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The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit, scientific facility that conducts research on the most pressing challenges of forest and landscapes management around the world. With our global, multidisciplinary approach, we aim to improve human well-being, protect the environment, and increase equity. To do so, we help policymakers, practitioners and communities make decisions based on solid science about how they use and manage their forests and landscapes.
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Displaying 206 - 210 of 808Diagnóstico de la situación actual sobre políticas, información, avances y necesidades futuras sobre MRV en Bolivia
Este libro examina los puntos principales de la experiencia nacional de MRV-REDD en Bolivia. Bolivia cuenta con más de 45 millones de hectáreas de bosques, desde los más secos hasta los más húmedos, tanto en tierras bajas como altas; esto equivale a alrededor de 45 a 50% de su territorio.
Transformación de los paisajes tropicales en América Latina
En los paisajes tropicales de América Latina están teniendo lugar importantes transformaciones con consecuencias sobre el desarrollo económico y el cambio climático. Los cambios en los territorios ocurren no solo debido a las políticas y mercados nacionales sino también a las dinámicas de mercado globales vinculadas a un rol creciente de los comercializadores e inversionistas transnacionales.
The domestic market for smallscale chainsaw milling in Gabon: Present situation, opportunities and challenges
The domestic market for small-scale chainsaw milling in Cameroon: present situation, opportunities and challenges
In 1994 Cameroon adopted a new forest law that focussed on the large-scale, export-oriented industrial forest sector while timber produced through small-scale logging for the domestic market was ignored, even in official statistics, and is generally produced without a valid permit. As Cameroon prepares to implement the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) it recently signed with the European Union, promising a legal framework for all national timber production, this occasional paper presents a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the country’s domestic timber market.