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July 08, 2011

Company signs farmers on to US$30m eucalyptus project

Birla Laos Pulp and Plantation Company has invested about US$30 million to plant eucalyptus trees in Laos.

Issue date: 
1 July 2011

Stacking Ecosystem Services Payments: Risks and Solutions

A wide variety of incentive programs and markets have arisen to pay landowners for ecosystem servi

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1 July 2011

Carbon forestry projects in the Philippines: potential and challenges: the case of the Arakan Forest Corridor forest carbon project

The proposed forest-carbon development project in the Arakan Forest Corridor initially was planned to participate in the carbon market under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism afforestation/reforestation component, with a total area of 3000 ha.

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1 July 2011

Reforming forest tenure

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1 July 2011

CIF Projects Focus on Climate Resilience and Forests

1 July 2011: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) approved US$444 million in grants and near-zero-interest loans to support five nation-wide strategic programmes for climate resilience in Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, St.

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July 5th, 2011

Chopping for chips

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the wood flows from smallholder plantations to industrial buyers in the Binh Dinh and Phu Tho provinces of Vietnam.

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July 5th, 2011

Biofuels in Malaysia

Malaysia is the world’s largest exporter and the second largest producer of crude palm oil.

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June 23, 2011

Brunei forest loss among lowest in SE Asia

BRUNEI'S deforestation rate from 2005 to 2010 was among the lowest in Southeast Asia, according to the Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC).

During the period, deforestation in Brunei was recorded at an average annual rate of change of less than 0.5 per cent.

Laos shared a similar record in forest cover with Brunei, but the republic suffered a higher annual rate of change, of slightly over negative 0.5 per cent.

Issue date: 
June 24, 2011

Community involvement key to forest management

BRUNEI'S forestry official yesterday stressed the importance of the involvement of local community and not only rely on the government in a bid to promote sustainable forest management and easing reliance.

Mahmud Yussof , acting director of Forestry, made this statement as senior officials attending the fifth meeting of the Asean Social Forestry Network (ASFN) yesterday discussed common understanding to forward sustainable forest management in the region.

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June, 14 2011

New road now path to forest destruction

HCM CITY — A road completed four years ago has lured farmers who have cleared hundreds of hectares of evergreen forest in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Lac Duong District.

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by Dr. Radut