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Recommendations to control illegal chainsaw milling in Ghana.

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Authors: EU Chainsaw project secretariat

Ghana - 2010

Language: English

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Domestic market demand for lumber has been identified as the major driver for illegal CSM in Ghana hence the failure of the chainsaw ban. Without addressing the domestic lumber supply within the context of the production and supply of legal timber, it may almost be impossible to develop and enforce an adequate CSM policy. The policy option should therefore ultimately put adequate legal lumber on the domestic market in conformity with the sustainable production capacity of the forest resource. Export policies should be fully aligned with domestic market policies since they both draw timber from the same resource. The policy should also address the pull factors or drivers that give rise to the perpetuation of the practice and should also aim at optimising or re-creating the advantages of chainsaw milling whilst at the same time reducing any ill effects of the practice.

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