Linking FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements to Jobs and Growth
Potential Challenges and Benefits for Small and Medium Sized Forest Enterprises
By Dominic Elson - DFID, Forest TrendsThis brief report discusses the potential impact of the European Commission’s Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) on the extent to which improved investment and business climates supported by VPA programs can support the small and medium forest enterprise (SMFE) sector. Recognizing the important roles that SMFEs play in rural development and the alleviation of rural poverty, […]
Forest Products Trade Between China & Africa
An Analysis of Imports & Exports
By Kerstin Canby, James Hewitt, Luke Bailey, Eugenia Katsigris, Xiufang Sun - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Global TimberRecent reports of China’s efforts to secure access to natural resources in Africa suggest that timber has already become an important traded commodity between China and the African continent. Many hold a general impression that Africa exports a significant and growing amount of timber to China. However, the true magnitude of the China-Africa forest product […]
An Overview of the Market Chain for China’s Timber Product Imports from Myanmar
By Fredrich Kahrl, Horst Weyerhaeuser, and Su Yufang - World Agroforestry Centre, World Agroforestry Centre, World Agroforestry Centre, Forest Trends, DFID, CIFORChina’s annual timber product imports from Myanmar more than tripled between 1997 and 2002. Although imports from Myanmar comprise just over two percent of China’s total timber product imports, the nascent increase in logging activities along the Chinese border in Myanmar has been highly concentrated in natural forests in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, and the […]
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Certification in Complex Socio-Political Settings
Looking forward to the Next Decade
By Michael Richards - Forest TrendsThere is little evidence of certification’s impact on checking illegal logging, corruption and other severe forest governance problems. This is not surprising since these problems derive from problems in the legal, regulatory and policy framework, and public respect for law and order – problems unlikely to be much affected by a market instrument (with a […]
Dependent Documents
Annex 4: Forest Certification in Indonesia
By Marcus Colchester - Forest Peoples Programme, Forest TrendsAnnex 1: La Experiencia Boliviana en la Certificación Forestal
By Henry Moreno Sanjines - Forest TrendsAnnex 2: Brazil Forest Certification Case Study
By Andre de Freitas - IMAFLORA, Forest TrendsAnnex 3: West and Central Africa
Progress and Prospects for Forest Certification
By Mike Packer - Timbmet Group, Forest TrendsAnnex 5: Forest Certification in Malaysia
By Saskia Ozinga - Forest TrendsAnnex 6: The Experience of the Russian Producers’ Group
By Andrey Ptichnikov - Forest TrendsAnnex 7: Priluzye Model Forest Certification Case
By Mikhail Karpachevskiy - Forest TrendsForest Products Trade Between Russia & China
Potential Production, Processing, Consumption and Trade Scenarios
By Steven Northway , Gary Q. Bull - University of British Columbia (UBC), Forest Trends, Rights & Resources Initiative (RRI)This synthesis report depicts future trends in forest products processing, consumption and trade between China and its main suppliers, with a particular focus on Siberia and the Russian Far East. It is based on the findings of the International Forest and Forest Products (IFFP) trade model analysis completed by Northway & Bull 2007. The first […]
Russian Logs in China
The Softwood Commodity Chain & Chinese Economic Development
By Song Weiming, Cheng Baodong, Zhang Shengdong , Meng Xianggang - Forest Trends, DFID, SIDA, Beijing Forestry University, Rights and Resources InitiativeThis paper provides an overview of the commodity-chain process of Russian softwood logs once they enter China, focusing on softwood as the dominant forest products traded from Russia to China. The research then details the economic and social impacts of this trade on local Chinese economies and livelihoods.
Pacific Rim Initiative
A Coordinated Plan for Advancing Sustainable Forestry in the Pacific Rim
By Forest Trends, WWF, Chinese Research Center for Ecological and Environmental EconomicsThe forests of the Pacific Rim are critically important, in both global and local terms, are seriously threatened, and thus merit priority attention from conservationists, governments and private industry. Overall, policy and market failures, inappropriate government subsidies, non-discriminating investments and demand, illegal logging and trade, have all driven over-exploitation and inefficiency in the production and […]
Overview of the Forest Sector in the Russian Far East
Production, Industry and the Problem of Illegal Logging
By Alexander Sheingauz - Economic Research Institute, Forest Trends, DFID, CIFORRussia and China have been bound by long-standing ties since the middle of the 17th century, with mutual trade as an important aspect. It is natural that regions such as the Russian Far East (RFE) and Southeastern Siberia developed firm links with China, because they are the closest neighbors. These relations, particularly in the timber […]
Payment Where It’s Due
By Michael Jenkins, Sara Scherr, and Mira Inbar - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Forest TrendsThe financing and management of natural protected areas has historically been seen as the responsibility of the public sector. However, budgets for government protection and management of forest ecosystem services are declining, as are those from overseas development assistance. At the same time, processes of devolution and decentralization are shifting public responsibility for nature protection, […]
Forest Certification and Communities
Looking Forward to the Next Decade
By Augusta Molnar et al. - Forest TrendsThis review looks at the experience with communities and certification as the first in a series of systematic reviews of certification. The analysis includes an assessment of community experiences with certification to date, an evaluation of the range of direct and indirect impacts on communities in different geographic regions, and an examination of the strategic […]