The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) is a joint program of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), whose mission is to enhance environmental management and leadership capacity in the...

From January 26 to 28, 2012, the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters convened practitioners and researchers from government, academia, and environmental and development institutions from around the globe for information exchange on challenges and emerging strategies in...

Considerable reforestation was undertaken around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, very large areas of degraded land and forest still remain present across the tropics. Indeed, these areas continue to increase. Several countries do have experience in undertaking...