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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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| 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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| Issues and opportunities for investment in natural tropical forests |
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February 2007
This technical report contains the proceedings of the International tropical forest investment forum: issues and opportunities for investment in natural tropical forests. The Forum made a significant contribution to increase the level of understanding on opportunities and constraints for investments in natural tropical forest based enterprises, and on the kind of information and types of tools available or needed to promote more responsible investment.
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| New directions for tropical plywood |
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2006
This technical report contains the proceedings of an ITTO/FAO International conference on tropical plywood. The conference provided a valuable opportunity for tropical plywood producers and consumers to exchange facts, views and experiences on the industry.
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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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| 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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| Market access of tropical timber |
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March 2003
This report assesses how various market access-related initiatives and instruments are affecting, or may affect in the future, the market positions of tropical and non-tropical timber and timber products.
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| ITTO projects in the field of statistical information systems implemented in Latin America - PD 1/97 Rev.1 (M); ITTO Project PD 34/94 Rev.1 (M); PD 44/96 Rev.2 (M); PD 27/95 Rev.3 (M) Phase I and Phase II Stage 1; PPD 5/94 (M) |
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September 2002
Ex-post evaluation of five ITTO projects on forest statistical systems implemented in Bolivia, Colombia, Panama and Peru
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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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| Impediments to market access for tropical timber |
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May 1999
This survey assesses, among other things, how market access for tropical timber products is influenced by governments, professional associations, industrial and retail sectors, international organizations and other non-government groups.
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