- Sustainable Forest Management
- Climate Change and Forests

- Sustainable forest management in the tropics and subtropics
- Rehabilitation and management of degraded forest sites
- Natural resource assessment and evaluation
- Economic assessment of natural resource utilisation
- Climate change mitigation and forestry
- Establishment of academic networks, curriculum development
- Community based natural resource management, establishment and training of participatory management bodies
- Project appraisal (M&E, QA/QC)
- Arid-zone ecology
- Wildlife management

- South-East Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia)
- Asia (India, Mongolia)
- Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia)

- Economic sustainability of natural forest management in the tropics (vTI, Vietnam, Cameroon, Brasilia)
- Rehabilitation and management of degraded forest sites (vTI, Malaysia)
- Carbon Forestry Network (vTI & CIFOR)

- Critical Interlinkages between Conservation and Development (CICD, Vietnam)
- Strengthening Scientific Collaboration in Tropical Forestry Research between CIFOR and German Forestry Research Institutions (CIFOR, Indonesia)
- Conservation and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (GTZ, Mongolia)
- Sustainability-options and Need-assessment about increasingly unproductive Shifting Cultivation Systems (Uni Göttingen, Nagaland India)
- Community Forestry in North-Eastern Namibia (KfW/DED, Namibia)
- Assessing the Impact of Forest Utilisation by Adjacent Communities on the structure of Natural Forest Stands (GTZ, Kenya)