Social forestry network papers from 1985 to 1987. Articles featured in these issues include:

• Social Forestry In 1985: Lessons Learnt and Topics to be addressed by Gill Shepherd
• Farm and Community Forestry by Gerald Foley and Geoffrey Barnard
• The success of Vanuatu's local supply plantation programme in meeting the needs of the nation and its communities by Julian Gayfer
• Social Forestry Research Issues: preliminary problem identification in North-East Thailand by Napoleon Vergara, Charit Tingsabadh, Kersten Johnson, Varun Vidyarthi and Richard Bowen
• Aerial photographs and thematic maps for Social Forestry by Jeff Fox
• The Social Forestry policy design framework: the Hill areas of Uttar Pradesh by Mukul Sanwal
• A hundred recent journal articles on Social Forestry edited by Asmeen Khan
• Comparative Ecology of Pastoral Livestock in Baringo, Kenya by K M Homewood and A V Hurst
• The Reluctant Spouse and the Illegitimate Slave: Marriage, Household Formation and Demographic Behaviour Amongst Malian Tamesheq from the Niger Delta and the Gourma by Sara Randall and Mike Winter
• Limiting Livestock Pressure on Public Rangeland in Niger by G K Perrier
• Notes on Implementation of a Small-Holder Cattle Fattening Co-operative Scheme in Northern Nigeria by Simon White
• Forest Policy and Forest Polities by Gill Shepherd
• Managing Indian Forests: a case for the reform of property rights by Simon Commander
• Forestry for Rural Development in Zimbabwe by John Casey and Kay Muir
• Land Tenure and Agroforestry in the Dominican Republic by Isabel de Ceara
• Mali as a case study of forest policy in the Sahel: institutional constrains on Social Forestry by Chun Lai and Asmeen Khan
• Letting the Piper Call the Tune : Experimenting With Different Forestry Extension Methods in the Northern Sudan by Matthew S Gamser
• Forestry Extension Training in Somalia by Des Mahony.
• Microplanning for Social Forestry: A Description of the System Designed for Karnataka Social Forestry Project, India by P D Hardcastle
• The Management of People's Participation in Community Forestry: Some Issues by D Sen and P K Das
• Forestry Extension : A Review of Key Issues by Julia Falconer
• Trees to Meet Contingencies : Savings and Security for the Rural Poor by Robert Chambers and Melissa Leach
• Approaches to Social Forestry In Western India: Some Aspects of NGO Experience by Parmesh Shah and Andrew Weir
• Involving the Poor in Forest Management: Can it be Done? The Nepal-Australia Project Experience by Mary Hobley
• Household Food Security, Tree Planting and the Poor : The Case of Gujarat by Richard Longhurst
• Gains from Social Forestry : Lessons from West Bengal by Tushaar Shah
• Commons, Trees and the Poor in the Uttar Pradesh Hills by N C Saxena
• Workshop Synthesis: discussion and outcome by Gill Shepherd.