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  The World Bank in the forest

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This briefing reviews the role of the World Bank in forest protection in the face of the imminent agreement of a new forest policy.
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  Institutions and organisations in pasture and forestry management

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1998
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  Natural forest inventory

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1998
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  Social forestry in south Asia: myths and realities

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  The present study draws on research and field experience in social forestry in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka since the mid 90s. It focuses on some of the major issues in relation to popular thinking about the theory of social forestry development in South Asia, including deforestation, community participation and appropriate forest policy.
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  Nkhalango!: a social forestry model: expereinces from Blantyre city fuelwood project in southern Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This book records the successes and failures from the Blantyre City Fuel Wood Project (BCFP) in Southern Malawi. It focuses on the transfer of responsibilities for plantations and indigenous forests to newly created village institutions set up to manage these assets sustainably.It presents a model of best practice, NKHALANGO!
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  Exploring the forest - poverty link: key concepts, issues and research implications

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2003

  What role can forests and forestry play in the efforts to reduce poverty in developing countries?
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  Joint forest management in India: a sapling with feeble roots?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Although a fifth of India is covered by forest (a livelihood source for 200 million people), almost half is patchy or degraded. Joint Forest Management (JFM) may be good for forests but is it good for people? Can India regenerate forests and meet the subsistence requirements of forest residents? How can tussles between foresters, industrialists, conservationists and social activists be resolved?
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  Extension: a component description

  Mekonginfo, 2003

  This publication, which forms part of the “participatory village development and sustainable land use system” of the Lao-Swedish Forestry Program (LSFP), sets out to explain the extension procedures and methods practiced in LSFP target areas and to make information available for personnel involved in extension work.
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  Logs of war: the timber trade and armed conflict

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002

  This report explores the relationship between the trade in timber and armed conflict.
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  Monetary valuation of the Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs): does it contribute to determine a sustainable management of those resources?

  Eldis Forestry Resource Guide, 1996

  This paper reports on the attempts of a project in progress to realise a monetary valuation of all nutritious Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP) extracted by a rural village population in the East Cameroon.The village of Gouté, where the survey is being achieved, is surrounded by a tropical moist forest.

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