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APA
American Pulpwood Association, Washington, DC, United States

CATIE
Tropical Agriculture Research and Training Center, Turrialba, Costa Rica

CIFOR
Centre for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia

CIRAD-Forêt
Cooperation Centre on Agrarian Research for Development, Forestry Department, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

COFE
Council on Forest Engineering, Corvallis, Oregon, United States

DEC
Department of Environmental Conservation, State of New York, Albany, New York, United States

EMBRAPA
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brasilia, Brazil

ETFRN
European Tropical Forest Research Network, Bonn, Germany

FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

FERIC
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, Pointe Claire, Quebec, and Vancouver, British Columbia

FSC
Forest Stewardship Council, Mexico City, Mexico

GTZ
German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Eschborn, Germany

IDRC
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

IIED
International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK

ILO
International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

ISTF
International Society of Tropical Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

ITTO
International Tropical Timber Organization, Yokohama, Japan

ITW
Initiative Tropenwald, Berlin, Germany

IUCN
World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland

IUFRO
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, Vienna, Austria

LIRO
Logging Industry Research Organization, Rotorua, New Zealand

NGO
Non-governmental organization

OFIA
Ontario Forest Industries Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

OTA
Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, Washington, DC, United States

SAF
Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

SARH
Secretaria de Agricultura y Recursos Hidraulicos, Mexico City, Mexico

SUDAM
Superintendência do Desenvolvimento da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil

TFF
Tropical Forest Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

UNDP
United Nations Development Programme, New York, New York, United States

UNEFOR
Unión Nacional de Empresarios Forestales, San Jose, Costa Rica

UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France

USAID
United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States

USDA
United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, United States

WCB
Workers' Compensation Board, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

World Bank
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, DC, United States

WRI
World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, United States

WWF
World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland


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