During the last few decades, forestry assistance has benefited from the positive interest in environmental issues and has generally been less questioned than many other sectors of fields within international development assistance. If compared with its own goals and the resources invested, it hav...
Fruhling, P.
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Persson, R.
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[Lessons for change: getting more from international forestry assistance]
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Lessons for change: getting more from international forestry assistance
Sweden contributes large amounts annually to the Consultative Group of International Agriculture Research Organizations (CGIAR), an important body for international Agriculture research. some SEK 80 milion was provided in 1998 alone. But surprisingly few swedish scientists work in International A...
Persson, R.
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Rudebjer, P.G.
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[There is no place like home - why are there so few Swedish scientists in the international research institutes on agriculture and agroforestry?]
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There is no place like home - why are there so few Swedish scientists in the international research institutes on agriculture and agroforestry?
The process by which CIFOR became the 16th and newest research centre of the Consultative Group on Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 1993 is described. CIFOR is located at Bogor in Indonesia and employs about 40 internationally recruited scientists including foresters, social scientists and econom...