Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: People and Forests in Asia and the Pacific: Situation and Prospects













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By

R.J. Fisher
Somjai Srimongkontip
Cor Veer

With the assistance of

Michael Victor
Nitiya Kijtewachakul

Regional Community Forestry Training Centre
Kasetsart University
P.O. Box 1111
Bangkok 10903
Thailand

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY
WORKING PAPER SERIES

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/27

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
December 1997

Regional Community Forestry Training Centre

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 E27.4 (a).

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

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

NUMBERS OF FOREST 'DEPENDENT' PEOPLES AND TYPES OF PEOPLE FOREST RELATIONSHIPS

Geographical Patterns
Themes and Issues

Indigenous Forest Management Systems and Practices
Swidden Cultivation
Non-Timber Forest Products
Logging - The Timber Industry
Environmentalism
Migration into Forest Areas

Policy, Trends and Initiatives

Agroforestry
Collaborative Approaches to Forest Management

Poverty Alleviation and the Control of Forest Resources

Poverty Alleviation
Tenure

TRENDS AND SCENARIOS: THE FUTURE

REFERENCES

APPENDIX 1 - FOREST DEPENDENT PEOPLE AND ECOZONES

APPENDIX 2 - TERMS OF REFERENCE