Mission CIFOR's mission is to contribute to the sustained well-being of people in developing countries, particularly in the tropics. It achieves this through collaborative, strategic and applied research and by promoting the transfer and adoption of appropriate new technologies and social systems for national development. Objectives To improve the scientific basis that underpins balanced management of forests and forest lands To develop policies and technologies for sustainable use and management of forest goods and services To assist partner governments improve their capacity to research and support the optimal use of forests and forestlands.
Fighting forest crime and promoting prudent banking for sustainable forest management: The anti money laundering approach
Bambang Setiono, Yunus Husein, October 2005Payments for environmental services: Some nuts and bolts
Sven Wunder, September 2005CIFOR Annual Report 2004: Forests for People and the Environment
CIFOR, August 2005Recent Experience in Collaborative Forest Management: A Review Paper
Jane Carter, July 2005Economic Costs and Benefi ts of Allocating Forest Land for Industrial Tree Plantation Development in Indonesia
Julia Maturana, June 2005Contributing to African development through forests: strategy for engagement in sub-Saharan Africa
Center for International Forestry Research, June 2005Science for Forests and People CIFOR Annual Report 2003
CIFOR, September 2004Forests and people: research that makes a difference
CIFOR, October 2003The Impact of Sectoral Development on Natural Forest Conversion and Degradation: The Case of Timber and Tree Crop Plantations in Indonesia
Hariadi Kartodihardjo, Agus Supriono, January 2003Forest Carbon and Local Livelihoods: Assesment of Opportunities and Policy Recomendations
Joyotee Smith, Sara J. Scherr, September 2002How to Know More about Forests? Supply and Use of Information for Forest Policy
K. Janz, R. Persson, April 2002Modelling Methods for Policy Analysis in Miombo Woodlands
Nhantumbo, G. Kowero, December 2001The Invisible Wand: Adaptive Co-management as an Emergent Strategy in Complex Bio-economic Systems
Jack Ruitenbeek, Cynthia Cartier, October 2001Forestry, Poverty and Aid
J.E. Michael Arnold, August 2001Towards Sustainable Management and Development of Tropical Secondary Forests in Asia
CIFOR, January 2001The Effect of Indonesia's Economic Crisis on Small Farmers and Natural Forest Cover in the Outer Islands
William D. Sunderlin, Ida Aju, June 2000The Hesitant Boom: Indonesia's Oil Palm Sub-Sector in an Era of Economic Crisis and Political Change
Anne Casson, June 2000The Underlying Causes of Forest Decline
Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla, June 2000Criteria and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainabilty of Forest Management: Conservation of Biodiversity
N.E. Strok, T.J.B. Boyle, August 1997