This meeting will seek to create an action plan for the miombo woodlands for the next three years focused on: drivers of land-use change; restoration; adaptation to climate change; socio-ecological relationships; and forest governance. The miombo woodlands are the most extensive warm dry forest type in southern Africa, covering 2.7 million square kilometers that span seven countries. They play a critical ecological, economic and social role, supporting, for example, the livelihoods of more than 65 million people in the region. The meeting is being convened by the Miombo Network, along with the Eduardo Mondlane University, the Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Program on Forests (PROFOR), the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training, and the World Bank. The Miombo Network fosters collaborative efforts in land cover monitoring and management.  

dates: 27-29 July 2016  
venue: Eduardo Mondlane University  
location: Maputo, Mozambique  
e-mail: miombo16network@gmail.com  
www: http://www.profor.info/events/restoring-socio-ecological-and-socio-economic-relationships-miombo-region
 http://www.profor.info/sites/profor.info/files/docs/Miombonetwork_meeting2016.pdf