Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Country Report - The Philippines

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WORKING PAPER SERIES

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/33

by

Forest Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Manila

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

October 1997

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission. This report comes under Workplan Number C16.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.

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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

1. THE CONTEXT IN WHICH THE FORESTRY SECTOR IS DEVELOPING

1.1 Highlights of Social and Economic Situation

1.1.1 Population
1.1.2 A Background on the Economy
1.1.3 Recent Economic Performance

1.2 Highlights of Long-Term Objectives/Goals on Place of Forestry in National Development

1.2.1 Goals
1.2.2 Objectives
1.2.3 Current Programmes
1.2.4 Accomplishments

1.3 The Role of the Country in Forestry in a Regional Context
1.4 Major issues relevant to forestry development in the country

1.4.1 Lack of funding for forestry development programmes
1.4.2 Logging Ban Issue
1.4.3 Increasing Population
1.4.4 Uncertainty Brought about by Changing Trends in Tropical Wood Products Trade

2. THE STATE OF FORESTRY IN THE COUNTRY AND MAJOR TRENDS

2.1 Highlights of the Significance of the Sector, its Principal Characteristics, Key Recent Developments.

2.1.1 Environmental Significance
2.1.2 Economic Significance

2.2 The Forest Resources (Status and Trends) - State of forest proper, forest/trees in the agricultural context and trees outside the forest, tree crops (rubber and palm wood)

2.2.1 Forest Resource Situation
2.2.2 Status of Other Tree Crops

2.3 Protected Areas and Wildlife Resources
2.4 Wood-Based Industries

2.4.1 Trends and Developments
2.4.2 Domestic Demand
2.4.3 Status of Wood-Based Industries
2.4.4 Wood Products Trade

2.5 Wood Energy
2.6 Non-Timber Forest-Products (NTFP)
2.7 Forestry Institutions

2.7.1 The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
2.7.2 Forestry Research
2.7.3 Forestry Education
2.7.4 Forest Policies and Programmes

3. FUTURE DIRECTIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BASIC DATA SHEET - PHILIPPINES

LIST OF WORKING PAPERS ALREADY RELEASED