Who we are

Forestry Solutions Africa

Forestry Solutions Africa is a company invested in the future of sustainable forestry globally with specific focus on Africa.  We strive to meet the passions and needs of the people associated with forests, enabling these forests to produce products while providing communities with sustainable sources of income and livelihoods.

We achieve this through the provision of professional cost-effective solutions to forestry, forest product processing and provide support to other organisations involved in productivity from land.  In line with national sustainable development strategies, we focus on restoration of degraded land back to functional ecosystems and returning land back to full productivity for the provision of ecological functions.

While also meeting the social objectives of these governments, local communities and indigenous people living in these areas.  Forestry Solutions Africa is based in Mauritius with an office in Zimbabwe. The company links into a network of consultants covering most fields of forest management.

Mission

Providing professional and consistent long-term solutions
  • Developing and implementing sustainable solutions to global ecological and social concerns
  • Providing management systems, methodologies and tools to utilise economic development to help protect and restore degraded land. While utilising land areas that people depend on to provide social economic benefits and community upliftment.
  • Ongoing Training on these solutions
  • Consulting on locally adapted solutions that meet our client needs and address global concerns.
  • Partnering with carefully selected specialists who share our ethics, vision, mission and long-term goals.

History

Expansion & Growth

Forestry Solutions Africa was first registered in Mauritius in 2015 with its founders having had over 50 years of experience in land-based resource management and consultancy.  While our consultants are primarily in the forest and timber processing industry in Southern Africa our work experience has extended into other commercial agriculture fields across Eastern and Western Africa.

The company and our consultants have worked with clients in East, West and Southern Africa, reviewing Risk Assessments, undertaking High Conservation Value Assessments, conducting gap analysis of client systems and then assisting clients with preparation for FSC© forest stewardship standards preparation and ongoing management.  We have also undertaken Controlled Wood Risk Assessments and assisted clients in the attainment of their FSC Chain of Custody certification.  We have undertaken evaluations of client’s programs for feasibility to achieving Forest Landscape Restoration. We have assisted clients working with smallholders by developing management systems, policies, procedures and work instructions for forestry and agricultural commodity crops.  This is just a small part of the many projects that we have undertaken.

Expertise

Consultancy Services

Areas we work in are: East, West and Southern Africa.

With specific experience in: Eswatini (Swaziland), Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

International certification standards.
Risk assessment and mitigation.
High conservation value assessment.
Restoration and development in remote rural locations.
Maximising land productivity while ensuring protection of key environmental and social assets.
Development of effective management systems, polices, procedures and work instructions.
Gap analysis considering international best practice or certification standards requirements.
Working with local producers in group formats.

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Our Values
Forestry Solutions Africa has certain key values, such as honesty (integrity and ethics), a positive attitude (find the solutions) and work fulfilment (doing what we love and are passionate about). We believe that we are in the business for the long term and therefore have selected the slogan: “Sustaining tomorrow together”.
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Our Vision
We aim to provide support and be long term partners with entities developing sustainable solutions in the southern hemisphere. Working alongside organisations to develop long term sustainable forestry goals
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Our Mission
Providing long-term solutions to our partners. Developing and implementing sustainable solutions to global ecological and social concerns. Providing management systems. Ongoing Training. Consulting on locally adapted solutions .

“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.”

Baba Dioum, 1968