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Certifications impacts on Forests, Stakeholder and Supply Chains:

Certification was developed to independently verify the quality of forest management, to communicate this to market players, and so to improve market benefits for the products of good management. The growing influence of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is one of the most striking recent developments in forestry. Certification is increasingly common on all continents. But has it actually improved forest management? Has it created sufficient market incentives? Above all, has it enabled trust to develop between stakeholders, so that they can work together better, to build the institutions required for sustainable forest management?

With the beginnings of a body of experience now built, this thematic study set out to assess the impacts of certification. The work involved the:

• development, with FSC, of a detailed classification of all its certificates, and analysis of this to reveal significant trends; read more...
  
• completion of field case studies, with the Oxford Forestry Institute, of the impacts of community forest certification in Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, and Zambia; read more...
  
• research for case studies of certified forest companies in Poland, Brazil and South Africa about how they interact with supply chains; read more...
  
• assessment of policy impacts and implications of certification. read more...

This work is presented in the synthesis report: Certification’s impacts on forests, stakeholders and supply chains.

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