Project Profile: Kleinhans Fellowship for Community Forestry Research
Our Kleinhans Fellowship supports research that seeks solutions to the challenges faced by the community forestry model.... Continue Reading
Project Profile
September 16, 2025
Kleinhans Fellowship
An archive of information about the Kleinhans Fellowship on the Rainforest Alliance website.
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2023 Kleinhans Fellow will Support Polylepis Forest Restoration Efforts in the Ecuadorian Andes
Alyssa Killingsworth will apply her background in interdisciplinary environmental research and forest restoration to examine the effectiveness of Polylepis restoration efforts in the upper Andes in Ecuador. ... Continue Reading
The Science of Sustainability: Researchers Supporting Forest Communities in Latin America
Meet three of the scientists whose work we have supported through the Kleinhans Fellowship for Community Forestry Research.... Continue Reading
Two New Kleinhans Fellows Will Investigate Forest Governance and Community-Centered Conservation in Latin America
The Rainforest Alliance is pleased to announce two new Kleinhans Fellows for 2021. ... Continue Reading
New Kleinhans Fellow Will Study Rural Forest Governance in Mexico
José Antonio Sierra Huelsz will study the governance of rural forests in Veracruz, a highly deforested state in Mexico. ... Continue Reading
Working Toward Cooperative Non-timber Forest Product Management
As part of the Rainforest Alliance’s Kleinhans Fellowship, researchers with Indiana University and Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) in Brazil examined the importance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for supporting family income and promoting forest conservation in the western Amazon. The project compared seven sites representing one extractive reserve, three agro-extractive settlements, and three colonization […]