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A cut for the poor. Proceedings of the international conference on managing forests for poverty reduction: Capturing opportunities in forest harvesting and wood processing for the benefit of the poor

Year of publication 2007

Pages 268

Author Oberndorf, R.; Dust, P.; Mahanty,S.; Burslem, K.; Suzuki, R.;Forestry Group

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title RAP Publication

Series number 1020-6221|1014-2789|18194591|0428-9560

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) For the past 150 years, commercial timber harvesting in Asia has been the domain of governments and private companies. When valuable timber was at stake local people were typically ignored; if they were involved at all it was usually as wage labourers. To address the challenge of capturing opportunities in forest harvesting and wood processing for the benefit of the poor, FAO and a broad range of partner institutions collaborated in convening this international conference attended by 150 partic ipants from 31 countries from 3 to 6 October 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam. The conference specifically aimed to draw out recent experiences on pro-poor forest harvesting and processing, and to deveop strategies for further enhancing the effective involvement of the poor in these activities. Five themes were highlighted: policies and legislation, economic aspects, forest management modalities and institutional issues, technical aspects and market access. The emerging themes were brought tog ether into a declaration that targets key areas for attention by policy-makers, the private sector, practitioners and communities. This publication provides the proceedings of the workshop including papers on each of the conference themes, as well as the conference declaration.

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