27 Result(s)
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Regulating the Quality of Seedlings for Forest Restoration: Lessons from the National Greening Program in the Philippines
The use of low quality planting material is one of the major reasons for the limited success of past reforestation programs in the Philippines and elsewhere in the tropics. In the Philippines, a national polic...
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Financial Evaluation of Forestry Investments: Common Pitfalls and Guidelines for Better Analyses
Many of the papers submitted to Small-scale Forestry contain financial analyses of forestry investments. Unfortunately, both the method of analysis and the reporting of the analysis in initial submissions are oft...
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Resource Availability Versus Resource Extraction in Forests: Analysis of Forest Fodder System in Forest Density Classes in Lower Himalayas, India
Particularly in develo** countries, forests provide feed for livestock in the form of fodder for stall-feeding and grazing in forest areas. Extraction of fodder resources from forests often leads to forest d...
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Comparative Analysis of On-Site Free-Hand Chainsaw Milling and Fixed Site Mini-Bandsaw Milling of Smallholder Timber
Sawing trials were conducted to determine the green-off sawn (GOS) timber recovery rates of chainsaw milling and mini-bandsaw milling and determine the potential returns from timber sales (stumpage value) of s...
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Erratum to: Foreword for the Special Issue on Carbon Markets in Small-scale Forestry
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Foreword for the Special Issue on Carbon Markets in Small-scale Forestry
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Visitors’ Attitudes Towards and Willingness-to-Pay for Hypothetical Hoop Pine Plantations on the Pastoral Southern Atherton Tablelands, Australia
The southern Atherton Tablelands comprises diverse green spaces—meadows, croplands, woodlots and rainforest—which are integrated into a large-scale tablelands landscape. This paper examines visitors’ perceptio...
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Compiling Market and Other Financial Data on Smallholder Forestry in Leyte, the Philippines
Data collection and maintenance of databases concerning smallholder forestry presents special problems in develo** countries. This paper examines forestry data collection experiences in a series of research ...
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Financing Methods for Small-Scale Hardwood Plantations in Queensland, Australia
Under Vision 2020, a target was set in 1997 for trebling the forestry plantation area in Australia by the year 2020. Government subsidies and extension for plantation establishment have largely disappeared, hence...
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Users’ Reactions to the Primer on Tree Registration Policies: Lessons for Designing Extension Materials and Improving Information Flow
In the Philippines, only a few farmers and plantation owners register their tree farms with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the office in charge of tree registration. One of the maj...
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Foreword for the Combined Special Issue on Seedling Production Systems
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Enhancing Tree Seedling Supply to Smallholders in Leyte Province, Philippines: An Evaluation of the Production System of Government Nursery Sector and Support to Smallholder Tree Farmers
A decentralized seedling production is regarded as the most effective means of providing smallholders with planting materials. However, the sustainability of smallholder nursery operation is constrained by sev...
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A Critical Overview of Forestry Seedling Production Policies and Practices in Relation to Smallholder Forestry in Develo** Countries
This paper reviews forestry seedling production systems in South-east and East Asia and identifies problems with respect to seedling quality, seedling distribution and financial sustainability, and measures wh...
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Landholder Profiling and Typologies for Natural Resource–Management Policy and Program Support: Potential and Constraints
The use of landholder typologies to aid the development, implementation, and monitoring natural-resource management (NRM) policies and programs has increased considerably during the past decade. This article e...
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Relationship between farm size and reforestation activity: evidence from Queensland studies
This paper reviews the findings of nine studies carried out over about the last decade by a forestry socio-economic research group in Queensland, Australia. On the basis of survey evidence and landholder typol...
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An evaluation of the small-scale sawmilling and timber processing industry in northern Vietnam and the need for planting particular indigenous species
This paper reports findings of surveys into small-scale sawmilling and timber processing in Phu Tho Province and the Tam Dao National Park buffer zone in northern Vietnam. The objective of these surveys was to...
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The performance of community organisers in promotion of community forestry in Leyte Province, Philippines
A study was conducted to assess the role and effectiveness of community organisers in supporting the development of people’s organisations in achieving community-based forest management objectives in Leyte Pro...
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Small-scale forestry development in Leyte, Philippines: The central role of nurseries
This paper presents results of survey research into the role of the forestry nursery sector in the development of smallholder forestry in Leyte, Philippines. Seedling production in the province is basically ca...
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Past and present forestry support programs in the Philippines, and lessons for the future
A variety of government programs have been implemented to support smallholder forestry for production and conservation purposes in the Philippines. This paper briefly outlines the arrangements of the past and ...
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Evaluation of the performance of the community rainforest reforestation program in North Queensland, Australia
The Community Rainforest Reforestation Program (CRRP) in north Queensland, Australia, was a multi-faceted experiment in facilitating farm forestry. It was motivated in part by the World Heritage listing of the...
