Forestry Development and Farmers' Investment Competence in Forestry

Farm Forestry Investment in Ireland Under Uncertainty

This paper develops a model to explain farmers’ decision to move from agricultural activities to forestry. Farmers in Ireland have strong links with land and are reluctant to enter into forestry even when the returns from it exceed those from farming. This paper examines whether the reluctance among farmers to plant forestry originates in the nature of forestry investment, which is characterise...

Forestry Economics and Development in Malaysia

The study attempts to fill a gap in Malaysian forestry economics, an area relatively less probed compared to the other important primary commodities of Malaysia. The core of the thesis are two econometric studies. The first concerns estimating supply and demand elasticities of the three main Malaysian wood products sawlogs, sawnwood and plywood. Demand is split up into export and home demand to...

Sustainable Development of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry

Automation in Forestry – Development of Unmanned Forwarders

For the last 50 year, forestry operations have become more and more mechanized. In modern forestry in Europe two machines are typically used; a harvester that fells, debranches and cross-cuts the trees into logs and a forwarder that transports them to the nearest road. These machines are technically advanced and quite expensive, but have a very high production rate. In fact, the productivity is...

Integer programming in forestry

After finishing my Ph.D. in Berkeley in 1971, I needed a job in the San Francisco Bay Area, while my wife was finishing her Ph.D. in statistics. It was a tough year jobwise and the only available position was a part-time job with the US Forest Service Station in Berkeley, which funded a position as a Research Engineer at the OR Center at UC Berkeley. My boss and friend up to today, Daniel Navon...