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Acronyms


AGC

Ashanti Goldfields Corporation

AGI

Association of Ghana Industries

BCR

Benefit Cost Ratio

BOPP

Benso Oil Palm Plantation

BVFL

Bonsu Vonberg Farms Ltd.

CAI

Current Annual Increment

CCF

Chief Conservator of Forests

CFMU

Collaborative Forest Management Unit

CS

Coastal Savannah (South-East Outlier)

DA

District Assembly

dbh

Breast Height Diameter

DLH

Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman

DS

Dry Semi-Deciduous

DWT

Dupaul Wood Treatment

EC

European Community

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

ECG

Electricity Corporation of Ghana

EIA

Environmental Impact Assessment

EPA

Ghana Environmental Protection Agency

EU

European Union

FAO

Food and Agricultural Organisation

FD

Forestry Department

FDMP

Forest Development Master Plan

FORIG

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

FPDC

Forest Plantations Development Centre

FPDF

Forest Plantation Development Fund

FPRI

Forest Reseacrh Institute

FPIB

Forest Products Inspection Bureau

FR

Forest Reserve

FRMP

Forest Resources Management Project

FST

Forest Savannah Transition Zone

GAP

Ghana Primewoods Products Ltd.

GCFD

Groupe Caisse Francaise de Development

GDP

Gross Development Product

GERMP

Ghana Environmental Resources Management Project

GIPC

Ghana Investment Promotion Centre

GIS

Geographic Information System

GOPC

Ghana Oil Palm Corporation

GREL

Ghana Rubber Estates Ltd.

GuS

Guinea Savannah

HFZ

High Forest Zone

IDA

International Development Association

ITTO

The International Tropical Timber Organisation

IUCN

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

LI

Legal Instrument

MAI

Mean Annual Increment

ME

Moist Evergreen

MLF

Ministry of Lands and Forestry

MS

Moist Semi-Deciduous

MSS

Modified Selection System

NAC

National Agro-forestry Committee

NGO

Non Governmental Organisation

NRCD

National Revolution Council Decree

NRMP

Natural Resources Management Project

NTFP

Non-Timber Forest Product

ODA

Overseas Development Agency

OFR

Outside Forest Reserve

PTC

Pioneer Tobacco Company Ltd.

RFD

Rural Forestry Division (of the FD)

Samartex

Samreboi Timber and Plywood Ltd.

SIPL

Subri Industrial Plantation Ltd.

SM

Southern Marginal

SMCD

Supreme Military Council Decree

SMS

Swiss Lumber Company Ltd.

SO

South-East Outlier

Spp.

Species

SuS

Sudan Savannah

SZ

Savannah Zone

TEDB

Timber Export Development Board

TSS

Tropical Shelterwood System

TUC

Timber Utilisation Contract

UE

Upland Evergreen

UK

United Kingdom

UNEP

United Nations Environmental Programme

WE

Wet Evergreen

WVLC

Western Veneer and Lumber Company


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