Dear coordinators within Division 9, next year the IUFRO regional congress will take place in Nairobi (June 25-30). Forest Polic, Governance and Trade is one of the major issues of the congress. This is as well major part of our competence area. For this reason I would like to ask you for active participation in the congress - either with a paper o with an own session.Please find teh detail at the following link. http://fornis.net/content/first-iufro-fornessa-regional-congress We can as well try to organize sessions across research groups and working parties of Division 9 if you are interested in doing so. Please let me know if you consider to take part. With best regards Daniela Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit SLU Unit of Forest Policy P.O. Box 7008 SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden Phone: +46 18 672493 daniela.kleinschmit(a)sprod.slu.se