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Theme: Small-scale producers and local economies
Project name: Small-medium forestry enterprises for poverty reduction and sustainability Dates / Duration: August 2002 to July 2006
Geographic Region: International, with particular focus in South Africa, India, China, Brazil, Uganda and Guyana Introduction: IIED’s partners in developing countries requested assistance in working through a new set of obstacles and opportunities for making forest enterprise work for local sustainable livelihoods. The reasons why this challenge has emerged, and a set of specific activities to begin addressing it, are outlined below. IIED coordinated the project Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry from 1998 to 2002. There has been significant interest in, and uptake of, findings of this project by the private sector and governments in the project’s five core countries: China, South Africa, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and India, and a number of voluntary or enforcement options have been developed as a result. Civil society organisations are also drawing on findings and there has been strong demand for the work from development assistance agencies and international forest policy processes. Effective forest governance is needed to work through the agenda laid down by the project’s findings. This in turn requires a negotiated and shared vision amongst all key stakeholders of the desired role of forestry in land use in any given context. Furthermore, IIED's partners have recognised that most international attention in forestry has been given to improving the conditions for large-scale or micro-scale forestry, and much less to the 'messy middle' - which produces a high proportion of forest product and involves huge numbers of people. For example, in the Brazilian Amazon, 92% of the total production volume is accounted for by small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Objectives: This
project builds on the findings of Instruments for sustainable private
sector forestry. It aims to encourage and enforce greater sustainability
in private sector forestry, by installing its findings in the practices
of key institutions promoting good governance and sustainable livelihoods.
It also begins to address the demand for converting what we know about
better big business into systems, alliances and tools that enable small
and medium enterprise to deliver improved forest security and poverty
reduction.
Key findings/ progress to date: Work completed so far has included diagnostics of the key issues for forestry SMEs in finance, governance, alliances and labour, in South Africa, India, China, Brazil, Uganda and Guyana. These diagnostics include:
Key Publications: Toward an enabling environment for small and medium forest enterprise development Country-specific case studies are also available for download: Raising forest revenues and employment: Unlocking the potential of small and medium forest enterprises in Guyana Andrew Mendes, Duncan Macqueen (2006) Forestry contractors in South Africa: what role in reducing poverty? Jeanette Clarke, Moenieba Isaacs (2005) Small-scale timber production in South Africa: what role in reducing poverty? Mike Howard, Phumzile Matikinca, Dominic Mitchell, Fiona Brown, Fonda Lewis, Isaiah Mahlangu, Andile Msimang, Peter Nixon, Themba Radebe (2005) Small and medium forest enterprise - Brazil: A discussion paper Peter H. May, Valéria Gonçalves da Vinha, Duncan J. Macqueen (2005) Small and medium forest enterprise - China: A discussion paper Changjin Sun, Xiaoqian Chen (2005) Small and medium forest enterprise - Guyana: A discussion paper Raquel Thomas, Duncan Macqueen, Yolanda Hawker (2005) Small and medium forest enterprise - India: A discussion paper Sushil Saigal, Sharmistha Bose (2005) Small and medium forest enterprise - South Africa: A discussion paper Fonda Lewis, Juana Horn, Mike Howard, Steven Ngubane (2005) Small and medium forest enterprise - Uganda: A discussion paper Rosina Auren, Krystyna Krassowska (2005) Links to partners: Institute
of Natural Resources, South Africa Grupo
de Economia do Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável-GEMA,
250 - Terreo, Sala 07, 22290-240 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Project supported by: Department for International Development Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate General for Development Cooperation Contact: Duncan
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