African participation in international forest processes. Policy Brief No.1

One objective of the Sustainable Forest Management in Africa (SFM) project has been to identify urgent issues and concerns for Africa to give priority to in international forest processes (IFPs), and to promote an increased African participation in these, based on analyses of previous experiences and lessons learnt.Thus, one of the first studies to be commissioned by the project was entitled "Observations on participation by Africa in international forest processes".