Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Challenges and Opportunities: Policy Options for the Forestry Sector in the Asia-Pacific Region

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by

Neil Byron
Assistant Director-General

on behalf of

CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research
Bogor
Indonesia

WORKING PAPER SERIES

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/09

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

August 1997

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission. This report comes under Workplan Number E27.2

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.

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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

PREFACE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Major Trends of the 1970s-1990s
Alternative Scenarios

Status Quo policies, accompanied by increasing affluence in the region
Modifying Policies to maximize the potential contribution from the Forestry Sector

INTRODUCTION

GLOBAL AND REGIONAL PATTERNS AND TRENDS 1970S-1990S

Global trends
Regional trends
Forestry Sector trends

FORESTRY SECTOR TRENDS

Land-Use Pressures, People and Trees
The Importance of Non-Industrial Forest Products to Traditional Societies
Industrial Forestry and Forest Industries

Industrial Plantations

The Multiple Benefits of Forests

Devolution of Management to User Groups and Communities: Community Forestry
Integration of Conservation with Multiple Uses
Promotion of Farm Forestry

Assessment of the Status Quo

POLICY CHOICES - THE FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR FORESTS

A. Continuation of Current Policies and Institutions

What might this context mean for forest management and conservation?
What might be the impacts on traditional societies, the NTFP extractors?

B. If Environmental Awareness is Sustained or Increased
C. If Economic Pressures Reduce Societies' Emphasis on Forest Conservation

CONCLUSIONS - POTENTIAL FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND REFORM

Areas for Further Research

REFERENCES