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Knowledge | Forests and Rural Livelihood in the Kyrgyz Republic - Development Potentials
01.25.12The reports' findings should help inform implementation of government and donor interventions to improve forest management, with a focus on the relationships between State Forest Enterprises inherited from the Soviet era (lezkozes) and local villagers in harvesting timber and NTFPs. In particular, the formulation of specific recommendations for overcoming policy and value chain problems should help increase the benefits that communities derive from forests and their products.
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Knowledge | National Timber Yield Tables for Mahogany
01.17.12Accurate conversion factors for standing timber and export grade sawn wood are crucial for the effective implementation of the CITES convention. With technical assistance from Intercooperation and PROFOR's FLEG team, Guatemala has developed national yield tables and volumetric conversion factors for mahogany.
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Field Notes | Simple and effective, VERITAS calculator could complement FLEG-Trade work
01.17.12PROFOR has uploaded a new tool on its website which should be of interest to a variety of exporters, wood associations and specialists: the VERITAS Timber Volume Calculator. This product could potentially be used globally by forest stakeholders to complement verification of timber legality and chain of custody initiatives -- by helping to identify red flags or anomalies in timber flow data and accounts.
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Knowledge | South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America
12.19.11The experience of payments for environmental services (PES) systems set up in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador in the last decade provides valuable insights for shaping REDD+ strategies in participating countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Between them, these programs are currently helping to conserve over 3 million hectares of forests. Their experience shows how to make PES work, but also -- problems to avoid.
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News & Events | Dry Forests Symposium
12.13.11This one-day symposium provided a global platform for representatives from the research and development sector to openly discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in the sustainable use of dry forests, within broader agricultural landscapes.
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Field Notes | Wangari Maathai Tribute Film
12.13.11To commemorate and honor the life of Professor Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Laureate who died earlier this year, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) opened Forest Day 5 with a short and moving video about her work.
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Knowledge | Mobilizing Private Investment in Trees and Landscape Restoration in Africa
11.16.11Despite the very considerable body of on-farm experience which has been gained in testing agroforestry and other tree-based technologies for their impact on increasing productivity and on rural income generation, investment in agroforestry, tree planting and landscape restoration has been lagging. This activity aimed to shed light on potential private investment opportunities and identify policy, regulatory and institutional constraints that could be lifted to help tap this potential.
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Knowledge | Auditing Timber Supply to the Forest Industry in Guatemala
11.09.11This activity, completed in June 2010, produced analysis, recommendations and programs that are helping INAB and supporting the Guatemalan government's efforts to combat illegal activities in the forest sector. Read the technical manual and a report on the pilot program to verify timber supply -- in Spanish -- on this page.
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Field Notes | Giving Every Tree an ID
08.01.11Once transformed into an amorphous bundle of planks, wood can be hard to identify let alone certify as legal or sustainably-harvested. The ambition of Double Helix Tracking Technologies is to apply genetics to forests and the timber supply chain.
