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Kajiado County Sustainable Forest Resources Management And Exploitation (Charcoal ) Policy 2018

open access: yes, 2018
The goals of this policy document is to ensure at least 10% forest cover to ensure climate change adaptation and resilience in Kajiado County; promote sustainable exploitation of forest resources for holistic environmental conservation and protection and

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Forest resource management in Sierra Leone : a critique of policy formulation and implementation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This research identified the two principal reasons for unsustainable forest management in Sierra Leone as inadequate forest policies and policy implementation.
Konteh, William
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Swedish forest commons - A matter of governance?

open access: yes, 2010
Around 100 years ago, when Crown land in the interior of northern Sweden was privatized, part of the forest and was set aside as forest commons. Today, there are 33 such forest commons jointly managed and owned in common mainly by private forest owners ...
Lidestav, Gun,   +3 more
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New Frontiers of Forest Economics: Forest economics beyond the perfectly competitive commodity markets

open access: yes, 2016
The paper provides an overview of the papers included in this special issue, and presents thoughts about New Frontiers of Forest Economics. The paper argues that science does not mean analysis alone; it should be complemented by synthesis and forest ...
Kant, Shashi   +5 more
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest policies in Europe: Issues, actors and research activities

open access: yes, 2016
Within COST Action FP1207 "Orchestrating forest policy analysis", Working Group 1 (WG1) has been investigating forest-related targets and measures. The group members held five meetings and, additionally, three Short-term Scientific Missions (STSMs) were ...
Weber, Norbert
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25 Years of EU Forest Policy—An Analysis

open access: yes
A comparison between the most relevant forest-focused and forest-related EU policies from the time periods of the three EU forest(ry) strategies of 1998, 2013 and 2021 has revealed an overall rise in the number of forest-related policies that is mainly ...
Norbert Weber   +2 more
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Forest Certification Perspectives in the Wood Products Supply Chain in Virginia, U.S.A.

open access: yes, 2017
Participation among private forest owners, logging contractors, and wood products manufacturers in the forest certification sector remains low. Those that enroll are mainly large-acreage owners and specialized manufacturers.
John Munsell   +9 more
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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