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  The effects of decentralization on Kenya’s forestry sector: cases from forests studied by the IRFI collaborating research centre in Kenya

  Kenya Forestry Research Institute, 2004

  Decentralisation and devolution have become dominant themes in the management of natural resources in the less developed countries.
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  Partners in crime: the UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea’s rainforest

  Greenpeace International, 2005

  This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.Based on investigations by Greenpeace, the document accuses the UK timber trade of fuelling illegal production of plywood and hardwood thus encouraging the destruction of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.
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  A choice for China: ending the destruction of Burma’s northern frontier forests

  Global Witness, 2005

  This report argues for an end to unsustainable and destructive illegal logging in Burma’s north forests. Whilst the logging itself is mostly managed by relevant authorities in Burma, much of the timber is exported illegally to China.
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  Forests and floods: drowning in fiction or thriving on facts?

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2005

  This new report from FAO and CIFOR challenges the conventional wisdom linking large-scale flooding to deforestation. The report acknowledges that forests can play a role in minimising runoff that causes localised flooding. But it concludes that there is no evidence that a loss of trees significantly contributes to severe widespread flooding.
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  Timber, Taylor, soldier, spy: how Liberia’s uncontrolled resource exploitation, Charles Taylor’s manipulation and the re-recruitment of excombatants are threatening regional peace

  Global Witness, 2005

  This paper demonstrates how insufficient reform of Liberia’s diamond and timber industries and failure to adequately control areas rich in natural resources have resulted in their continued exploitation and threat to regional peace and security.
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  The oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).
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  Lessons learnt from new initiatives in forest management for bio-diversity enrichment, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods: case studies from India, China, Nepal and Laos

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper draws lessons from indigenous perspectives of forest communities in India, China and Nepal which are involved in relatively new initiatives in local forest management for over-arching goals such as enrichment of bio-diversity, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods.
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  A guide to independent forest monitoring

  Global Witness, 2005

  This guide provides a comprehensive account of Independent Forest Monitoring ( IFM). Its main aim is to clarify and promote the concept of IFM, acknowledging that by dealing with politically sensitive issues of governance there will always differences of opinion.
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  People's law

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool, based on experience in the forestry sector in Ghana, helps to empower people to challenge the assumption that legal change is beyond their means.
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  Targeting livelihoods evidence

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This manual draws on real experience from Uganda to provide advice to forestry planners and managers on how to go about raising the profile of forestry at the level of national government. This involves "marketing" forestry: customising the product and building a chain of relationships to help get the new product to customers.

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