Welcome to the CFA

Professor John Innes, CFA President 

“The objective of the CFA is to promote the conservation and sustainable management of the world's forests and the contributions they make to peoples’ livelihoods…..”

“A particularly important aspect of the CFA is the links that are being forged between forestry professionals and civil society”.

Read why Professor Innes supports the CFA


Recent publications

International Forestry Review - December 2025  

CFA Newsletter - March  2026

Papers

Reassessing fiscal federalization: policy assessment of forestry sector royalty revenue-sharing in Nepal R.B. DANGI

A bibliometric analysis of research on forest policy in Mexico N.E. GARCÍA, O.A. RIVERA, J.L. COMPEÁN, C. BORREGO, P.M. LÓPEZ, H.G. CHICO, G. VÁZQUEZ and E. GARCÍA

Public perceptions and willingness to pay for urban forests’ ecosystem services: evidence from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia J.S.J. GOOI, J. MAHANTA, H. FURUIDO, S. SHIBASAKI and T.K. NATH

Interaction between state forestry governance and wood production, afforestation, forest fires and crimes in Türkiye M. KOÇ, K. OK and S. KETE

The institutional dialectic of deforestation and conservation: lessons from a matrilineal community in Indonesia E. MARTIN

Rethinking forest governance during a “second war” in British Columbia’s woods: a Collaborative Action Framework W. NIKOLAKIS and J.L. INNES

Projection of forest carbon sequestration potential in Russia based on the GM(1,1) model A. VILKOV and G. TIAN

Characteristics of price fluctuations and trend prediction for China’s major imported log species M. YAO and J. WU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lead
• How will we meet global wood demand?
 

Essay
CFA Voices

 

Forest Scenes
• Carbon offsets are failing
• Invitation to Consortium on Legacy Forest Information Resources
• Nitrogen fixing
• Roots of resilience
• Strengthening forest concessions in Peru
• The lost forests of Sindh
• Tree bark microbiome

 

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Latest News

Nigeria Chapter Conference - virtual meeting
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