These articles present testimonials from Model Forest stakeholders around the world highlighting the International Model Forest Network’s ongoing contribution to the sustainable management and use of natural resources. The Model Forest approach improves landscape management by allowing people to define what sustainable development looks like for them and for their area. Through Model Forests, the people profiled here are making a difference.

• Aboriginal youth learn from their Elders in Canada and Sweden
• Corporate Social Responsibility, Kyoto-Style: An Approach to Collaborative Forest Management
• Ecotourism cuts illegal logging in the Philippines
• Forest certification for small landowners in Canada
• Indigenous communities & landowners cooperate in Bolivia
• Improving women’s economic leadership in Cameroon
• Landowners in Costa Rica creating a plan for a protected area
• Mainstreaming forest landscape restoration and biodiversity conservation
• Mangrove restoration in the Philippines
• Planting trees to strengthen resilience of Rwandan communities
• Ranchers co-existing with wild plains bison in Canada
• Renewable energy improves livelihoods in Chile
• Reindeer herders, GIS and land-use planning in Sweden

Governance solutions from the International Model Forest Network

ETFRN 56, Nov 2014: The Model Forest concept links high-level policy objectives of sustainable landscape management to local-level processes and tools that are anchored in inclusive, locally based governance mechanisms. This creates a framework for landscape management that is comprehensive in its approach, scalable in its operation and effective in the breadth and depth of the activities undertaken.

The IMFN Recipe Book: Featuring Non-Timber Forest Products from Model Forests around the World

The IMFN is pleased to present you with a variety of interesting recipes that come from all corners of the globe. Each recipe includes at least one non-timber forest product (NTFP) that is found in the associated Model Forest.

Integrated Landscape Management in Africa: Learning from Each Other

This policy note by Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, General Manager of the African Model Forest Network (AMFN), focuses on one aspect of the question, namely that of the delivery model for ILM. In other words, what is the approach to the approach?