This case study is one of a series of publications produced by the Forest Harvesting, Trade and Marketing Branch of FAO in an effort to promote environmentally sound forest harvesting and engineering practices. The purpose of these studies is to highlight both the promise of environmentally sound forest harvesting technologies as a component of sustainable forest management, and the constraints that must be overcome in order to assure widespread adoption of those technologies.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Mozambique, Chile, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Suriname, Congo, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, Brazil, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Austria
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Bangladesh, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, Laos, Nicaragua, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, India, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, Asia
Section 1 will examine current debates around poverty, vulnerability and livelihood issues related to access to natural resources. Section 2 will describe the main features of the sustainable livelihoods approaches and relate them to current thinking about access to natural resources. Section 3 will describe and categorise the different types of problems and opportunities that the rural poor face with respect to access to natural resources.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Iran, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Nepal, Jordan, Pakistan, Philippines, Libya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, Sudan, Mongolia, Netherlands, Asia
A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksApril, 2002Burkina Faso, Honduras, Peru, Guinea-Bissau, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Cameroon, Indonesia, Mozambique, Laos, Philippines, South Africa, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, India, Paraguay
The damage caused by illegal activities and corrupt practices in the world’s forests is a problem of enormous proportions. In many parts of the world, forest exploitation is dominated by rampant illegal harvesting, large-scale violation of trade regulations both domestically and internationally, fraudulent practices abetted or condoned by government officials and other destructive activities in violation of applicable laws. This paper is concerned with one facet of this complex problem–how important is legislation in the fight against destructive and corrupt forestry practices?
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Tanzania, France, Honduras, Luxembourg, Israel, Ukraine, Denmark, Namibia, Indonesia, Botswana, Brazil, Bolivia, Netherlands, Italy, Norway
(land tenure studies) 1951
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Kenya, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Belarus, Hungary, Germany, China, Ukraine, Indonesia, Poland, Italy, Mexico
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