IUFRO
| Abbreviation | IUFRO |
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| Formation | 1892 |
| Type | INGO |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
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Region served
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Worldwide |
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Official language
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English, French |
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President
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Michael Wingfield (South Africa) |
| Website | IUFRO Official website |
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) (French: Union Internationale des Instituts de Recherches Forestières, German: Internationaler Verband Forstlicher Forschungsanstalten, Spanish: Unión Internacional de Institutos de Investigación Forestal) is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists, headquartered in Austria.
The IUFRO unites more than 15,000 scientists in almost 700 Member Organizations in over 110 countries. Scientists cooperate in IUFRO on a voluntary basis.
It promotes global cooperation in forest-related research and enhances the understanding of the ecological, economic and social aspects of forests and trees. It disseminates scientific knowledge to stakeholders and decision-makers and contributes to forest policy and on-the-ground forest management. IUFRO's vision is of science-based sustainable management of the world's forest resources for economic, environmental and social benefits.
With the Strategy 2015–2019, IUFRO addresses five research themes and associated emphasis areas, and three institutional goals. The following five themes aim to guide the science collaboration within IUFRO's global network in the current Strategy period:
The three institutional goals are: Goal 1 – Research Excellence: Strive for quality, relevance and synergies
Goal 2 – Network Cooperation: Increase communication, visibility and outreach
Goal 3 – Policy Impact: Provide analysis, insights and options
IUFRO generates knowledge on research needs and priorities of scientists, policymakers, practitioners and stakeholders; provides access to and disseminates scientific knowledge to policy-makers, practitioners and stakeholders; and assists scientists and institutions to strengthen their research capacity. All activities are based on volunteer collaboration among scientists.
Every five years IUFRO organizes a World Congress with about 2000 participants. The most recent was in Salt Lake City, United States, in 2014; the next will be in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2019. Between congresses, there are some 70-80 regional conferences and meetings organized by the individual IUFRO research units (i.e. Divisions, Research Groups and Working Parties, Task Forces, Special Programmes, Projects and Chapters) every year all over the world.
Many joint activities and partnership agreements occur with national governments, regional and global organizations and NGOs. For example, IUFRO is a Scientific Union Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), a member of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), and an observer organization in the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other forest-related international processes and conventions. It has established memoranda of understanding with, for instance, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), and International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA).
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