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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Mozambique

    This study evaluated the conservation status of tree populations and the impact of illegal logging in the Niassa National Reserve, a huge protected area in northern Mozambique, bordering Tanzania. The Miombo woodland around 8 villages was sampled on 43 transects laid out from log patios showing evidence of felling. Standing trees and stumps of 8 timber species (P. angolensis, A. quanzensis, M. sthulmannii, B. africana, C. imberbe, D. melanoxylon, P. angolensis and S. madagascariensis) were identified, quantified and measured.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Kenya, Nicaragua

    Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria

    “Solidarity in a competing world —

    fair use of resources”

    Prosperity Prospects in Contested Forest Areas: Evidence from

    Community Forestry Development in Guatemala and Nicaragua

    Dietmar Stoian

    1

    , Aldo Rodas

    2

    , Jessenia Arguello

    3

    1

    Bioversity International, Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, France

    2

    Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Guatemala, Natural Resources and Agrotourism,

    3

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Mozambique

    Mozambique's Niassa Reserve contains Africa's best preserved miombo woodlands. Half of the households there gather wild honey from natural hives for consumption and income. However, most collectors used destructive techniques: setting fire to the grasses under the hive tree to create smoke and then felling the tree. Cutting trees to obtain honey was the principal source of tree mortality. Trees grow very slowly, about 0.25 cm diameter at breast hight [dbh] per year, meaning an average hive tree was nearly 200 years old.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Mozambique

    Mozambique's Niassa Reserve contains Africa's best preserved miombo woodlands. Half of the households there gather wild honey from natural hives for consumption and income. However, most collectors used destructive techniques: setting fire to the grasses under the hive tree to create smoke and then felling the tree. Cutting trees to obtain honey was the principal source of tree mortality. Trees grow very slowly, about 0.25 cm diameter at breast hight [dbh] per year, meaning an average hive tree was nearly 200 years old.

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Guatemala

    Whilst community forestry programmes have combined sustainable forestry with community empowerment and poverty alleviation since the late 1970s, the role of intermediary organisations in shaping the technical and political capacities of forest user groups has rarely been systematically studied. The long-term durability of community forestry groups has been linked with the congruence between local and national determinations of tenure rights, and the involvement of local communities in determining the ‘rules' that govern the management of the forests.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Guatemala

    Community forestry (CF) was initiated in the 1970s as a way to empower communities, alleviate poverty and manage forests. Intermediary organisations are considered to have played a critical role in the sustainability and equitability of community forest management. This study analyses a second-tier institution, ACOFOP [Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén], founded in the mid-1990s by local people in the Maya Biosphere Reserve [MBR] of Guatemala. ACOFOP has been

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2016
    Guatemala

    One of the main technical knowledge gaps for sustainable timber production in tropical forests is the lack of reliable information on tree growth, which is indispensable for defining cutting cycles and estimating harvest volumes. We applied dendroecological methods to measure and model the diameter growth (dbh) of mahogany Swietenia macrophylla and cedar Cedrela odorata in humid tropical forests of community-managed concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala. The width of growth rings was determined in increment cores from 32 trees of S. macrophylla and 27 of C.

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