Current projects in Forestry

FST/2004/050 - Value-adding to Papua New Guinea agroforestry systems

FST/2004/055 - Domestication and commercialisation of Canarium indicum in Papua New Guinea

FST/2004/057 - Enhancing on-farm incomes through improved silvicultural management of teak and paper mulberry plantations in Luang Prabang Province of Lao PDR

FST/2005/089 - Improved silvicultural management of Endospermum medullosum (whitewood) for enhanced plantation forestry outcomes in Vanuatu

FST/2006/087 - Optimising silvicultural management and productivity of high-quality acacia plantations, especially for sawlogs

FST/2006/088 - Promoting diverse fuelwood production systems in Papua New Guinea

FST/2006/117 - Improving added value and small medium enterprises capacity in the utilisation of plantation timber for furniture production in Jepara region

FST/2006/120 - Increasing downstream value adding in Papua New Guinea's forest and wood products industry

FST/2007/020 - Improving silvicultural and economic outcomes for community timber plantations in the Solomon Islands by interplanting with Flueggea flexuosa and other Pacific agroforestry species

FST/2007/052 - Improving governance, policy and institutional arrangements to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD)

FST/2007/078 - Development of a Papua New Guinea timber industry based on community-based planted forests: design and implementation of a national germplasm delivery system

FST/2007/119 - Mahogany and teak furniture: action research to improve value chain efficiency and enhance livelihoods

FST/2008/007 - Advanced breeding and deployment methods for tropical acacias

FST/2008/010 - Development and delivery of germplasm for sandalwood and whitewood in Vanuatu and northern Australia

FST/2008/030 - Overcoming constraints to community-based commercial forestry in Indonesia

FST/2009/016 - Improving the Papua New Guinea balsa value chain to enhance smallholder livelihoods

FST/2009/051 - Increasing productivity and profitability of Indonesian smallholder plantations

FST/2010/013 - Developing markets and products for the Papua New Guinea Canarium nut industry

FST/2010/034 - Agroforestry for livelihoods of smallholder farmers in north-western Vietnam

FST/2010/044 - Community forestry in Papua New Guinea

FST/2011/028 - Biological control of Eucalypt pests overseas and in Australia

FST/2011/058 - Facilitating the establishment of charcoal producer groups in Papua New Guinea