The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference organized by Nepal Study Center (NSC) will be held in Madison, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin’s 37th Annual Conference on South Asia’s pre-conference venue on October 16, 2008, at the Madison Concourse Hotel.

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Week is expected to be the biggest and most important forestry event in the Asia-Pacific region in 2008, and if things move as expected, every biennium thereafter. It will be a great opportunity for various stakeholders and forest managers to interact, share perspectives, and collectively seek solutions to some of the most challenging issues facing forests and forestry today. There will be plenty of interesting speeches, seminars, and events. On the list of participants are prominent veterans as well as hungry newcomers. If you're planning to attend only one forestry meeting in 2008, this should be the one!

The XIIIth World Forestry Congress (WFC), which will be held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 18-25 October 2009, is being organized by the Government of Argentina in collaboration with the FAO Forestry Department.

International Conference on

Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge

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Background
It is well established now that areas with high rates of poverty and forest areas often coincide. There is much interest in exploring ways of using forest resources in ways that benefit the poor, while sustaining the resource base. There is increasing evidence though that the potential of forests to contribute to poverty reduction is only being partially realized. There is also growing recognition that this will continue to be the case unless critical issues are addressed such as the need for greater tenure security, market reform and other supportive changes in policy to improve access to resources and markets by the poor.