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16 May, 2012

MSD Platform Successfully Established in Two New Districts

The EU chainsaw milling project has expanded its multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) platform to two new forest districts: Tarkwa and Nkwanta.

15 May, 2012

TBI Viet Nam holds a successful final phase two workshop

TBI Viet Nam held its final workshop of phase two on April 17th, 2012 in Hue, Viet Nam. The overall objective of the workshop was to evaluate the obtained results compiled by TBI Viet Nam, and to introduce the programme’s orientation thru 2016.

15 May, 2012

Workshop to assess the policy and practice of Forest Land Allocation held in Ha Noi

On April 10th, 2012, TBI Viet Nam, with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), conducted a workshop in Ha Noi entitled, “Forestry Land Allocation: Policy and Practice.” The event was held in cooperation with the Department of Science, Technology and Environment (under MARD) and the Institute of Forest Planning and Inventory (FIPI).

The functioning of the local wood market

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Cameroon’s current roundwood production equals about 4 million m3 of which half is produced by industrial operators (formal sector) and the other half by small-scale operators, mainly operating without permits (informal sector), supplying principally the local market with cheap lumber. The Programme for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources - South West Region (PSMNR-SWR) is looking for options how to supply the domestic market with legal timber. The Limbe timber market was monitored for a period of more than a year which showed volumes and species sold and potential supply zones in the region. The supply of chainsawn timber from the agricultural landscape has been studied by IITA around Yaoundé by making farm tree inventories and characterizing the different land uses combined with household interviews. Similar studies are conducted in South West Region.

The Programme for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources - South West Region (PSMNR-SWR) is looking for options how to supply the domestic market with legal timber. The Limbe timber market was monitored for a period of more than a year which showed volumes and species sold and potential supply zones in the region. The supply of chainsawn timber from the agricultural landscape has been studied by IITA around Yaoundé by making farm tree inventories and characterizing the different land uses combined with household interviews. Similar studies are conducted in South West Region.

TBI Cameroon in collaboration with the Faculté d’Agronomie et des Sciences Agricoles de l’Université de Dschang (FASA), IITA and CIFOR will supervise six students from FASA. Towards this end on-farm tree inventories are conducted and the different land uses characterised, in addition household interviews are conducted to map forest use, ownership and control, land tenure, forest access and benefit sharing. A workshop in South West Region will be organised to discuss the initial findings.

Objective

In order to contribute to options for regulating the domestic timber market in the South West Region, this project aims to: (1) highlight the commercial relationships between buyers and sellers in the supply chain to the Limbe timber market from the production areas at coastal Idenao, along the road to Kumba and beyond Kumba towards Mamfe; (2) find out the attitudes of farmers towards harvesting on their land and (3) the impact on timber tree populations.