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The Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP) is a collaborative effort by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the USDA Forest Service (USFS) and Oregon State University with support from the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
The overall goal of the program is to provide policymakers with...
The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process in Central and West Africa: from theory to practice
08 August 2014
08 August 2014
Seven years after the first negotiations were initiated, the first FLEGT licence has yet to be issued. The implementation of the agreements has turned out to be more complicated than anticipated; in turn, a number of challenges must be addressed and major efforts must still be made. Even so, the...
Indigenous peoples and peasant communities have long been managing tropical forests and have increasingly gained legal access to the resource base. Only recently, however, have they started to form small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) to add value to their timber and non-timber forest products (NTFPs). SMFEs represent a promising...
The constructed wetland established to greening the desert in the Oasis of Brézina, Algeria
21 August 2015
21 August 2015
This webpage collects material related to Brézina project. The objective of the FAO project in Algeria is to produce better quality wastewater, through phyto-remediation systems and the establishment of constructed wetlands. In Brezina the wastewater coming from the oasis will be treated and used to produce wood biomass for local...
The development of food reserve forests through the civic mission operations of the armed forces of the Republic of Indonesia
09 September 2015
09 September 2015
This decree was made in order to consolidate food self-sufficiency and food diversification programmes in the framework of promoting national food resilience. For these reasons was deemed necessary to develop national food reserves. To implement the development of the said national food reserve forests, it was also necessary to establish...
The ecological basis of rainforest management
09 June 2015
09 June 2015
George Baur, a research forester of the New South Wales (NSW) Forestry Commission, was awarded the FAO Andre Meyer Fellowship in 1961-62 to travel to tropical countries and study the different silvicultural systems then in use. He wrote a large report (499 pages) and a shorter article, which was published...
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) contribute significantly to a rural household's livelihood in the African semi-arid tropics. This study examines the income from NTFPs and the dependency on these of different socio-economic groups in Northern Benin. Using survey data from 230 households of two villages, we firstly compared incomes of five...
The effect of forest policy on the use of forest resources and forest industry investments in Russia
28 August 2015
28 August 2015
In 2007, some noteworthy modifications took place in the Russian forest sector. Almost at the same time as the new Forest Code came into effect, a decree supporting prioritised investments in the forest sector and another decree aimed at ending the export of roundwood through the raising of export duties...
The evaluation of forest policies and programmes
11 August 2015
11 August 2015
This paper is a result of an international symposium organized by ENGRAF to answer important question on how to assess NFPs and their modifications. This was done in order to draw out the present state of the art of methodological tools and issue, with an aim to enhance research and...
The ferti-irrigation plant for the green belt of Marrakech, constraints and future developments
21 August 2015
21 August 2015
This presentation illustrates the case study project design of the fertigation plant to be implemented for the establishment of the green belt of Marrakech, Morocco.
The aim of the project is to study the feasibility of using treated wastewater by a specific treatment (preserve nutrients) and to reuse it in...