Projects
The Forestry Department of FAO has been assisting the implementation of different kinds of projects focused on tree and forest product enterprises. The Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) methodology used in these projects has also been successfully applied to other resources and opportunities, in services such as community-based tourism projects, in agricultural and timber products, and in coastal fisheries.
Examples of results obtained from using the MA&D process by different actors in different contexts:
MA&D helped establish a planning framework for enhancing small /community-based enterprises based on natural resources
MA&D helped users to find solutions tailored to their needs
MA&D contributed to identify new enterprise ideas in order to decrease the pressure on degraded forest and fragile ecosystems
MA&D contributed to the improvement of existing enterprises
MA&D contributed to raising the capacity of entrepreneurs
MA&D helped future entrepreneurs to create useful alliances
MA&D contributed to protect the forest and increase community-based sustainable forest management
MA&D produced indirect positive socio-economic impacts in the communities where it has been introduced
MA&D allowed community members to acquire new skills
For more details on the examples provided in the bullets above, click here.
For further information please contact:
Sophie Grouwels
Forestry Officer
Forest Policy & Economics Team (FOEP)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla - 00153 Rome - Italy
Phone: +39 06 57055299
Fax: +39 06 57055514
E-mail: Sophie.Grouwels@fao.org