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The status of legality verification of Chinese wood processing enterprises: based on a survey in Jiangsu and Zhejiang
With the rapid development of the timber industry, illegal logging of timber and its trade have become an important issue for world sustainable...
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Untangling the Regulatory Environment: Why do Wood Processing Businesses in Indonesia Fail to be Competitive in the Global Market?
Smallholder tree planting has long been practiced by rural people throughout the tropics. However, the competitiveness of Indonesian wood products...
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Analysis of Tropical Sawn-Wood Supply from Cameroon: Critical Linkages of Forest and Economic Policies
Small-scale forest investments and the diversification of exports are possible avenues for growth in low-income countries. Cameroon is an interesting...
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The illegal trade in rosewood in Indonesia
Rosewoods are among the most valuable traded hardwoods, and there is a significant illegal trade. From 2017 onwards the international trade in all...
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Supporting Community Forestry Certification in Tropical Countries by Increasing Actor Engagement across Scales
For over two decades, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for community forestry has occurred in tropical countries. However, community...
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Similarity network fusion for aggregating headspace GC–MS and direct analysis in real time–mass spectrometry data from solid samples to enhance species identification efficiency of high–temperature heated wood
Pterocarpus santalinus and Pterocarpus tinctorius are commonly used species of the genus Pterocarpus in the wood trade. Although both of them have...
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Predicting the geographic origin of Spanish Cedar (Cedrela odorata L.) based on DNA variation
The legality of wood products often depends on their origin, creating a need for forensic tools that verify claims of provenance for wood products....
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DART mass spectrometry as a potential tool for the differentiation of captive-bred and wild lion bones
In recent years lion bones have been legally traded internationally to Asian markets from captive-bred sources in South Africa. There are also...
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Pre- and Post-harvest Processing and Quality Standardization
The rapid acceptance of hemp farming has created tremendous opportunities across many industries, including research, agriculture, manufacturing,...
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Regulation, formalization, and smallholder timber production in northern Central Java, Indonesia
Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade agreements between the EU and countries that grow tropical timber aim to complement, alter, or generate...
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The status of chain-of-custody certification in the countries of Central and South Europe
The significance of wood and paper products originating from certified sustainable sources has been increasing worldwide during the last two decades...
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The impact of application of FSC Chain of Custody certification on global wood products trade
FSC Chain of Custody (CoC) certification effectively proves that the timber being used originates from sustainably managed forests, and a large...
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Alignment-free genome comparison enables accurate geographic sourcing of white oak DNA
BackgroundThe application of genomic data and bioinformatics for the identification of restricted or illegally-sourced natural products is urgently...
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Smallholder Farmers’ Knowledge of Regulations Governing the Sale of Timber and Supply Chains in Gunungkidul District, Indonesia
Smallholder timber plantations may offer opportunities for farmers to increase their income. Nonetheless, such opportunities are often lost largely...
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Markets in Southeast Asia
Our story now moves to the farther side of the planet, for although some of the illegal ivory is sold in the domestic markets of many African...
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Lessons for research, capacity development and policy in agroforestry for development
Since its foundation in the 1970’s, agroforestry science has evolved from setting its concepts, research approaches and flagship technologies towards...
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Forest Market Standards and Transport
Technical and environmental standards, such as product standards and environmental credentials and codes relating to safety, health and building...
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Forest Crime in the Tropics
In many tropical countries noncompliance of forest-related laws and the poor governance are a main driver of forest destruction. Wrongdoing in...
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Quantifying post logging biomass loss using satellite images and ground measurements in Southeast Cameroon
Forest logging in the Congo Basin has led to forest fragmentation due to logging infrastructures and felling gaps. In the same vein, forest...
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Forest Market Policy Issues
This chapter discusses environmental and economic policies and developments affecting tropical wood product markets, including those related to...