WFSE global network
WFSE consists of a core group of well-known partner institutions that mobilise and facilitate the participation of the entire research community in the WFSE process. WFSE is also benefiting from the existing research networks provided by IUFRO. The WFSE Steering Committee is composed of the partners’ representatives, with the coordination provided and funded by the Finnish Forest Research Institute.
The partners form a unique forum for planning and evaluating the project activities, for focusing the research on globally relevant forest issues, and for ensuring wide dissemination of the output. 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
ICRAF
The World Agroforestry Centre; Kenya
INBAR
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan; China
IWF/BFH
Bundesforschungsanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft (BFH) (Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products); Germany
METLA
The Finnish Forest Research Institute; Finland
NRCan
Natural Resources Canada /Resources naturelles Canada; Canada
UNU
The United Nations University; Japan
New collaboration links were established in 2003 – 2004 with the University of Cordoba in Spain and the Forestry Faculty of University of Chile in Chile.
In addition, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has contributed importantly, as an observer, to the purpose of the project activities.
