How is the COFORD research programme structured and what are your current leading research projects?
COFORD’s research funding for the period of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-2013 is structured around thirteen programmes covering all stages of the forest production cycle, and addressing crosscutting environmental issues such as climate change. Our approach is to build research expertise and competence by having longer term projects, which reflect the forest life cycle. By moving to five and six year projects we are building research expertise and competence. All of the programmes are led by experienced and respected researchers based in companies in third level institutions. All COFORD’s current projects are listed on our web site www.coford.ie. There are 36 projects underway in areas such as climate change and carbon storage in forests, R&D and demonstration programme in forest energy production and supply, forest planning and modelling (including a major new national field experiment management system and database), transport systems and logistics, forest economics and po
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