Authors: Sizer, N.; Downes, D.; Kaimowitz, D.
Publication Research Theme Products and Trade
What futures for the people of the tropical forests?
Publication Year : 1999
The importance of forest products to households living in or near forests has been increasingly recognized. Estimates of numbers of…
Authors: Byron, R.N.; Arnold, J.E.M.
Why do farmers expand their land into forests?: theories and evidence form Tanzania
Publication Year : 1999
This paper examines the causes of agricultural land expansion and deforetstion in Tanzania. In the theoretical section, two different —…
Authors: Angelsen, A.; Shitindi, E.F.K.; Aarrestad, Johnstein
Non-timber forest products markets and potential degradation of the forest resource in Central Africa: the role of research in providing a balance between welfare improvement and forest conservation
Publication Year : 1999
This paper investigates the importance of income generated from marketing selected NWFP in Central Africa., focuses on local markets in…
Authors: Ndoye, O.; Ruiz Perez, M.; Eyebe, A.
Eucalypt plantations
Publication Year : 1999
This paper reviews the historical development of the use of the eucalypt over 200 years, from its curiosity status in…
Authors: Turnbull, J.W.
Plantas Amazonicas de uso medicinal: diagnostico de un sector economico con un potencial de realizacion
Publication Year : 1999
This is a report on the trade of medicinal plants in Peru, the manufacturing industry that relies on these plants,…
Authors: Nalvarte A.W.; de Jong, W.; Dominguez, G.
Acacia mangium plantations in PT Musi Hutan Persada, South Sumatera, Indonesia
Publication Year : 1999
PT Musi Hutan Persada, a forestry company growing wood for pulp in South Sumatra manages about 200 000 ha of…
Authors: Siregar, S.T.H.; Hardiyanto, E.B.; Gales, K.
The CIFOR criteria and indicators generic template
Publication Year : 1999
This manual provides a comprehensive set of criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management based on CIFORs research. This…
Authors: CIFOR C&I Team
Investigating the role of rattan in development: CIFOR research into forest livelihood strategies and the dynamics of forest-related development projects in Indonesia
Publication Year : 1999
Efforts to develop non-timber forest products such as rattan need to consider the dynamic socio-economic context. Changing opportunities and constraints…
Authors: Belcher, B.
Una de gato: fate and future of a Peruvian forest resource
Publication Year : 1999
Uncaria tomentosa and U. guíanensis have been important in traditional healing in many South American countries. These species contain some…
Authors: de Jong, W.; Melnyk, M.; Lozano, L.A.; Rosales, M.; Garcia, M.