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 […]
Beyond Timber
Certification of Non-Timber Forest Products
By Patrica Shanley, Alan Pierce , Sarah Laird - Forest Trends, CIFOR, People and Plants InternationalNon-timber forest products (NTFPs) are critical to rural livelihoods in both temperate and tropical areas. They provide communities with important subsistence resources like medicine, food and shelter, as well as a source of cash income. NTFPs are also part of large regional and international markets, and for centuries products such as spices, medicinal plants, fragrances […]
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Customs, Concessionaires and Conflict
Tracking Cambodia's Forestry Commodity Chains and Export Links to China
By Keith Barney - YCAR, Forest Trends, CIFOR, DIFID, Asia Pro Eco ProgrammeCambodia has obviously experienced some difficulty in implementing an effective framework of sustainable forest management. Indeed, the Cambodian forest sector can be considered a paradigmatic example of the close links between vast resource wealth on the one hand, and structural conflict and rural violence on the other. From the early to the mid-1990s, Cambodia’s illegal […]
For Services Rendered
The Current Status and Future Potential of Markets for the Ecosystem Services Provided by Tropical Forests
By Sara Scherr, Andy White, Arvind Khare - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, International Tropical Timber AssociationThe past decade has seen the widespread emergence of markets and other payment schemes for forest ecosystem services – such as watershed protection, biodiversity protection and carbon sequestration -around the world. At a global scale, several recent reviews indicate that these activities are nascent and still limited in scope and scale, but that they may […]
China’s Forest Product Exports
An Overview of Trends by Segment and Destinations
By Xiufang Sun, Nian Cheng, Kerstin Canby - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Chinese Center for Agricultural Policy, Center for International Forestry Research, DFIDIn only 7 years, China’s timber product exports have tripled in volume and increased fourfold in value. The total volume of all forest product exports – including both timber and pulp and paper products – is now one-third of China’s total forest product import volume. The total volume of only primary timber products (excluding pulp […]
A New Agenda for Forest Conservation and Poverty Reduction
Making Markets Work for Low-Income Producers
By Sara J. Scherr, Andy White, David Kaimowitz - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, CIFORThe future of the world’s forests and the future of millions of the world’s poorest people are inextricably linked. Rural poverty is concentrated in many areas where the world’s biodiversity is most threatened. More than a billion people now live within the world’s 19 forest biodiversity “hotspots” and population growth in the world’s tropical wilderness […]
Case Studies of Markets and Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Water Services from Forests
This paper examines existing market and financial mechanisms that are being used to provide hydrological services from watersheds and to assist forest owners and policymakers in assessing the advisability and feasibility of using such mechanisms.
Forestry in China
Policy, Consumption, and Production in Forestry's Newest Superpower
By Jintao Xu, Andy White, Gary Bull, Sten Nilsson, eds. - Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Forest Trends, University of British Columbia, IIASAChina’s forest market is one of the largest in the world in terms of production, consumption, and imports of wood products. Its large forest estate and massive population has meant that it has also for some time been a leading nation in terms of the number of processing plants, number of people employed in the […]
Dependent Documents
An Assessment of China’s Forest Resources
By Gary Bull , Sten Nilsson - University of British Columbia, IIASA, Forest TrendsChina’s Pulp and Paper Sector
An Analysis of Supply-Demand Trends and Medium-Term Projections
By Dequan He , Chris Barr - China Economic Consulting, Inc, CIFOR, Forest TrendsChina’s Development of a Plantation-based Wood Pulp Industry
Government Policies, Financial Incentives, and Investment Trends
By Chris Barr , Christian Cossalter - World Agroforestry Centre, CIFOR, Forest TrendsChina’s Forest Sector Markets
Policy Issues and Recommendations
By Sten Nilsson, Gary Bull, Andy White, Jintao Xu - IIASA, University of British Columbia, Forest Trends, CCAPUnderstanding the Chinese Forest Market and Its Global Implications
By Jintao Xu , A. White - Chinese Agricultural Policy, Forest TrendsThe China Forest Products Trade
Overview of Asia-Pacific Supplying Countries, Impacts and Implications
By Eugenia Katsigris, Gary Bull, Andy White, Chris Barr, Keith Barney, Yati Bun, Timothy King, Alexey Lankin, Anatoly Lebedev, Phil Shearman, Alexander Sheingauz, Fredrich Kahrl, Yufang Su, Horst Weyerhaeuser - Forest Trends, University of British Columbia, Forest Trends, Center for International Forestry Research, York University, Foundation for People and Community Development, Forest Information Systems, Far Eastern Ecoregional Project, Worldwide Fund for Nature, Bureau for Regional Oriental Campaigns, University of Papua New Guinea, Economic Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, World Agroforestry Centre, World Agroforestry Centre, World Agroforestry CentreChina’s Collective Forestlands
Contributions and Constraints
By Guangping Miao , R. Anders West - FEDRC, Forest TrendsMarkets for Biodiversity Services
Potential Roles and Challenges
By Michael Jenkins, Sara J. Scherr, and Mira Inbar - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Forest TrendsIn recent decades, several factors have stimulated those concerned with biodiversity conservation services to begin exploring new market-based instruments. The model of public finance for forest and biodiversity conservation is facing a crisis as the main sources of finance have stagnated, despite the recognition that much larger areas require protection.