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Community-based tree and forest product enterprises: market analysis and development, booklet C

Assess the existing situation

Year of publication 2003

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department);Forestry Economics and Policy Division;Forest Products Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The aim of Phase 1 of the MA&D process is to develop an understanding of the key issues of the existing situation: What are the potential enterprises? What are the available resources and products? How do existing market systems operate? By the end of the phase, it should be possible to identify and prioritize viable products.

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