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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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Since August, Jana Tillmann has been supporting our team as a student assistant in the research area Economic Evaluation, Forest and Society.

Ein Portrait von Jana Tillmann

The "Typical Enterprise Approach" put to the test. Small-scale private forest enterprises play an important role in many EU countries.

Management practices in different countries

Since mid july Caroline de Souza Cruz Salomão has joined our team in the working group "Forestry Worldwide" as a researcher.

A portrait of Caroline Salomão

New estimates on global wood fuel improve available data considerably and help to better understand wood fuel removals and charcoal production in many countries.

Estimated 2019 wood fuel removals per capita (m3)

evidence from south-central Ethiopia. The study assesses the performance of passive and active restoration strategies.

top left: Bohana exclosure in Konso, restrored section · top right: Right is exclosure and left planted, area Sodo · left and right: Woodlot, Chiro Kuni woreda


given at the Land Systems and Sustainable Management Research Group, University of Bern, Switzerland

Group photo with members of the Land Systems and Sustainable Management research group

Juliana Freitas Beyer, Fatemé Ghafarian and Melvin Lippe attended Living Planet Symposium organized by European Space Agency (ESA) hosted during 22.- 27.06.2025 at the Vienna Conference Center.

Group photo with colleagues from the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) and colleagues from the Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems. From left to right: Niklas Langner (BLE), Katja Oehmichen (TI Forest Ecosystems), Juliana Freitas Beyer, Stefanie Nadler (BLE), Fatemé Ghafarian, Melvin Lippe

The study assesses the potential pathway towards formalising the informal (locally referred to as Jua Kali) wooden furniture microenterprises in Kenya, a vital but often overlooked segment of the informal economy.

Interviewing informal wooden furniture microenterprises in Kenya (locally referred to as Jua Kali)

A literature review to explore how methods to assess substitution effects could be incorporated in a monitoring of the bioeconomy.

Spatial scope of scientific research on Substitution effects within bioeconomy

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