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Articles written by Probos, in trade journals and newspapers.

Bigi Poika becomes Suriname’s first FSC-certified community

Eli Prins, Mark van Benthem, oktober 2025

Bigi Poika becomes Suriname’s first FSC-certified community: “A milestone for the community, for Suriname, and beyond.”

On 14 October 2025, the Surinamese community of Bigi Poika received its Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate from the President of Suriname, Jennifer Simons. With this achievement, Bigi Poika becomes the first community in Suriname to obtain this international recognition for sustainable forest management. This milestone not only marks significant progress for forest management in Bigi Poika, but also demonstrates the potential for other communities — in Suriname and abroad — to sustainably manage and protect their own forests. It opens new opportunities for accessing highquality international timber markets that increasingly value sustainability, transparency, and traceability.

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Combining short rotation willow coppice with free range chickens – experiences from experiments on farm level in the Netherlands

Martijn Boosten & Joyce Penninkhof
Proceedings of the 4th European Agroforestry Conference. Agroforestry as Sustainable Land Use. 28-30 May 2018, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, pp. 424-427

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Reichlich FSC-Holz in Suriname

Mark van Benthem (Probos) & Sietze van Dijk (Environmental Services & Support, ESS)
Holz-Zentralblatt, No. 22, June 2016

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Introducing trees in dairy and poultry farms. Experiences dairy and poultry farmers’ networks in The Netherlands.

Monique Bestman, Nick van Eekeren, Boki Luske (Louis Bolk Institute), Mark Vonk (fruit grower), Emiel Anssems (arable farmer), Martijn Boosten (Probos) & Miriam van Bree (Bionext)
Proceedings Practitioners’ Track, IFOAM Organic World Congress 2014, ‘Building Organic Bridges’, 13-15 October, Istanbul, Turkey

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