17th Commonwealth Forestry Congress

The 17th Commonwealth Forestry Congress focused on the theme "Forestry's Contribution for Poverty Reduction". At the congress, PROFOR and its partners in the initiative to better measure forests-poverty linkages and integrate forests into poverty reduction strategy process presented on progress to date in the development of the methodological framework for assessing forests-poverty linkages and draw linkages to broader national governance processes. CFC website: http://www.cfa-international.org/CFC2005.html