Cameroon has the largest forest area in africa. industrial logging operations export timber products to Europe, america and asia, and informal chainsaw milling (Csm) operations supply the domestic market and many other african countries. The Ònorthern trailÓ is an informal supply chain that...

The Tanimbar islands are of great interest for their biodiversity (lidon and kartiwa 2005). located in the province of maluku, indonesia, their main city, saumlaki, is also a district capital. The islands were extensively studied during the Tanimbar land-use planning project, funded by the...

The central issue addressed in this paper is whether geographic indication (GI) can be applied as a tool to encourage some furniture industries and teak producers to take collective action to improve teak product quality and increase global market competitiveness. This paper explores the...

Since the 1970s world trade in unprocessed wood or preprocessed wood reached a stable level between 150 and 200 million m3, while, since 1985, world consumption varies between 3.2 and 3.4 billion m3 annually1. Thus, woodwork networks seem to be caught between two worlds with virtually...

This paper analyses the side effects of the stricter regulation on tropical hardwood or timber imports. It considers the place of Europe within the global timber market, where Europe accounts only for a very limited share. It also explains the high selectivity of European markets, with its...

En prenant comme modèle la production et le commerce international des bois tropicaux, cet article analyse la mondialisation. Dans un premier temps les forêts tropicales sont resituées face à l’évolution des activités humaines et des opinions publiques. Contrairement aux idées recues,...

En prenant comme modèle la production et le commerce international des bois tropicaux, cet article analyse la mondialisation. Dans un premier temps les forêts tropicales sont resituées face à l’évolution des activités humaines et des opinions publiques. Contrairement aux idées reçues,...

Planté depuis de nombreux siècles à Java, le teck y a été particulièrement développé au XIXème siècle. Les 200 000 ha de plantation de teck à Java constituent la plus grande plantation de cette essence au monde. Cette ressource est néanmoins surexploitée, et des ONG mettent en...

In the state of Acre (Brazil), keys of development are the valorization of natural resources, which include non-ligneous and timber products. The need to develop a sustainable wood industry lead to assess markets that can be targeted from Acre in an sustainable and economic way. The objective of...