The research leading to this report was supported by the Forestry Policy and Planning Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, by the Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service grant 95-37400-1851, by McIntire-Stennis grant D496, by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, and by the School of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Projections for countries which are signatories to the Lomé Convention, were also supported by the EC-FAO Partnership Programme 1998-2000 - Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in ACP Countries; Linking National and International Efforts.
We thank Michael Martin and David Brooks for their help in defining the problem and study objectives, and Adrian Whiteman, Mafa Chipeta, Chris Brown and Gary Bull for their collaboration in scenario definition, and in data and parameter evaluation. The software development of Chia-Sheng Liu and econometric help of Wen-Shiuan Chao and Bintang Simangunsong are also gratefully acknowledged. The project would have not been possible without the previous contribution of Dali Zhang to the 1997 Provisional Outlook.