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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

AAC

Annual Allowable Cut

AAD

Asociación Amigos de Doñana (Spanish NGO)

AFD

French Agency for Development (Agence française de développement)

ATO

African Timber Organization

CAFT

Trinational Agroforestry Cooperative (Coopérative agroforestière de la Trinationale), Cameroon

CEFDHAC

The Conference on Central African Moist Forest Ecosystems

CIB

Congolaise Industrielle des Bois

CIFOR

Centre for International Forestry Research

CIG

common initiative group

CILSS

Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

COBABO

Bosquet Baka Community, Cameroon

CODEVIR

United Villages Development Committee, Cameroon

COMIFAC

The Conference of Ministers in Charge of Forests in Central Africa

DFID

Department for International Development, United Kingdom

ECO s.a.

Eucalyptus du Congo s.a.

ECOFAC

Conservation and Rational Use of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa

EU

European Union

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FCSM

forest concession under sustainable management (Gabon)

FHU

forest harvesting unit (Gabon)

FMU

forest management unit

FTRP

Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples (EU programme)

GTZ

German Agency for Technical Cooperation (Gesellschaft für technische zusammenarbeit)

HFC

Humid Forest Ecoregion Center, Cameroon

HMP

harvesting and management permit (Central African Republic)

IFB

Industrie Forestière de Batalimo

IFIA

Inter-African Forest Industries Association

IITA

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

IMFNS

International Model Forest Network Secretariat

INECN

National Institute for Nature Conservation and the Environment, Burundi

ITTO

International Tropical Timber Organization

IUCN

World Conservation Union

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa’s Development

NGO

non-governmental organization

NWFP

non-wood forest product

OBBC

Observatory of Baka and Bantu Cultures, Cameroon

PERAD

Environmental Protection, Research and Support to Sustainable Development, Cameroon

SDDL

Project for Sustainable Development Support in the Lomié-Dja Region (SNV project)

SNV

Netherlands Development Organisation (Nederlandse ontwikkelingsorganisatie)

TOU

technical operational unit (Cameroon)

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

WCS

Wildlife Conservation Society

WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature

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