Indiscriminate regulation penalises smallholders Policymakers in the humid tropics often justify export bans, taxes, marketing regulations and other controls on the timber trade in order toprotect natural forests. Their actions are supported by research that shows logging and associated activities to be a prime cause of the loss and degradation of the world’s remaining large and relatively-intact rainforest ecosystems. In the absence of effective mechanisms for policing forest areas earmarked forconservation, restrictions on the tropical timber trade are seen as the next best way to curb illegal logging.
Publication year
2001
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry, income, soil fertility, trees
Geographic
Philippines
