Balancing concerns on timber legality and improving forest-based livelihoods
Concerns about deforestation and degradation and about prevailing poverty in tropical forest regions have resulted in a series of global policy initiatives. These range from policies to stimulate poverty alleviation in forest regions to programmes to prevent illegal timber logging. Such policies have often been developed independently; recent research assesses how these different policies relate to each other and how they interact.





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