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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises 1987
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No results found.Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises comprise an important, but neglected, part of the forestry and forest industries sector. They process a large part of the raw materials from the forest and supply some of the main markets for forest products, in particular in the rural areas of developing countries. Our concern in the work reported on in this publication has been to determine the main features, prospects and problems of such small-scale enterprises and what support could enhance their developmental contribution, and therefore the developmental impact of the forest sector. Many small enterprises are currently unstable, and offer little security or prospect of self-reliance for those engaged in them. These problems need to be tackled by promoting viable enterprises run by rural people through effective participatory organizations which can increase peoples' control over their own economic destiny. External supp ort to increase production and efficiency needs to be compatible with those valuable elements of local culture which still have a role to play in the modern context. -
No Thumbnail AvailableProjectJoint ventures in fishery development in the CECAF area
Project for the development of fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic.
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The Council of FAO established, in 1967, the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) for the region from the Strait of Gibraltar to the mouth of the Congo River. Its membership includes African nations along the coast and a number of non-African nations conducting fishing in this general region. The present members are: Cameroon, Congo, Cuba, Dahomey, France, Gabon, Ghana, Greece, Guinea (Republic of), Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea (Republic of), Liberia, Mauritania, Morocc o, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America and Zaire, and Gambia. At the Third Session of CECAF held at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, in December 1972, representatives from the developed countries, members of CECAF, indicated that their governments would provide assistance to African countries members of CECAF for programmes to be coordinated under a regional scheme and an outcome of this was that a fishery development pr ogramme combining UNDP assistance and non-UNDP overseas collaboration was conceived and approved by UNDP on 8 October 1974. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the executing agency for the CECAF Project which covers the period from February 1973 to July 1578. This paper, as well as others in a series referred to as ECAF Pub. Ser., provides information gathered during the duration of the Project. -
No Thumbnail AvailableDocumentSmall-scale forest enterprises 1987In response to government concerns, FAO has begun to develop more information on the nature of small forest enterprises, their contributions to rural incomes, the constraints that hold the small entrepreneur back, and the opportunities that strengthening this sector hold for improved rural incomes. An initial step was the commissioning of a number of case-studies. This was followed by the convening of an expert consultation in Rome in October 1986, on which the lead article by Arnold, Chipeta an d Fisseha in this issue is based, the proceedings of which will be published as an FAO Forestry Paper in late 1987. The other two "theme" articles are a report on charcoaling enterprises in Kenya by M. Kinyanjui and an assessment of the potential of forestry cooperatives by K. Kilander.
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