Le ministre de la Recherche scientifique et de l’Innovation, Madeleine Tchuinté, a reçu hier en son cabinet, les directeurs généraux du Centre international pour la recherche en agroforesterie (ICRAF), Dennis Garrity, et du Centre international de recherche sur les forêts (CIFOR), Frances Seymour, tous deux arrivés au Cameroun en fin de semaine dernière. La rencontre annoncée comme une simple audience, s’est très vite transformée en séance de travail. Les trois parties ayant été littéralement emportées par l’importance du sujet. L’exploitation judicieuse des ressources forestières, autant pour la conservation de l’équilibre écologique du monde que pour le développement des peuples. C’est à ce défi, contradictoire pour certains, que la coopération entre le Cameroun, à travers les instituts de recherche du MINRESI, l’ICRAF et le CIFOR s’attellent depuis de nombreuses années déjà. Au cours de la rencontre d’hier, le tour de la question sur les orientations de cette vision commune de la gestion des forêts a été fait.

Many homeowners in Southeast Asia use teak "like a bank," said Philippe Guizol, a researcher who frequently works with the Center for International Forestry Research, a conservation organization based in Indonesia. "If you need cash and you have teak in your floor, you just sell it," Mr. Guizol said.

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C.G. Moghe is well justified in calling for a careful discussion of Indonesia’s biofuel drive (The Jakarta Post, March 6), but some scientific clarification is required in the interests of informed debate. In particular, his concern about additional waste heat from burning biofuels, thus adding significantly to the greenhouse effect, is based on a misunderstanding and is therefore misleading. Waste heat is notbad as the greenhouse gases" emitted from burning fossil fuels.

This column will conclude the discussion on the failure of the forestry sector to alleviate poverty, and introduce the subject of next week’s column which will follow the supply chain to the principal destinations for Guyana’s prime hardwood logs. In 2004, David Kaimowitz, then the Director General of CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) evocatively described the boom in imports of wood fibre into China, consequent on its 1998 partial ban on logging in natural forest and the rapid expansion of wood-using industries, mostly geared to export markets, as "the giant sucking sound of Chinese forestry imports."

C’est loin du cadre luxuriant de Nkolbisson, où se trouve le siège au Cameroun du Centre international pour la recherche forestière internationale (Cifor), que sa directrice s’est entretenue avec la presse nationale. En effet, lundi 5 mars dernier autour de la piscine de l’Hôtel Djeuga de Yaoundé, Frances Seymour a indiqué que sa visite au Cameroun est la première du genre dans les bureaux régionaux d’Afrique, depuis sa nomination à la tête du Cifor en septembre 2006.

Hutan adalah sumber daya yang diperebutkan banyak pihak karena memiliki nilai ekonomis, ekologis, sosial dan cultural. Tidak heran jika situasi ini memicu lahirnya konflik sosial antara masyarakat lokal dan pemerintah, masyarakat dan pengusaha, serta antar masyarakat. Penelitian CIFOR menyebutkan selama tahun 1997-2003 terjadi 359 konflik di sektor kehutanan di Indonesia (Wulan dkk, 2004).

The letter gives one definition of illegal logging, but readers should know that many highly recognized international institutions such as the World Bank, the Centre for International Research in Forestry (CIFOR), the World Wide Fund for Nature and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), all have definitions of illegal logging

Most date from the Soeharto era, and nowadays the authorities seldom adopt such a heavy-handed approach to law enforcement. However, forest laws still discriminate against the poor, in Indonesia and many other countries. This is one of the key findings of a report published by the Bogor-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). A series of agreements have recently begun to redefine the way governments tackle illegal logging, and most promote better law enforcement. In principle, suggests Marcus Colchester, co-author of Justice in the Forest, this makes sense: Illegal logging accounts for over half the timber harvest in Amazonia, and even more in Indonesia. Illegal logging is leading to massive losses of biodiversity and it deprives governments of billions of dollar of revenue. It also destroys the resources the rural poor need for their survival.