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Reports
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| Establishment of a national forest and timber marketing statistics system (Ecuador). |
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2011
Guyana's forest sector is one of the most thriving areas of economic growth in the country. However, too much reliance on traditional commercial species may exhaust the current supply. This booklet, an output from Project PD 344/05, introduces some of the lesser utilized species of Guyana which are no less important or usable than the major harvested species.
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| Energy grows on trees |
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November 2008
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions made at the The International Conference on Wood-based Bioenergy held in Hannover, Germany, May 2007 as part of LIGNA 2007, the world’s premier exhibition of wood industry technologies. It also includes Powerpoint slides presented by speakers and the conclusions drawn and recommendations made by conference participants. It constitutes the proceedings of the conference.
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| Lesser utilised timber species of Guyana |
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2008
Guyana's forest sector is one of the most thriving areas of economic growth in the country. However, too much reliance on traditional commercial species may exhaust the current supply. This booklet, an output from Project PD 344/05, introduces some of the lesser utilized species of Guyana which are no less important or usable than the major harvested species.
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| Assessment of the resistance of 15 lesser used timber from Guyana to abrasion and attack by Limnoria quadripunctata Holthuis |
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2008
This report an output of PD 344/05 Rev. 2, describes two laboratory tests that assess performance of 15 Lesser Used Species (LUS) of timber in Guyana against abrasion and attack by the marine wood borer Limnoria quadripunctata.
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| Report on the review of the US market for tropical timber products |
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July 2007
This report gives an overview of trends in the US tropical timber market.
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| Status of tropical forest management 2005 |
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2006
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the forest management situation in all 33 of ITTO's producer member countries. Using information submitted by the countries themselves and supplemented by data from a wide range of other sources, it addresses the policy and institutional settings in each country, the approaches taken to the allocation and management of resources, and the status of management of those resources.
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| Information and technical assistance for production and trade of tropical timber (Brazil) [PD 7/94 Rev.3 (M,I)] |
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April 2006
Ex-post evaluation of ITTO project PD 7/94 Rev.3 (M,I)
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| Industrial utilization of lesser-known forest species in sustainably managed forests (Honduras) [PD 47/94 Rev.3 (I)] |
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March 2006
Ex-post evaluation report of ITTO project PD 47/94 Rev.3 (I)
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| Review of the French timber market |
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November 2005
This report gives an overview of trends in France's tropical timber market, recommending, among other things, that tropical timber producers grow the market for lesser known species by processing them locally to international standards.
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| Review of the Italian timber market - with focus on tropical timber |
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July 2005
This report indicates that Italy will continue to play a substantial part in the international trade of tropical wood products, but the tropical timber industry faces some challenges if it is to retain and expand its share of the Italian timber trade.
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| Promoting the further processing of tropical timber in Africa |
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2004
The value of exports for all ITTO producer countries in further-processed timber was approximately US$3.5 billion in 1998, of which only 1% came from Africa. This proposal for action, which arose from a ministerial-level conference of the African Timber Organization, lays out a strategy to expand the market share of African countries in further-processed timber products.
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| Making the mahogany trade work |
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October 2004
This report presents the results of the workshop on capacity-building for the implementation of the CITES Appendix-II listing of mahogany.
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| Reviving tropical plywood |
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May 2004
This report identifies measures to bring increased transparency to the tropical hardwood plywood trade and analyses the causes of market fluctuations and price volatility.
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| Lessons learnt from ex-post evaluation missions carried out by the Committee on Economic Information and Market Intelligence [CEM-CFI(XXXIII)/3] |
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September 2003
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| Achieving the ITTO Objective 2000 and sustainable forest management in Guyana |
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April 2003
According to this mission, the Guyanese timber industry should use labour-intensive, low-technology approaches to timber extraction based on mobile sawmills and improved chainsaw conversion and, with ITTO assistance, should reorient its approach to marketing.
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| ITTO projects implemented in China - PD 20/95 Rev.2 (I); PD 21/95 Rev.2 (I); PD 24/95 Rev.1 (I); PD 3/96 Rev.2 (I); PD 25/96 Rev.2 (M) |
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April 2001
Ex-post evaluation of ITTO projects PD 20/95 Rev.2 (I), PD 21/95 Rev.2 (I), PD 24/95 Rev.1 (I), PD 3/96 Rev.2 (I) and PD 25/96 Rev.2 (M)
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| Downturn in the international tropical timber market |
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September 1999
The tropical timber trade was damaged by the 1997/98 Asian economic crisis. This paper discusses some of the measures that might be taken to assist its recovery.
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