Scholarship African Forest Forum - HAFL 19/20
The African Forest Forum and HAFL will team up to identify and promote young professionals in Africa, who will do master’s studies and undertake research on forest policies and sustainable forest management.
Steckbrief
- Beteiligte Departemente Hochschule für Agrar-, Forst- und Lebensmittelwissenschaften
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Institut(e)
HAFL Institut Hugo P. Cecchini
Agronomie - Forschungseinheit(en) Internationale Landwirtschaft und ländliche Entwicklung
- Förderorganisation Andere
- Laufzeit 01.01.2019 - 31.05.2021
- Projektleitung Prof. Dr. Urs Christoph Scheidegger
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Projektmitarbeitende
Dr. Mélanie Feurer
Prof. Dr. Urs Christoph Scheidegger
Laura Kuonen
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Blaser
Karent Paola Kupferschmied - Partner African Forest Forum
- Schlüsselwörter Forest policy, climate change, forest conservation, forest management
Ausgangslage
The aim of the project is to build African capacity in forest-related policy and management in African countries by providing opportunities for young professionals from Africa to undertake master’s degree studies at HAFL and by supporting research.
Vorgehen
A call for proposals is launched jointly to identify candidates for master’s studies and research proposals in the following thrusts: • Policies, responses to and impacts of climate change. • Forest governance, livelihoods and trade in forest products and services • Stakeholder capacity to respond to climate change AFF and HAFL jointly evaluate the proposals. HAFL supports winning proposals in designing and implementing the research projects.
