotation of the social, economic and technical dimensions of farm, family, non-industrial and community forestry. The oldest support system working for Small Forest Holdings at the international level.
It’s part of IUFRO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, that is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists that aim to comprise knowledge generation, knowledge sharing and capacity building.
The Unit was founded in 1986, as a co-operative effort of IUFRO Divisions 3, 4 and 6. The main topics of the contributions presented at the meetings have dealt with economic and policy issues and also technical aspects of small-scale forestry.
More information on their expertise, the coordinating team and their activities is available here
They organize an annual conference and its last edition took place in Tartu (Estonia).
Since 2002, the Unit is also responsible of the main international scientific journal focused on this topic, “Small-Scale Forestry“, accessible here . It is particularly useful to the global research community, policy makers, and forest managers. This is the oldest support system working for Small Forest Holdings at the international level.
