Actualités des Forêts Tropicales
Numéro 30 No. 2
Looking for the money tree
Sustainable forestry has always struggled to remunerate forest owners and managers as liberally as various forms of agriculture on the same land might do. Growing trees is a relatively slow business, and managing natural forests sustainably for their many values, including timber, is complex. Nevertheless, the wider benefits of forests, especially natural forests, for local people, nations and the planet are so vast that we must do our best to retain them in a world in which money talks loudly. In this edition of the TFU, we feature recent studies looking at ways to increase the income that tropical forests generate.
Local collectors in the Bolivian Amazon hold recently harvested wild cacao fruit. Photo: © Simon Opladen/Helvetas
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Editorial
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What lies ahead for the tropical timber sector?
par Held, Meier-Landsberg, AlonsoA new ITTO report analyzes the supply of and demand for tropical timber to 2050 and its contributions to a sustainable economy. -
Incentivizing sustainable forest management
par KarsentyEcological taxation and other incentives could greatly increase the uptake of sustainable forest management in the tropics. -
Helping lesser-used species go mainstream
par MendietaPromoting the greater use of lesser-used timber species could help achieve sustainability in the moist forests of Honduras. -
The case for multiple-use forest management that includes non-timber products
par Blaser, Frizzo, NorgroveA literature review published recently by ITTO and the Precious Forests Foundation examines the benefits and challenges of managing for non-timber forest products in tropical production forests. -
Getting DNA tracking cherry-ripe for forests
par HicksonA new phase has commenced of an ITTO project that has helped create a test-and-trace system to cut illegal exports of African cherry bark. -
Fellowship report
par Tiesse, Wandan and TraAn ITTO Fellow and his colleagues used remote sensing and a geographic information system to map water-erosion sensitivity in the mountainous Tonkpi region in Côte d’Ivoire. -
Market trends
par ZhuThere was considerable fluctuation in China’s log and sawnwood imports in 2020. -
Tropical and topical
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Recent editions
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Meetings
Local collectors in the Bolivian Amazon hold recently harvested wild cacao fruit. Photo: © Simon Opladen/Helvetas
Édition intégrale
Actualités des Forêts Tropicales (TFU) est une revue trimestrielle publiée en anglais, espagnol et français; les éditions espagnole et française sont en général mises en ligne un mois environ après la version anglaise.
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