Using data gathered from market actors and 384 households, factors influencing the participation of producers in gum and resins ch...
Authors: Gebru, Y.;Ewnetu, Z.;Kassa, H.;Padoch, C.
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On volume recovery index and implications for sustainable logging in Congo Basin
Publication Year : 2014
We introduce a volume recovery index (VRI), the fraction of inventoried (alternatively felled) tree volume that can be recovered a...
Authors: Mayaka, T.B.;Atyi, R.E.;Nkie, M.C.
Climate change and forest communities: prospects for building institutional adaptive capacity in the Congo Basin forests
Publication Year : 2014
Tropical forests are vulnerable to climate-change representing a risk for indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities. Mec...
Authors: Brown, H.C.P.;Smith, B;Somorin, O.A.;Sonwa, D.J.;Nkem, J.
Oil palm plantation investments in Indonesia's forest frontiers: limited economic multipliers and uncertain benefits for local communities
Publication Year : 2014
This paper examines the implications of oil palm estate development in Indonesias frontier province of Papua. Government planner...
Authors: Obidzinski, K.;Dermawan, A.;Hadianto, A.
Household and farm attributes affecting adoption of smallholder timber management practices by tree growers in Gunungkidul region, Indonesia
Publication Year : 2014
Farm household characteristics determine the success of programs promoting agroforestry systems and practices. This paper reports ...
Authors: Sabastian, G.;Kanowski, P.;Race, D.;Williams, E.;Roshetko, J.M.
Oil palm smallholder yields and incomes constrained by harvesting practices and type of smallholder management in Indonesia
Publication Year : 2014
The oil palm industry in Indonesia faces several challenges in its bid to adopt more sustainable practices. These challenges inclu...
Authors: Lee, J. S. H.;Ghazoul, J.;Obidzinski, K.;Koh, L.P.
What scope for certifying forest ecosystem services?
Publication Year : 2014
Ecosystem services have rapidly moved to the mainstream of environmental policies. Certification has for decades been a market-bas...
Authors: Meijaard, E.;Wunder, S.;Guariguata, M.R.;Sheil, D.
Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base
Publication Year : 2014
More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may s...
Authors: Wunder, S.;Angelsen, A.;Belcher, B.
Systematic review of effects on biodiversity from oil palm production
Publication Year : 2014
Background During the past decade there has been a growing interest in bioenergy, driven by concerns about global climate change, ...
Authors: Savilaakso, S.;García, C.;Garcia-Ulloa, J.;Ghazoul, J.;Groom, M.;Guariguata, M.R.;Laumonier, Y.;Nasi, R.;Petrokofsky, G.;Snaddon, J.;Zrust, M.
Are alternative livelihood projects effective at reducing local threats to specified elements of biodiversity and/or improving or maintaining the conservation status of those elements?: a systematic review protocol
Publication Year : 2014
Background: Alternative livelihood projects are used by a variety of organisations as a tool for achieving conservation results. Y...
Authors: Roe, D.;Day, M.;Booker, F.;Zhou, W.;Allebone-Webb, S;Kumpel, N.;Hill, N.A.O.;Wright, J.;Rust, N.;Sunderland, T.C.H.;Redford, K.H.;Petrokofsky, G.