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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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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.
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Field Notes | Counting Trees, Managing Mushrooms
07.14.11A look at the use of ICTs to track tree planting on small farms in Kenya. And a peek at the work behind the new "FairWild" standard developed by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. Both efforts are ultimately about keeping track of trees and plants thanks to much-improved technology.
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Knowledge | Community Forestry Enterprise Competitiveness and Access to Markets in Mexico
06.27.11This activity aims to develop consensus, through a stakeholder-driven process, on a course of action required to position Mexico’s community forestry sector as a high-value provider to niche markets from sustainably managed community forests, delivering both income and biodiversity protection. It has produced a guide in Spanish top evaluating economic and financial returns in community forest projects.
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Field Notes | Indonesia and EU conclude VPA negotiations
05.05.11On May 4th, Indonesia concluded Voluntary Partnership Agreement negotiations with the European Union. This marked the culmination of a long process toward establishing a legality verification system in the country and an important milestone for forest governance reform.
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Knowledge | Large-scale Acquisition of Land Rights for Agricultural or Natural Resource-based Use
02.10.11Large-scale land acquisition attracted considerable interest in the wake of the 2007-08 commodity boom. This global 'land rush' is unlikely to slow given volatile global commodity prices, demand for biofuels, rising incomes, urbanization and population increases. What impact has this rising interest in farmland had so far?
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Knowledge | ASEAN regional FLEG process
07.01.10Work with the ASEAN Regional Knowledge Network has consisted of support for preparation of technical papers, a regional workshop on fleg reporting held in Kuala Lumpur November 2009 and the publication of a guide for country assessment and reporting on FLEG in partnership with FAO in June 2010.
