The domestic market for smallscale chainsaw milling in Gabon: Present situation, opportunities and challenges PDF Download

Author: Lescuyer, G., Cerutti, P.O., Manguiengha, S.N., Bilogo bi Ndong, L
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693537
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Guillaume Lescuyer
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Languages : en
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Author: Lescuyer, G., Yembe-Yembe, R.I., Cerutti, P.O.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693766
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Guillaume Lescuyer
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6021504437
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Besides the business enterprises in Bandundu province that use small-scale logging permits (PCAs) illegally, there is a national artisanal sector composed of individual chainsaw millers who supply the domestic market and certain neighbouring countries. This sector is still essentially informal. Our year-long monitoring of markets and transiting points for chainsaw timber brought out the substantial development of this activity over the last 15 years. At present more than a million cubic meters of chainsaw timber are produced in DRC every year, of which 85% is to meet the national demand. The production in Roundwood Equivalents of chainsaw timber – estimated at 3.4 million cubic metres per annum – is 13 times higher than the total formal production of wood products in DRC. The domestic markets of Kinshasa and eastern DRC generate sales of over 100 millions US dollars per year and yield profits estimated at 25 million dollars. The local populations benefit most from chainsaw milling and receive close to 50 million US dollars per year. As for job creation, the rural and urban artisanal timber production sectors combined offered at least 25 000 direct jobs in the country.

Author: Paolo Omar Cerutti
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6028693448
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Guillaume Lescuyer
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Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
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Author: Paolo Omar Cerutti
Publisher: CIFOR
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Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Author: Guillaume Lescuyer
Publisher: CIFOR
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Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Gabon officially entered into VPA negotiations in September 2010. The initial engagement resulted in agreement on a road map and the production of a legality matrix. However, the latter has not yet been validated and negotiations were resumed only recently. It is difficult to predict the final coverage of the VPA, but available information seems to indicate that it will also cover the domestic market. The domestic timber market has undergone a drastic transformation in recent years. Pro-Formal results indicate that the domestic consumption of artisanal sawn wood decreased by almost half in 2008–2012, and that more timber than in the past is now supplied by industrial scraps, as industrial production for the national market increased during the same period. These trends are largely explained by the financial crisis, a log export ban effective as of 2010 that forced industrial companies to process timber locally, and increased control and enforcement efforts.

Author: Carlos de Wasseige
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Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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The 2010 State of the Forest report (SOF) benefited from financial support from the European Union, the United States, Germany, France and UNESCO. It represents the collaborative effort of over 100 individuals from a diversity of institutions and the forestry administrations of the Central African countries. The SOF process began with the selection and definition of indicators relevant to monitoring the state of forests in Central Africa. The indicators are structured around three thematic areas: (i) forest cover; (ii) management of production forests; and (iii) conservation and biodiversity. They are presented in a hierarchical structure at the regional, national and management unit (i.e. logging concessions and protected areas) levels. The indicators were vetted by a representative panel of stakeholders of forest management in Central Africa. The indicators are used to guide an annual data collection process carried out between April and August by national groups of four to ten individuals working within the forestry administrations. The data reported on in the 2010 SOF were primarily collected in 2009 and 2010. Results were validated in national workshops attended by government officials as well as representatives of environmental NGOs, the private sector and development projects. The data provided an important basis for the authors of the 11 chapters of the 2010 SOF, which were under the coordination of a scientific committee of international renown. A final workshop was held 29-30 March, 2011 in Douala to review a draft report. Following amendments based on comments from a wide audience of experts the final layout was completed.

Author: Guillaume Lescuyer
Publisher: CIFOR
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Languages : en
Pages : 4

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The Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, launched in 2003, is the European Union’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.