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| Malawi’s National Forestry Programme: Priorities for Improving Forestry and Livelihoods |
| Stock Code 9003IIED, IIED 2001 65 pages Price USD 12.00 |
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Malawi’s forests and trees can and should be used to contribute to poverty eradication, a thriving economy and good environmental management. The National Forestry Programme aims to help make this a reality. It consists of a set of agreed priorities-written down in this document-and an ongoing process for achieving them. Major problems stand in the way: forest degradation, excessive demands on existing fuelwood resources, and forest institutions poorly equipped for today’s policies and pressures. But the National Forestry Programme had mapped out the strategies and actions, agreed through a wide participatory process, for takcling these problems. Central government, local government, the private sector, civil socity and the international community should draw on this document to develop specific initiatives and provide the inspiration and dedication to improve forestry and livelihoods in Malawi. |
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| Raising the Stakes: Impacts of Privatisation, Certification and Partnerships in South Africa |
| Stock Code 9062IIED, IIED 2001 130 pages Price USD 18.00 |
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Forestry is a good, if risky, business in South Africa. A handful of private companies, together with government, have dominated a commercial forestry sector based on plantations. Today, world market trends are causing companies to focus on what they do best, and to outsource everything else. Government is privatising its plantations and is pursuing policies aimed at empowering formerly marginalised people. This means that forestry is changing fast. Forest certification is one response to change, and is helping some companies who were already practicing reasonable management, to make further improvements and consolidate their reputations. Another response is to run outgrower schemes. These have been quite good for company business, and have also improved community livelihood assets, but have not yet pulled poor people out of poverty.This report is based on the findings of some 20 sub-studies and widespread consultation in South Africa. It argues that current trends in South African forestry will not miraculously combine to produce a balance of economic efficiency, environmental sustainability and social empowerment. For such a balance to be achieved, a strong vision needs to be generated and spread – involving a new pattern of ownership with an increase in the numbers of medium and small-scale players. |
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| Forest Resources and People in Bulungan |
| Stock Code CIFOR0021, CIFOR 2001 Paperback 184 Pages Price USD 20.00 |
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Elements for a history of settlement, trade and social dynamics in Borneo, 1880-2000. |
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| Genetic Resource Management in Ecosystems |
| Stock Code CIFOR0018, CIFOR 2001 Paperback 42 Pages Price USD 20.00 |
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Report of a workshop organized by CIFOR for the SGRP CIFOR, Bogo, Indonesia, 27-29 June 2000
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| Linking C&I to a code Practice for Industrial Tropical Tree Plantations |
| Stock Code CIFOR0026, CIFOR 2001 Paperback 130 pages Price USD 15.00 |
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As part of the continuing search for practical ways to apply C&I to development, this document is offered to directly provide a link between C&I and a code of practice for sustainable development of large scale tropical industrial plantations. |
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| Social Learning in Community Forests |
| Stock Code CIFOR0025, CIFOR 2001 Paperback 209 Pages Price USD 20.00 |
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Practitioners from eight countries document their experience with the aim of identifying how to characterize social learning, as well as how to improve upon current practice. Multiple approaches are likely if the goal is to reach all the necessary parties and to be relevant to changing conditions over time. |
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| Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems |
| Stock Code CIFOR0017, CIFOR 2000 Paperback 226 pages Price USD 25.00 |
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CIFOR has a mission to contribute to the sustained well-being of people in developing countries, through collaborative strategic and applied research. CIFOR's research on 'Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystem's projects started in 1996. |
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| Foreign Portfolio Investment and Sustainable Development: A Study of the Forest Products Sector in Emerging Markets. |
| Stock Code 7551IIED, IIED 1999 78 pages Price USD 15.00 |
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The increase in private capital flows to the South over the last decade has stimulated an intense debate about the impacts on the development process. Whilst there is particular concern about the negative social and environmental consequences of foreign investment in resource-based sectors such as forestry, the potential contribution that private capital flows could make to sustainable development is being increasingly recognised. This discussion paper examines the issues involved in harnessing a particular type of capital flow, namely portfolio equity, to achieve sustainable development objectives. It reviews recent thinking on this issue, drawing on a case study of the forest products industry with a particular focus on companies registered in Malaysia. The case study tracks the magnitude and sources of portfolio equity flows to the forest products sector in Malaysia, discussing whether any links can be made between such flows and environmental and social performance in the sector. It then considers the justification for, and practicalities of, using portfolio investment as a form of leverage to promote best practice in the forest products sector and to discourage operations with adverse social and environmental impact. |
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| Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forests |
| Stock Code CIFOR0011, CIFOR 1999 Paperback Price USD 15.00 |
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These proceedings describe the experimental basis and preliminary results of CIFOR project 'Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantations'. The research, which is underway at 17 sites in seven countries and involve scientists from 16 institutions, focuses on inter-rotation management. This phase between tree harvesting and replanting for the next rotation is a window of considerable risks as well as opportunites |
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| Contesting Inequality in Access to Forests: Zimbabwe Country Study. |
| Stock Code 7531IIED, IIED 1998 130 pages Price USD 22.50 |
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Inequitable land distribution and anachronistic policies combine to provide the wealthy with incentives for forest land management while the poor are ensnared in a web of contradictory regulations. The state’s control of forestry is now under challenge from alliances in the private sector and civil society. This report describes the initiatives and coalitions that have begun to generate a more widely shared vision of the role of forests and woodlands in Zimbabwe’s development, and sets out the ways in which vision can be turned into reality. |
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| United Nations Environment Programme |
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Earthprint
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| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
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| The United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
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| International Institute for Environment and Development |
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| The World Agroforestry Centre |
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| Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation |
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| Plant Resources of Tropical Africa Foundation |
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| Center for International Forestry Reasearch |
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| World Business Council for Sustainable Development |
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