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Managing oil palm landscapes
This study comprises a review of oil palm development and management across landscapes in the tropics. Seven countries have been selected for detailed analysis using surveys of the current literature, mainly spanning the last fifteen years. Indonesia and Malaysia are the obvious leaders in terms of area planted and levels of production and export, but also in literature generated on social and environmental challenges. In Latin America, Colombia is the dominant producer with oil palm expanding in disparate landscapes with a strong focus on palm oil-based biodiesel; and small-scale growers and companies in Peru and Brazil offer contrasting ways of inserting oil palm into the Amazon. Nigeria and Cameroon represent African nations with traditional groves and old plantations in which foreign ‘land grabs’ to establish new oil palm have recently occurred.
Policy options for improved forest use by smallholders in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, launched in 2003, is the European UnionÂ’s (EU) response to the global fight against illegal logging. In particular, FLEGT aims at reducing trade in illegal timber between the EU and timber producer partner countries.
Tropentag 2013
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Opciones de polÃtica para mejorar la inclusión en el uso del bosque por parte de pequeños productores en la Amazonia ecuatoriana
El Plan de Acción para la Aplicación de las leyes, gobernanza y comercio forestales (FLEGT), presentado en 2003, es la respuesta de la Unión Europea (UE) a la lucha global contra la tala ilegal. En particular, el objetivo de FLEGT es reducir el comercio de madera ilegal entre la UE y los paÃses socios proveedores de madera.
Aprovechamiento forestal y mercados de la madera en la AmazonÃa Ecuatoriana
Ecuador es un paÃs rico en recursos naturales, la mayor parte de estos recursos se encuentra en la AmazonÃa. La madera es uno de los recursos más importantes obtenidos de los bosques nativos. La mayor parte de la madera se consume en el mercado interno, el cual se ha duplicado en los últimos cinco, años y una menor proporción se destina a un mercado transfronterizo, cuya dimensión es todavÃa desconocida. La madera aprovechada en la AmazonÃa proviene bosques de comunidades nativas localizados en pequeñas propiedades rurales o fincas. Los finqueros venden su madera de manera formal pero también a través de transacciones informales. Las redes de intermediación de la madera, en el Ã...
Forest use and timber markets in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Several studies have analyzed the situation of the forestry sector in Ecuador, with different focus. For instance, Owen and Thiel (2006) assess the influence of policies on the economic dynamics of the forestry sector. Ibarra et al. (2008) explore the implications of forestry legislation in small-scale forest management by smallholders. Añazco et al. (2010) adopt a more comprehensive perspective to consider the current problems faced by the forestry sector and indicate the challenges to advance towards sustainable forest management. Unlike these, the analysis here is centered in the dynamics of timber harvesting in the Amazon undertaken by smallholders, colonists and indigenous people, and their relations with the domestic timber market. The most relevant studies on related issues were focused on describing the internal uses and trade flows of timber (Wunder, 1996), as well as the timber value chains with a national perspective (Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador, 2011).
Kâte Dictionary
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Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement
Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena. Following several years of preparatory work across the globe, legal scholars, judges, UN officials and climate change experts from 11 countries came together to finalise a new normative framework aiming to strengthen the right of climate-displaced persons, households and communities. This resulted in the approval of the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement within States in August 2013. This book provides de...
The Global Land Grab
The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenceless, and one about which multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, as well as civil-society organizations and action NGOs have become increasingly vocal. This in-depth and empirically diverse volume - taking in case studies from across Africa, Asia and Latin America - takes a step back from the hype to explore a number of key questions: Does the ‘global land grab’ actually exist? If so, what is new about it? And what, beyond the immediately visible dynamics and practices, are the real problems? A comprehensive and much-needed intervention on one of the most hotly contested but little-understood issues facing countries of the South today.
Deforestation-free commitments
The deforestation-free movement (or “zero-deforestation”) has emerged recently in a context of lower state control, globalization and pressure on corporations by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) through consumer awareness campaigns, acknowledging the essential role of agricultural commodities in deforestation. It takes the form of commitments by corporations to ensure that the products they either produce, process, trade or retail are not linked to forest conversion. This movement has particular relevance for Indonesia. Ambitious targets have been set with concrete action on the ground, and typically go beyond forest conservation to also include peatland management and social issues. Regarding the zero-deforestation component, its implementation relies essentially on two complementary methodologies: High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) and High Carbon Stocks (HCS).
