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Tropical
Forestry
Must Read
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 DEVELOPMENT
 The Dimensions of Need
An Atlas of Food and Agriculture.
FAO 1995
ISBN 92 5 103737
Now a little dated but provides an interesting overview of aid.
Getting Aid Delivery Right
Host country, donor and international complementarity for greater forest sector aid effectiveness
Forest Policy and Environment Group
European Union Tropical Forestry Paper 4
ODI, London. 1999
The blurb states: written for a wide audience, the study will be of relevance to all those who are concerned
with tropical forestry
policy, and the ways in which the international community can support national efforts to arrest tropical
deforestation and
biodiversity loss.
Back to National Realities
Rethinking International Assistance to Forestry Development
Frühling, Pierre and Persson, Reidar
ISBN 91-586-7547-7
In booklet form, a good, short contribution to the debate regarding the role, the means and the goals
of forestry assistance.
The EU Tropical Forestry Resource Sourcebook.
Editor Shepherd, G.et al . 1998.
ODI
ISBN 0 85003 318 7
An invaluable guide to how the EU is structured and the type of forest projects it has been funding.
The guide also covers the
policy and actions of the individual members of the EU on their approach to forestry aid as bilateral
donors. The recent re-organisation of the DGs means that some sections are now slightly
out of date .
Forests in Sustainable Development.
Guidelines for Forest Sector Development.
EU 1998. Three Volumes. Available on CD Rom
ISBN 92-827-8465-7
This is the main planning tool used by the EU in designing, implementing and appraising projects in
the forestry sector. An
essential reference tool for those involved in project preparation missions or project management on
behalf of the EU.
European Tropical Forestry Advisers Group
(ETFAG)
9th Meeting Minutes.
In addition to the proceedings, there are annexes of interest: “Improving Aid Delivery” by Gill Shepherd;
“Assistance to forestry”
by Reidar Persson; “Common strategy for the EU development co-operation in the forestry sector” by Mersmann
and Liss; and
“Harmonisation of European Development Strategies in Forestry” Guy Duke.
Available from NRI.
Aid to Forestry
International Forestry Review Vol.2(3) Special issue, September 2000
ISSN 1465 5489
This special issue has a wealth of articles from all perspectives on aid to forestry under three parts:
Part 1: Policies of aid agencies and implementation in forestry
National Governments
International agencies
Part 2: Research studies of aid programmes
Part 3: Generic issues.
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