Liberia is home to globally significant forests and most of its people depend on them for their livelihoods. But the restarting of large-scale timber extraction in the country has proven disastrous for local people, the environment, and efforts to strengthen governance. Nonetheless, recent actions ...
Forests can help rural households cope with food insecurity challenges in the face of climate change while also sequestering carbon and advancing other sustainability objectives in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As such, participation in the forestry sector can contribute to achieving the S...
objectives of the Liberia Country Forest Note are to (a) identify opportunities and shape a more programmatic approach to the World Bank's engagement (that is, further analytical support, policy actions, and investments) and (b) guide coordination with other development partners in the sector. Th...
The World Bank program on extractive industries in forest landscapes aims to ensure that this sector does not erode forest capital, but rather enables client countries and the World Bank Group to make better-informed decisions about minimizing trade-offs and maximizing benefits from forest-smart ...
One thousand twenty-six papers specifically addressed future climate change (rather than historical climate or gradient analysis). Of these, 88 % studied impacts, effects, vulnerability or responses to climate change in tree species, forests, forest ecosystems or the forest sector (Fig.1). The fir...
A case study of the development of tropical forests and forest industries in the countries of the African Timber Organisation. Applications of a computerized system to assist in sector planning: Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia. ... PA Thege ...
Food security effects of forest sector participation in rural Liberia Forests can help rural households cope with food insecurity challenges in the face of climate change while also sequestering carbon and advancing other sus... FO Amadu,DC Miller,RN Strange - 《Food Security》 被引量: 0发表: ...
He further said organizing such functions would help enhancing knowledge on forest laws and policies, and create momentum for change in the forest sector by ensuring that it encourages and support evidence based discussions and promote sensitization, lobbying, negotiation, dialogue and debates on forest...
A cross-country assessment of the cost of carbon sequestration in the forest sector is needed for planning and achieving climate commitments, such as the Paris Agreement, at global, regional, national, or sectoral scales. We provide a global and bottom-up assessment of the break-even carbon pri...
More than 40 % of the world’s 4 billion hectares forests are located in tropical regions and cover 1.73 billion hectares which corresponds to nearly half of the tropical land area. Deforestation – mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultur