A new agenda for forest conservation and poverty alleviation: making markets work for low-income producers

By S. Scherr, A. White, D. Kaimowitz. 2004

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Citations in the corpus

• Invisible But Viable: Recognising Local Markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (2007, background): “Thus, “for many poor forest-based people, who lack knowledge, skills, inputs, capital and connections, local NTFP markets will continue to be important and a good place to build local entrepreneurial capacity” (Scherr et al. 2004).”
• Establishment of native tropical timber trees in monoculture and mixed-species plantations: Small-scale effects on tree performance and insect herbivory (2011, background): “Introduction Smallholders and communities strongly contribute to deforestaion in Central America (FAO, 2009; Scherr et al., 2003).”
• Tree species diversity and ecosystem function: Can tropical multi-species plantations generate greater productivity? (2006, background): “…of fast growing monoculture plantations has resulted in a groundswell of community opposition in a number of tropical countries, as this type of reforestation does not provide many of the traditional forest goods used by communities and few of the ecological services (Scherr et al., 2004).”
• Climate Change: Financing Global Forests: The Eliasch Review (2008, background): “…that for every one job in the formal sector there are another one or two jobs in the informal sector – up to 1 per cent of the global labour 16 World Bank (2004) 17 UNDP, UNDESA and World Energy Council (2003) 18 www.fao.org 19 Scherr et al (2003) 20 Chomitz et al (2006) 21 Sunderlin et al (2008)”
• Trends and future potential of payment for ecosystem services to alleviate rural poverty in developing countries. (2010, background): “Access to market information and supportive local institutions can improve the bargaining position of rural land stewards and communities (Scherr et al. 2004).”