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Sustainable forest management policies in central Africa: Taking the informal sector into account

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For 20 years, the Congo Basin countries have been implementing policies aimed at the sustainable management of their forest resources and at poverty reduction. These policies target the major timber concessions, whose production is exported, but overlook the informal-scale chainsaw milling is now the main timber-producing sector in central Africa as well as a source of income and jobs, but remains fragile.
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    Publication year

    2013

    Authors

    Lescuyer, G.; Cerutti, P.O.

    Language

    French

    Keywords

    policy, sustainability, forest management, timbers, concessions, chainsaws, milling industry

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