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Teak Tree Collaterals: Lessons Learned from Regional Experiences in Asia

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
South-Eastern Asia

This brief gives an overview of how using standing teak as a collateral asset for obtaining loans from banks and credit institutions can create opportunities for smallholder farmers as well discussions on the implementation of reforms covering provincial forest tenure and forest asset mortgaging in China that offers a number of best practices and challenges that can be considered in the impleme

Manually Operated Sulkies

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Global
South-Eastern Asia

Two-wheeled manual sulkies were developed in the 1970s for use in the tropics by forest development projects of mainly Scandinavian countries. In its final development stage, a sulky with double bogie wheels was designed in 1985 in Finland and applied widely in east African countries and the Philippines under the FINNIDA APPRODEV project.

Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management and Bioenergy Markets: Lessons Learned in Cambodia

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Cambodia

This brief outlines the lessons learned from developing CF-MPs and business plans for 30 community forestry sites in Cambodia, trial of three Alternative CF Modalities (ACFMs): Community Conservation Forestry, Community-based Production Forestry and Partnership Forestry; and implementation of four Commune Land Use Plans (CLUPs).

Improving Incomes of Local People through the Sustainable Harvesting of Timber: Findings from Community-based Production Forest Project in Keo Seima, Cambodia

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Cambodia

This comprehensive report is a review of the ‘Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management and Bioenergy Markets to Promote Environmental Sustainability and to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Cambodia’ (SFM) project, summarizing the technical reports prepared by the individuals and organizations involved.

Agricultural Tractors

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Global
South-Eastern Asia

Agricultural tractors with attached winches, grapple tongues and log trailers with cranes are the key machines for small-scale forestry work in developed countries. In the near future, a similar role is also foreseen in small-scale community forestry work in Asia and the Pacific.

Timber Ownership Certification and Opportunities for Smallholder Credit: Case Study on Teak Smallholdings in Bokeo, Lao PDR

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Laos

The report describes the process of developing a certificate that is issued by the Lao PDR government to recognize user rights over one rotation period and to facilitate the legal harvesting and transport of timber from teak plantations. Financial valuation was added to the certificates to test the possibility of using standing timber value as loan collateral in local microfinance schemes.

Appropriate Small-scale Forest Harvesting Technologies for Southeast Asia: Log Chutes

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Training Resources & Tools
Novembro, 2015
South-Eastern Asia

Wooden chutes for big, heavy timber built with round logs can provide permanent transportation solutions. However, their use in tropical natural forests cannot be generally recommended due to the fact that their construction needs specially trained labor and that extractable volumes are often very low, in most cases not exceeding 20-30 meter (m)3 per harvest cycle.

Assessing Opportunity and Implementation Cost of Forest Certification for Ecosystem Services in Viet Nam

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Vietnam

This report is an output of the Forest Certification for Ecosystem Services (ForCES) project. The ForCES project is implemented by the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation in Vinh Tu commune, Quang Tri province and the Huong Son Forest State Company, Ha Tinh province.

Trees as Loan Collateral: Valuation Methodology for Smallholder Teak Plantations

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Reports & Research
Novembro, 2015
Laos

This brief reviews a teak tree valuation methodology that attempts to ameliorate the risks inherent to borrowers and banks as well to ensure that community forestry principles and aims to improve livelihoods and capabilities are adaptable to existing social and economic pressures.