Timber legality, local livelihoods and social safeguards : implications of FLEGT/VPA in Ghana : proceedings of an international workshop
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Abstract:
This publication is the proceedings of a workshop under the research project ‘Illegal or Incompatible (IOI)? Managing the consequences of timber legality standards on local livelihoods’ jointly organised by the project partners. It contains a number of well-researched presentations as well as case studies on how Timber Legality Standards (TLS) under the voluntary partnership agreements (VPA) may affect the lives of rural communities, especially those dependent on timber extraction and trade for their livelihoods. It also captures a SWOT analysis of the VPA and covers other concepts like good forest governance, social safeguards and presents a research agenda and policy messages with respect to managing the impacts of timber legality standard on livelihoods.
Country:
Ghana
Category:
Practice
Editor:
Owusu, B.
,
Nketiah, K.S.
,
Aggrey, J.
,
Wiersum, F.
ISBN:
978-9988-1-1957-7
Keywords:
communities
,
forestry
,
governance
,
trade
Language:
eng
Organization:
Tropenbos International
PAGE:
x, 129
Place:
Kumasi
Publisher:
TBI Ghana
Year:
2010
Region:
West Africa
Right:
© 2010 TBI Ghana
Subject:
Environment and Natural Resources
Title:
Timber legality, local livelihoods and social safeguards : implications of FLEGT/VPA in Ghana : proceedings of an international workshop