Fellowships awarded
New Fellowships awarded at the 2017 Autumn Cycle
Eighteen fellowships were awarded by the International Tropical Organization at the 53rd Session of International Tropical Timber Council. The newest group of fellows represents 15 different producer member countries and includes 6 female fellows. The total amount of the fellowships was US$110,810.72.
ITTO offers fellowships through the Freezailah Fellowship Fund to promote human resource development and to strengthen professional expertise in member countries in tropical forestry and related disciplines. The goal is to promote the sustainable management of tropical forests, the efficient use and processing of tropical timber, and better economic information about the international trade in tropical timber.
2017 Autumn Cycle Fellowship awardees:
Ms. Noraida Abd Wahob Ph.D. in economics research on the impacts of sustainable forest management (SFM) practices on forest certification, plantation and forest products at the Univeristy of Putra in Malaysia
Ms. Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello Doctoral programme in science in the Faculty of Science at Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium
Mr. Roy Oswaldo González Martínez Research internship on the assessment of mortality of some tropical dry forest species due to the intensification of the drought in the Department of Chemistry and Biology at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia
Dr. Tahiana Ramananantoandro Participation to 2018 Joint Convention Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) and the Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS)
Dr. Valère Kolawolé Salako Preparation and publication of a technical guideline for estimating above-ground wood productivity, carbon and carbon dioxide stock of mangrove forests in Benin
Ms. Charlene Jordane Piam Djomo Master research on participatory management and test of domestication of non-timber forest product of plant origin: Scorodophloeus zenkeri Harms, Fabaceae in Cameroon
Mr. Guénolé Géraud Sidoine Mankou Short training course on link between allometry and the function traits of tree species in Central Africa at the Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech of the University of Liège in Liège, Belgium
Dr. Bi Tra Aimé Vroh Ph.D. research on sustainability of timber resource production in the Téné forest of Côte d'Ivoire at the University of Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Mr. Juan Salazar Cevallos Participation to the World Bamboo Congress 2018 in Xalapa, Mexico
Mr. Kofi Adu Gyamfi MSc tropical forestry (field assessment for preparation of dissertation) at the Technical University of Dresden in Dresden, Germany
Mr. Samuel Ayesu Ph.D. in agroforestry at Kwame Nkrumah University in Kumasi, Ghana
Mr. Manjunatha Venkatappa Ph.D. reseach on assessment of land availability for forest restoration in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia
Mr. Shubham Sharma Short training course on climate change adaptation in agriculture and natural resource management at CDI Wageningen University, in the Netherlands
Dr. Pono Wahyudi Preparation of manuscript and publication of the textbook ‘’Mangrove Resources Utilization and Management” at Bintuni bay, Papua Barat in Indonesia
Dr. Abdul Rahim Abdul Samad Online short training course on forest certification modeling in Malaysia and conjoint analysis under the supervision of the Institute for Statistics Education in Virginia, U.S.A.
Ms. Dora Torres Ávila International diploma in biostatistics at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Sandra Natividad Anccasi Lazo XXIX International Intensive Course on International Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests, at CATIE in Costa Rica
Dr. Quy Nam Nguyen DNA barcoding techniques and methodologies at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ITTO offers fellowships through the Freezailah Fellowship Fund to promote human resource development and to strengthen professional expertise in member countries in tropical forestry and related disciplines. The goal is to promote the sustainable management of tropical forests, the efficient use and processing of tropical timber, and better economic information about the international trade in tropical timber.
2017 Autumn Cycle Fellowship awardees:
Ms. Noraida Abd Wahob Ph.D. in economics research on the impacts of sustainable forest management (SFM) practices on forest certification, plantation and forest products at the Univeristy of Putra in Malaysia
Ms. Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello Doctoral programme in science in the Faculty of Science at Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium
Mr. Roy Oswaldo González Martínez Research internship on the assessment of mortality of some tropical dry forest species due to the intensification of the drought in the Department of Chemistry and Biology at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia
Dr. Tahiana Ramananantoandro Participation to 2018 Joint Convention Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) and the Japan Wood Research Society (JWRS)
Dr. Valère Kolawolé Salako Preparation and publication of a technical guideline for estimating above-ground wood productivity, carbon and carbon dioxide stock of mangrove forests in Benin
Ms. Charlene Jordane Piam Djomo Master research on participatory management and test of domestication of non-timber forest product of plant origin: Scorodophloeus zenkeri Harms, Fabaceae in Cameroon
Mr. Guénolé Géraud Sidoine Mankou Short training course on link between allometry and the function traits of tree species in Central Africa at the Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech of the University of Liège in Liège, Belgium
Dr. Bi Tra Aimé Vroh Ph.D. research on sustainability of timber resource production in the Téné forest of Côte d'Ivoire at the University of Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Mr. Juan Salazar Cevallos Participation to the World Bamboo Congress 2018 in Xalapa, Mexico
Mr. Kofi Adu Gyamfi MSc tropical forestry (field assessment for preparation of dissertation) at the Technical University of Dresden in Dresden, Germany
Mr. Samuel Ayesu Ph.D. in agroforestry at Kwame Nkrumah University in Kumasi, Ghana
Mr. Manjunatha Venkatappa Ph.D. reseach on assessment of land availability for forest restoration in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia
Mr. Shubham Sharma Short training course on climate change adaptation in agriculture and natural resource management at CDI Wageningen University, in the Netherlands
Dr. Pono Wahyudi Preparation of manuscript and publication of the textbook ‘’Mangrove Resources Utilization and Management” at Bintuni bay, Papua Barat in Indonesia
Dr. Abdul Rahim Abdul Samad Online short training course on forest certification modeling in Malaysia and conjoint analysis under the supervision of the Institute for Statistics Education in Virginia, U.S.A.
Ms. Dora Torres Ávila International diploma in biostatistics at CATIE in Turrialba, Costa Rica
Ms. Sandra Natividad Anccasi Lazo XXIX International Intensive Course on International Diversified Management of Tropical Natural Forests, at CATIE in Costa Rica
Dr. Quy Nam Nguyen DNA barcoding techniques and methodologies at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph in Toronto, Ontario, Canada