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Who are the women shaping the Integrate Network?

Who are the women shaping the Integrate Network?

Published March 24, 2026 by Rahel Könen

Women’s voices are not optional in forest management – they are essential for its future. By bringing women’s expertise into integrative forest management, we can unlock knowledge that better balances biodiversity, production, and social needs. When women are at the table, forest governance becomes more legitimate and democratic – reflecting the realities of all those who depend on and care for forests. 

On March 8, when the Integrate Network celebrated International Women’s Day, it featured the perspectives of women who actively shape the direction of its network through their work and leadership:

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From Clear-Cutting to Continuity: 11th Integrate Network Annual Meeting

From Clear-Cutting to Continuity: 11th Integrate Network Annual Meeting

Published January 7, 2026 by Silvester Boonen

It was a dark and murky evening as I paved my way through Harcourt Street in Dublin. That’s when I suddenly found myself in a pub – not the kind where a lad or lass would sing a folk song – but rather a cosy, wooden, meeting room turned pub, where I’d stumble across familiar forest faces. Of course, I was in the right place – the social reception of the Integrate Network Annual Meeting! Starting off with a traditional Irish dance workshop, organised by the Integrate chairs, we started our gathering with some artistic engagement and reminisced about our past meeting in Austria. Such a social reception provided fertile ground to dive into an intensive 3-day programme on “Promoting Integrative Forest Management Practices in Managed Forests through Policy, Science & Practice” – reflecting on pioneers in young forest lands and the journey of “a forest culture emerging” in Ireland!

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The Forest Carbon Monitoring project: Tools and insights to combat climate changeForest Carbon Monitoring Project

The Forest Carbon Monitoring project: Tools and insights to combat climate change

Published September 16, 2025 by Rosa Castañeda

Discover how innovative satellite and field-based tools are helping decision-makers protect forests and mitigate climate change, and hear from real users putting them into practice. …

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Video: Science-based policy to protect biodiversity -Insights from the IPBES Nexus AssessmentCLEVER researcher Andrea Pacheco shares insights from the IPBES Nexus Assessment

Video: Science-based policy to protect biodiversity -Insights from the IPBES Nexus Assessment

Published August 14, 2025 by Rosa Castañeda

CLEVER researcher Andrea Pacheco shares insights from the IPBES Nexus Assessment How can we design policies that support biodiversity while also addressing climate change, food…

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What are sustainable economic activities and who defines them? A deep look into EU policy making on sustainable finance and forests – new paper publishedImage by Adobe Stock

What are sustainable economic activities and who defines them? A deep look into EU policy making on sustainable finance and forests – new paper published

Published May 26, 2025 by Georg Winkel

Imagine a world where money would do only good. Imagine a world where investors and companies would consider sustainability aspects in all their decisions. Imagine…

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Video: Making land-use regulations more effective and justEUDR, land use and policy interaction in Brazil

Video: Making land-use regulations more effective and just

Published April 16, 2025 by Rosa Castañeda

Insights from CLEVER Researcher Rafaella F. Ziegert on the EUDR, land-use and policy interaction in Brazil

What happens when global trade regulations meet local realities? In this video interview, Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, a researcher with the CLEVER project and PhD candidate at the University of Freiburg, shares her perspective on the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) — the first transnational policy designed to reduce the EU’s contribution to deforestation and land degradation abroad. While the EUDR aims to protect forests, it may also lead to unintended consequences in producer countries like Brazil, especially when it overlaps or conflicts with existing national policies.

Rafaella draws on her experience conducting environmental impact assessments across Brazil— a vast country with abundant land, yet one that faces intense pressure to meet multiple demands: food production, climate regulation, carbon storage, and mineral extraction. The central challenge? How to manage land use in a way that supports both people and the planet.

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