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DocumentWhere does the wood come from? A matrix model for tracing the origin of wood-based products
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Globally, timber trade flows have increased in recent years. While value is generally added along the entire value chain, certain environmental impacts, such as deforestation and forest degradation, are intrinsically linked to the origin of the roundwood. Bilateral trade statistics are of limited help in providing insights about the location of impacts caused by consumption of wood-based products elsewhere. This is mainly because wood-based products are often imported from countries other than the one from which the roundwood originated. We present a novel method that makes it possible to relate the consumption of wood-based products to the origin of roundwood. Thus, the method helps to provide information on distant environmental impacts of wood consumption. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, Value chain, Deforestation and forest degradation, Research ID: 3623115 -
ArticlePower imbalances, social inequalities and gender roles as barriers to true participation in national park management: The case of Korup National Park, Cameroon
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Forest resource management has undergone profound changes in the last decades, including a tendency to apply participatory approach that seeks to involve local communities. However, the success of the participatory approach tends to remain dependent on the historical and societal context in question. To understand how the participation of forest communities has been changing as a result of the enforcement or non-enforcement of forest management practices, we carried out a study in Cameroon’s Korup National Park, with villages within and outside the park that continue to utilise the resources in the park. The empirical research included focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews in three communities and key informant interviews with selected community members, government officials, and non-governmental organisations involved in the park’s management. Research findings show that although the forest management system has changed in various policy documents, over the past years from a top-down to participatory approach, a centralised state system is still operational in the national park, with participatory approaches used merely as a legitimizing tool. We show how the existing horizontal power relations (such as gender roles within the communities) and vertical power relations (such as government-community dimensions) simultaneously impact the outcomes of participatory approaches on the ground. Finally, our case shows how the existing governance structures continue to reproduce inequalities and exclusions that originated from the colonial times and through path dependency still influence livelihoods and day-to-day survival of people in the communities ID: 3617612 -
ArticleOpportunities and limitations of non-wood forest products in the participatory guarantee systems of the plurinational state of Bolivia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Non-Wood Forestal Products (NWFP) offer regular incomes for collectors, producers in developing countries and they are considered as a livelihood strategy at tropical areas. In this study, the use of tropical seeds to elaborate handicrafts is an example how these seeds are collected at the tropics, transformed and sold to final consumers. For this study, we selected the Value Chain Approach (VCA) to identify the involved actors, the values of collections, processing and consumption along the chains. These four tropical seeds value chains were: Abrus precatorius, Jacaranda mimosifolia, Chamaedora elegans, and Dypsis lutescens. The objective was to identify the opportunities and limitations of the NWFP in the Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) which are acknowledged into the Law 3525/2007 for the Promotion of the Organic Agriculture at The Plurinational State of Bolivia. There are no previous studies on Participatory Certification for NWFP at national level. The study was located at the secondary forest of the Valle del Sacta UMSS-Tropico unit. This study took place from January to November 2013. The major results were: women are much more involved into the NWFP collection and processing tasks as well as in the consumption stage; Processors earn the twice than collectors due to the value adding tasks in order to produce a new product such as earrings, necklaces and others; the need to develop a NWFP seal through the PGS; the development of a tropical seed bank to supply the increasing demand during the whole year; and the need to involve a financial service provider with the two technical services such as the UMSS1 and CAPROECO2. The principal limitations were: the lack of ecologic information of the seed producing species; the lack of a custody chain in order to keep a control and monitoring of the activities along the chains; and the lack of market information for the real supply and demand. Keywords: Non-Wood Forestal Products, Tropical Seeds, Handicrafts, Value Chains Approach, Participatory Guarantee ID: 3481717 Systems
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