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Andean Countries: A Strategy for Forestry. Case Studies, Volume II of V: Bolivia

Programmes and Projects

Year of publication 2006

Pages 70 p.

Author Owen, R.;Pacheco, P.;Mohor, S.

Publisher FAO/WB ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This report was prepared within the framework of the FAO/World Bank Cooperative Programme of the Investment Centre. This study has two overarching goals. First, it provides a critical review of the main features, threats, and challenges faced by forests and forestry in Bolivia regarding the provision of goods and environmental services, and their implications for economic growth, and people’s well being. Second, it offers some key elements contributing to the formulation of a national strate gy aimed at sustainable development of Bolivian forestry. By so doing it provides inputs for a blueprint strategy of the World Bank that seeks to determine which might be the critical actions for helping to achieve sustainable forestry management in the Andean countries. The World Bank forestry policy, launched in 2002, provides general guidelines for the World Bank’s investment support in the forestry sector. This policy, however, needs to be complemented by some country-specific strategies. Th is document helps to such effort by assessing the Bolivian case.The specific objectives of this document are: (1) to carry out an initial assessment of the forest resource-base in the country, and the dynamics underpinning forest management, (2) to critically examine the contents of current forest policy and their implications, and some inter-sectoral linkages, (3) to offer an assessment of the main obstacles impeding the achievement of sector policy objectives, (4) to examine forest policy priorities as stated in the country’s development strategies, and other related legislation, and (5) to suggest relevant areas of interventions harmonizing them with the World Bank priorities. It is expected that the sum of these different objectives will contribute to the design of alternatives for forestry investment in the country that could play an effective role in stimulating an environmentally sound and equitable economic expansion to contribute to poverty alleviation in rural areas.

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