IUFRO-WFSE Global network

IUFRO-WFSE consists of a core group of well-known partner institutions that mobilize and facilitate the participation of the entire research community in the IUFRO-WFSE process. IUFRO-WFSE also benefits from the existing research networks provided by IUFRO. The IUFRO-WFSE Steering Committee is composed of the partners’ representatives. The coordination is provided and funded by the Finnish Forest Research Institute.

The partners form a unique forum for planning and evaluating project activities, for focusing the research on globally relevant forest issues, and for ensuring wide dissemination of the project's outputs. IUFRO-WFSE's partners are located in different regions of the world and are well aware of the most current changes and transitional developments on-going in the interrelations between forests, society and the environment. The partners are:

CATIE
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center); Costa Rica

CIFOR
Center for International Forestry Research; Indonesia

CIRAD-forêt
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement, France

EFI
European Forest Institute; Finland

FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Italy

ICRAF
The World Agroforestry Centre; Kenya

METLA
The Finnish Forest Research Institute; Finland

NRCan
Natural Resources Canada /Resources naturelles Canada; Canada

UNU
The United Nations University; Germany

vTI
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut; Germany

Collaboration links were established in 2003 – 2004 with the University of Cordoba in Spain and the Forestry Faculty of the University of Chile in Chile.