News from the internal elements of IFSA.
Getting to know IFSA - A New Term This July, IFSA is hosting a series of four online sessions aimed at helping members better understand how the organization works, what principles guide it, and how to take a more active role within the network. A new term is starting in [...]
Open Call: Apply for Partial Funding for IFSS 2025 Dear IFSA Members, We are happy to announce our Development Fund Special for IFSS 2025! The Development Fund is a part of the IFSA budget that is used to support IFSA members to engage with IFSA activities - individuals as well [...]
Forest Europe 9th Ministerial Conference Youth delegation experience Introduction The 9th Ministerial Conference is the highest event of a German four-year chairmanship of the FOREST EUROPE process. During the event representatives of signatory countries and observer organizations, following the process workstreams, discussed Sustainable Forest management, resilience, and youth inclusion. The [...]
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) RENEWAL BETWEEN CIFOR-ICRAF AND IFSA REPORT Figure 1. CIFOR-ICRAF and IFSA MoU Renewal Ceremony in CIFOR-ICRAF Headquarters, Bogor, Indonesia (Source: CIFOR-ICRAF Documentation) BOGOR, Indonesia — The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) have renewed [...]
LC Project of April 2024 Name of Project: Forestry Games Local Committee: IFSA LC Belgrade, Serbia The annual all-round event of “Forestry Games” was held by LC Belgrade, Serbia, on Monday, April 15th 2024. This lively competition brought together students from the Faculty of Forestry, the Faculty of Sports and [...]
LC Project of March 2024 Name of Project: Seedlings Care Activity Local Committee: IFSA FAMU, Uganda The Local Committee (LC) of the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) at Makerere University (FAMU) once again demonstrated its unwavering commitment to forest conservation and biodiversity protection through its recent Seedling Care [...]
LC Project of February 2024 Name of Project: Plastic Free Palung Local Committee: IFSA Hetauda, Nepal Hetauda, Nepal – The students of the Faculty of Forestry at the Agriculture and Forestry University, under the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA Hetauda), organized a three-day "Plastic Free Palung" campaign from [...]
LC Project of December 2023 Name of Project: Balkan Meeting Local Committee: IFSA SKOPS-LC This year’s Balkan Meeting was organized in Bulgaria by IFSA SKOPS-LC and took its place from October 31st-November 4th 2023. During these four days, all participants had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Training [...]
IFSA-Hetauda Local Congress 2024 Report INTRODUCTION Local Congress is an annual event organized by IFSA-Hetauda. It is one of the flagship events of IFSA-Hetauda. This year IFSA-Hetauda organized 2nd Local Congress with the title “Local Congress 2024” with the theme “Greening Our Future: Local Action, Global Impact”. Local Congress 2024 [...]
Interim Meeting 2024 Report The Interim meeting is an annual hybrid meeting where IFSA Officials convene in person to evaluate their performance during the first half of the term and discuss the issues and solutions to improve the association’s operations. This year, it took place in Bern Switzerland from [...]
June 5, celebrated as World Environment Day established by the United Nations in 1972, it is the largest international environmental event with millions of people participating worldwide. It has evolved into a prominent global platform for promoting environmental awareness. It was set up to pay homage to what is considered [...]
The Report of the Major Group Led Initiative in Support of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) UN office Nairobi, March 4 to 6, 2024 Introduction The Major Group Led Initiative, a pivotal gathering under the UNFF umbrella, brings together representatives from various major groups including women, farmers [...]
FOREST EUROPE Expert Level Meeting 9-10 January, 2024, Bonn, Germany Summary of the event The Expert Level Meeting is the second most important event in the process of FOREST EUROPE after the Ministerial Conference. This event is dedicated to the negotiations on the ministerial documents that will be signed at [...]
IFSA Delegation at The Forests Dialogue Bioenergy from Forest Scoping Dialogue Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Delegates: Karen Gómez García Date: February 27, 2024 Organiser: The Forests Dialogue Summary Bioenergy from forests (BEF) is the energy produced by the combustion of wood, wood waste, or biofuels [...]
