Forestry as an Entry Point for Governance Reform - Specialist Series - Forestry Briefing
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Tropical forests have been the object of intensive donor support for the last 15-20 years. Particularly striking is the way in which forestry has figured as a vehicle for wider environmental concerns, and has given them concrete expression. Early on, the focus was mainly on resource depletion (the threat of desertification, the fuelwood crisis, etc.) and on ways to rebuild tree stocks through plantations, village woodlots and on-farm tree-planting. Attention then shifted to the interests of the local people. The challenge now was to establish the extent of the goods and services which tropical forests provided to the forest-dependent poor, to capitalise on their management experience, and to safeguard their interests in contexts of rapid change. Since the Earth Summit at Rio (1992), interest has broadened to incorporate concerns for biodiversity (particularly in tropical moist forests), forest environmental services and sustainable forest management. In the last 2-3 years, the focus has shifted again – away from forest sector issues in their own right to forests as one dimension of the management of global and national public goods. Tropical forestry has begun to be recast in a wider frame of reference, as a sector with important insights on the theme of public governance. Forests and good governance
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