News
16 May, 2012MSD 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, 2012TBI 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, 2012Workshop 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).
Improving the economic value of Suriname’s rainforest
Suriname - 2011
Language: English
Suriname’s land area is covered for 90 % with rainforest. Despite being such an abundant natural resource, the forest directly contributes only 0.6 % to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (unprocessed and roughly processed timber). The annual timber production stagnates around 200,000 m³, a fraction of the potential production which is estimated at around 1.275 million m³. All efforts of the government, the private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGO) to raise the timber production and processing have not succeeded. The vital question is: How can we increase the contribution of the forests to the GDP? TBI Suriname supported research by Vanessa Simson in completion of an MSc thesis in macro-economy education at the Institute for Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR) of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. The research focused on possibilities to increase the contribution of the forest sector to the GDP.