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INRAE scientists and their partners talk about the research, expertise, training and joint management activities carried out together to inform public policy for a multifunctional vision of forests and innovative management options that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation while meeting society’s needs.

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Scientists talk about their public policy support activities
Forest management and biodiversity
Yoan Paillet is working with forestry managers to understand how they use …
Yoan Paillet
Research engineer, INRAE
An information system to support regional projects
“…] The interest shown in ISDT by local and regional authorities has been, and still is, very useful for its development…

Frédéric Berger
Research Engineer specialising in protection forests, head of the COMPET team at…
From the dossier: Information systems to facilitate regional management – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: An information system to support regional projectsMaintaining genetic diversity in forests
“[…] In particular, we are seeking to propose forest management systems that simultaneously guarantee timber production…”

Frédéric Gosselin
Engineer specialising in forest biodiversity and deputy head of the ECODIV department,…
From the dossier: Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Maintaining genetic diversity in forestsOur partners talk about their collaboration with scientists
Company/Public research and the Ministry for forest reproduction…
“Through the GIE SFA, Vilmorin contributes to the management of seed orchards, harvesting and …

Richard Hébras
Vilmorin-Mikado – Improved Forest Seeds
From the dossier: Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Company/Public research and the Ministry for forest reproduction…Scientific knowledge for the sustainable forest management office (MASA) and forest reproductive material
“I trained as an agronomist and have held a number of positions in various agricultural sectors at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and …

Élisabeth Van de Maele
French Ministry of Agriculture and Food
From the dossier: Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Scientific knowledge for the sustainable forest management office (MASA) and forest reproductive materialThe ONF, a partner supported by science for orchards for the reproduction of forestry material
“I’ve been working in the Seeds and Plants sector since 1981, as manager of the La Joux drying plant, and since then I’ve …

Joël Conche
French National Forestry Office (ONF)
Trees and forests in our dossiers at the interface between science and public policy

Thematic dossier
Regional natural parks and INRAE, a partnership for regional transition
The regional nature parks (PNR), set up in 1967 and now numbering 58, are important partners for INRAE. This partnership …

Thematic dossier
Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests
Thanks to French public policies focused on reforestation through planting, France has increased its forest area by …
Trees and forests projects
CoForMO project: feasibility study for the use of a mobile data collection and centralisation tool
AFD was asked to support the Communauté Forestière du Moyen-Ouémé (CoForMO) in Benin on a project financed by the French Global Environment Facility (FGEF) to assess the relevance and feasibility of using mobile data collection and centralization tools to improve the monitoring system. As part of this project, based on the CoForMO inventories, the Laboratoire…
Project leader(s) :
Julien Ancelin – UE Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée (DSLP), Pays-de-la-Loire
Partner(s) :
AFD/FFEM (DAEM)
GoLFor-DEEPN: Local Forest Governance
Development, Environment and Political Economy in Nepal The GoLFor-DEEPN* project aims to assess the effects of the decentralisation of forest management from the Forest Department to the local level in Nepal on three points: (1) forest cover, (2) collective action within villages and (3) the functioning of the local political system. After decades of deforestation…
Project leader(s) :
François Libois – Unité PjSE, Paris
Partner(s) :
ANR – CNRS; UKAID Projet ANR-18-CE03-0005
P3A: Support Programme for the Implementation of the Association Agreement
Capacity-building implementation of the forestry strategyby the DFG In 2004, the European Commission launched a twinning initiative aimed at helping certain independent states in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region, such as Algeria, which has an estimated forest heritage of 4,100,000 ha, including 1,700,000 ha of forest. But although this heritage offers society an extraordinary…
Project leader(s) :
Christian Dupraz – unité ABSys, Montpellier (INRAE, Cirad, Institut Agro – SupAgro)
Partner(s) :
Consortium Jumelage France/Senior & Italie/Junior, Algérie : DGF, DPVCT et MADR, Italie : MiPAAF, Suède : Skogsstyrelsen, FranceAgriMer

