At the Supply Edge
Thailand's Forest Policies, Plantation Sector, and Commodity Export Links with China
By Keith Barney - York University, Forest Trends, CIFOR, YCAR, DFID, Asia Pro Eco ProgrammeThis study on Thailand’s forestry sector was commissioned by CIFOR and Forest Trends as part of a wider effort to address an information gap regarding Asia’s forestry and plantation forestry industries as well as regarding the emerging trade linkages between East and Southeast Asia. This report on Thailand’s forest sector is one of three studies […]
Navigating the Border
An Analysis of the China-Myanmar Timber Trade
By Fredrich Kahrl, Horst Weyerhaeuser, Su Yufang - World Agroforestry Centre, World Agroforestry Centre, World Agroforestry Centre, Forest Trends, CIFOR, DFIDIn addition to socio-economic pressures, the combination of insufficient regulation in China and political instability in northern Myanmar has exacted a high ecological price. The uncertain regulatory and contractual environment has oriented the border logging industry toward short-term harvesting and profits, rather than investments in longer-term timber production. Degradation in Myanmar’s border forests will have […]
Strategies for Strengthening Community Property Rights Over Forests
Lessons and Opportunities for Practitioners
By Andy White, and Alejandra Martin - Forest Trends, Forest TrendsTenure security has recently become a central concern of poverty, forest conservation and human rights advocates alike. Poverty experts now recognize that the world’s poor are disproportionately located in rural areas and strongly dependent upon forest resources for their survival. Recent studies indicate that about 80 percent of the extreme poor, those living on less […]
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Developing Markets for the Ecosystem Services of Forests
By Ian Powell, Andy White, and Natasha Landell-Mills - Forest Trends, Forest TrendsAs human demands increase and natural resources become scarcer, those who bear the costs of degradation – such as downstream water utilities, local governments, private insurers and society as a whole – are exploring opportunities to reduce costs by financing forest conservation. At the same time, some forest owners are seeking compensation for the costs […]
Forest Product Exports from the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia to China
Status and Trends
By Anatoly Lebedev - Bureau for Regional Outreach Campaigns, Forest Trends, CIFOR, Pacific Institute of Geography, WWF, DFIDSince 2001, China has been a top destination of Russian forest product exports to the Asia-Pacific region. The foreign economic and trade liberalization that began in Russia in the mid-1990s – combined with the high demand for timber imports into China due to the Chinese domestic logging ban starting in 1998 – has stimulated strong […]
Central Plans and Global Exports
Tracking Vietnam's Forestry Commodity Chains and Export Links to China
By Keith Barney - York University, Forest Trends, CIFOR, YCAR, DFID, Asia Pro Eco ProgrammeAfter suffering forest cover declines of 185,000 ha per year from 1976 until 1990, Vietnam is attempting to stabilize deforestation trends, restructure the forest industry and the land tenure system, and move aggressively into fast-growing plantations. Reforestation of degraded forest land, natural regeneration of logged forest areas and more effective forest protection are key components […]
Making Environmental Markets Work
Lessons from Early Experience with Sulphur, Carbon, Wetlands, and Other Related Markets
By Ricardo Bayon - Forest TrendsEver since the passage of the 1990 amendments to the US Clean Air act and the creation of a market in sulfur dioxide (SO2), it has become clear that market mechanisms can be effectively used to achieve environmental policies. But markets are neither infallible nor automatic. They have blind spots and they need to be […]
Who Owns the World’s Forests? Forest Tenure and Public Forests in Transition
By Andy White, and Alejandra Martin - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Center for International Environmental LawSince the late 1980s, some governments of major forested countries have begun to reconsider and reform forest ownership policies. These transitions are driven by three primary considerations. First, governments are increasingly aware that official forest tenure systems in many countries discriminate against the rights and claims of indigenous people and other local communities. Although the […]
Amendment To The U.S. Lacey Act:
Implications For Vietnamese Forest Products Exporters
By Juge Gregg, Amelia Porges - Sidley Austin LLP, Sidley Austin LLP, Forest TrendsA new law gives the U.S. government the power to fine, and even jail, individuals and companies who traffic in illegally harvested wood products. The U.S. government can even use this law, called the Lacey Act, to impose significant penalties on individuals and companies who do not realize that their wood is tainted. This new […]
Dependent Documents
Điều chỉnh Đạo luật Lacey của Hoa Kỳ
Ý nghĩa đối với các đơn vị xuất khẩu lâm sản của Việt Nam
By R. Jude Gregg, Amelia Porges - Sidley Austin LLP, Sidley Austin LLP, Forest TrendsMaking Markets Work for Forest Communities
By Sara J. Scherr, Andy White, and David Kaimowitz - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Center for International Forestry ResearchDevelopment assistance efforts in recent years have focused on forests as “safety nets” for low-income forest dwellers. These efforts emphasize access to forest resources for the poor to meet their subsistence needs. But much less has been done to help local people exploit their forest assets in a sustainable manner to take advantage of the […]