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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2011

    Policymakers should recognise the size and value of the woodfuel sector and its importance to many people. Harvesters and producers need better access to trees and land to promote better management and reduce conflicts. The tax system for woodfuel should be revised to be transparent and pragmatic. Woodfuel from plantation forests and agroforestry should be favoured over woodfuel from valuable or threatened tree species. More attention should be paid to energy-efficient charcoal kilns and cooking stoves, as well as activities to promote their use.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2011

    Wetlands are important areas for social, cultural and economic

    benefits for local communities living in and around them. The Nile Basin

    region is endowed with rich and diverse wetlands supporting the

    livelihoods of millions of people covering 3% of the total Nile Basin area.

    Unfortunately, national and regional scale policies aimed at wetlands

    management in the Nile Basin region have not been inclusive of

    structures/frameworks or approaches that would contribute to

    evaluation of wetland ecosystem services to guide wise use of the

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2011
    Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    Ethiopia?s economy and majority of the people?s livelihoods are dependent on agriculture. To develop the socioeconomy of Ethiopia and eradicate poverty, the policy and interventions should focus on agriculture as an entry point. In line with this, the government, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs and various institutions share the concepts and priorities identified in the ?Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP).?

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    Central America, South America

    En los paisajes tropicales de América Latina están teniendo lugar importantes transformaciones con consecuencias sobre el desarrollo económico y el cambio climático. Los cambios en los territorios ocurren no solo debido a las políticas y mercados nacionales sino también a las dinámicas de mercado globales vinculadas a un rol creciente de los comercializadores e inversionistas transnacionales.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    Cameroon

    In 1994 Cameroon adopted a new forest law that focussed on the large-scale, export-oriented industrial forest sector while timber produced through small-scale logging for the domestic market was ignored, even in official statistics, and is generally produced without a valid permit. As Cameroon prepares to implement the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) it recently signed with the European Union, promising a legal framework for all national timber production, this occasional paper presents a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the country’s domestic timber market.

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