The COFORD Council for Forest Research and Development is a representative body from the Forestry Sector in Ireland.  The Council advises on the formulation of the national programme on Competitive Forest Research for Development (also known as the COFORD Research Programme) as well as addressing developmental issues in the forest sector including wood supply and demand forecasting at an all Ireland level.  The COFORD research programme is the responsibility of the Research Division of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and funds research of relevance to the forest sector in Ireland.

NEW! Forest Genetic Resources in Ireland authored by the National Consultative Committee on Forest Genetic Resources (pdf 2,354Kb) . This document on Ireland’s forest genetic resources, compiled by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, in collaboration with other departments and agencies, forms Ireland’s input to the compilation of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s first report on the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources. The full report will be presented to the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in 2013. The report provides a benchmark for the conservation and development of forest genetic resources in Ireland.

COFORD Seminar - Forest growth assessment and modelling in Ireland - state of the art, was held on the 15 December at UCD.

The first edition of the popular COFORD publication Forest Fungi in Ireland by Louis Smith and Paul Dowding, which sold out several months ago, is now available in a second revised edition from Government Publications or directly from Forest Sector Development/COFORD.

Presentations at a recent CoFoRD FORFLUX project Advisory Group meeting held 5-6 December 2011, on deposition and biogeochemical cycling in forest ecosystems.