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Book (stand-alone)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 2007
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No results found.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. -
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 AvailableBook (stand-alone)Proceedings of the regional workshop on forests for poverty reduction: can community forestry make money? 2004
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No results found.The proceedings of a workshop held from 1 to 2 September 2003 in Beijing, China gathered over 60 experts from 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and from international organizations. The workshop examined the opportunities that community forestry can offer in alleviating poverty for people living in forest-dependent communities. For centuries forests have been providing subsistence as well as income to the communities living in and near them. Forests therefore can be an effective resource b ase for alleviation of poverty in rural areas. New and innovative means have to be formulated so that community forestry can become a major source of income, particularly to marginalized communities. Sustainable management, marketing, processing and value addition to forest products are some areas for further exploration. This publication is a compilation of the experiences of many countries in the Asian region in implementing community forestry.
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