Tropical Forest Update

Contents

• Changing from within

  

  Photo: R. Guevara

  Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon can be empowered to pursue their own concepts of sustainable development

  By Mario Loayza Villegas

• Enticing small operators out of the woodwork

  

  Photo: J. Kiuru

  Gaining the trust of entrepreneurs is one of the main challenges facing training institutes in the forest and woodworking sectors

  By Jorma Peltonen and Kari Leppanen

• For services rendered

  

  Photo: Iwokrama International
  Centre for Rain Forest Conservation

  Tropical forests provide the planet with many valuable services. Are beneficiaries prepared to pay for them?

  By Sara Scherr, Andy White and Arvind Khare with contributions from Mira Inbar and Augusta Molnar

• Addressing fire management in the Philippines

  According to a recent ITTO commissioned report, DENR should re-assume responsibility for forest fire suppression

• Exports turn a corner

  The immediate prospects for tropical timber exporters have brightened

  By Mike Adams

• Joining up to stop desertification

  

  Photo: H. O. Ma

  The field-level implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification could be within reach

  By Hama Arba Diallo

• Out on a limb

  

  Photo: CIB

  Space should be made for the genuine negotiation of forest management plans in Africa

  By Jean-Claude Nguinguiri

• Fellowship report

  

  An ecological study of mangrove vegetation in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

  By Myint Aung, Kazue Fujiwara and Yukira Mochida

• On the conference circuit

  

  Reports on an international conference on private sector experiences in SFM, an ITTO mahogany workshop, a workshop on decentralisation, federal systems in forestry and national forest programmes, and more

• Recent editions

  

  New books and reports

• Tropical and topical

  

  Reports recent developments in tropical forestry

• Courses

  

  Short training courses for professionals in forestry and related disciplines

• Meetings

  

  A comprehensive listing of coming conferences relevant to sustainable tropical forest management