IUFRO Spotlight #65 – Tying up loose ends in gender equality in forestry
IUFRO Spotlight #65 – Tying up loose ends in gender equality in forestry
“In recent years gender equality in forestry has received a lot of attention – or lip service, anyway – but that’s not good enough. There exist a lot of loose ends at the practice and at the policy level,” said Dr. Purabi Bose, author, social environmental scientist, filmmaker and deputy coordinator of the IUFRO Gender and Forestry Research Group.
Read more…Congress Spotlight #64: Latest in forest science to be showcased in Brazil
Latest in forest science to be showcased in Brazil
IUFRO Spotlight issues up to September 2019 will primarily focus on the XXV IUFRO World Congress that will take place on 29 September – 5 October 2019 in Curitiba, Brazil.
Individual Congress sessions will be highlighted in order to draw attention to the broader Congress themes, the wide variety of topics that will be addressed at the Congress and their importance on a regional and global scale.
Visit the Congress website at http://iufro2019.com/ or https://www.iufro.org/events/congresses/2019/.
For the first Spotlight in this series we have invited Dr. Jerry Vanclay, Chair of the IUFRO World Congress Scientific Committee, to offer a sneak peak of the attractive and comprehensive technical program and talk about his personal expectations of the Congress.
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