FAO Forestry Paper 145
Best practices for improving law compliance in the forest sectorFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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2. Illegal activities in the forest sector and their root causes
Root causes of illegal activities
3. Towards a strategy for better law compliance in the forest sector
Consequences of illegal activities and corruption
4. Rationalizing the policy and legal environment
Assessing the underlying causes of non-compliance
Increasing clarity, transparency and consistency of forest and
forest-related legislation
Minimizing bureaucracy, streamlining legal procedures and simplifying regulations
Securing forest land ownership rights
Ensuring that in-country industrial capacity does not exceed
sustainable supplies
Improving cross-sectoral linkages and collaboration
Increasing the competitiveness of legal operations
Enhancing the capacity of the judiciary to act effectively on forestry
law matters
5. Building institutional capacity for law compliance
Increasing public forest administration focus
Increasing operational capacity to detect and suppress forest crime
Improving interagency linkages
Public-private partnerships in forest law enforcement
Access to international support
6. Improving data and knowledge
Monitoring and assessment of forest resources
Establishing standards of legality
Improving data and knowledge for preventing forest crime
Improving data and knowledge for detecting forest crime
Improving data and knowledge for detecting illegal international
trade in wood products
7. The political economy of forest sector law compliance
Understanding power relationships
Building wide support for reforms