Forests in the Philippines, and many other developing countries in the tropics, have been extensively cleared over recent decades. There have been increasing efforts to reforest these cleared lands to achieve both socio-economic and environmental objectives. To date, planted forests have been...

The use of low quality forest reproductive material is one of the major reasons for the mixed results of past watershed rehabilitation programs in the Philippines. Since 2010, a national policy on forest nursery accreditation has been implemented to regulate the quality of forest reproductive...

This report summarizes the findings of an Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research contract entitled "A Financial and Social Analysis of Adoption of Small-Scale Forestry Including Australian Timber Species in the Philippines." The purpose of this research was to investigate the...

This paper explores the question of whether small-scale forestry is simply a scaled-down form of industrial forestry. The nature of small-scale forestry is first explored, including a discussion of the types of forest activities that are generally classified under this term. The motivation of large ...

This paper reviews forestry seedling production systems in South-east and East Asia and identifies problems with respect to seedling quality, seedling distribution and financial sustainability, and measures which have been adopted or advocated to improve performance in this sector. The paper draws...

Inequitable timber resource rents are a problem that has plagued tropical forest management in countries throughout the world, including Papua New Guinea (PNG), which exported 21% of the world's tropical hardwood logs during the last decade. Rural tropical forest resource owners (FROs) often have...

We apply self-determination theory (SDT) to explain how psychological outcomes on participants in 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD +) projects can provide lessons for other forest landscape management programmes. Evidence from REDD + case studies suggests that...

Community forest enterprises facilitated by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), using portable sawmills to produce rough-sawn lumber is one approach being pursued by tropical forest indigenous communities to improve their livelihoods. To investigate the profitability of portable sawmills...

Governments and international organizations are promoting or drafting programs to undertake Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) of hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded tropical landscapes to support the provision of ecosystem goods and services. But the challenge to recover economic and...

Data collection and maintenance of databases concerning smallholder forestry presents special problems in developing countries. This paper examines forestry data collection experiences in a series of research projects in Leyte, Philippines, supported by the Australian Centre for International...