Chainsaw milling : supplier to local markets

Wageningen

2010

XXII, 225 S.

Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

Bandaufführung

978-90-5113-094-2

170832

Chainsaw milling, the on-site conversion of logs into lumber using chainsaws, is supplying a large proportion of local timber markets with cheap lumber. While it offers socioeconomic opportunities to local people, it is very often associated with corruption and illegalities. Regulating and controlling the practice is a challenge due to the mobility of these chainsaw milling operations.
Domestic timber production and trade are to a large extent unrecorded. Information in this issue of ETFRN News shows that in some countries it represents a high percentage of total timber production, ranging from 30–40% (in Guyana, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo/DRC and Uganda), to more than 50% (in Ghana, Cameroon and Peru), and almost 100% in Liberia.
Governments of tropical countries around the world have failed to address the domestic timber demand and struggled to deal with the CSM subsector, which is often informal. International negotiations and agreements on tropical timber production also tend to disregard local timber consumption, although the local timber trade might be affected by these international agreements and vice versa. The European Union (EU) Action Plan for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and the (future) climate change agreements (through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD+) might be able to provide incentives to regulate local timber trade.
The 28 articles in this issue of ETFRN News cover 20 countries: seven in South America and the Caribbean (section 2); four in Asia (section 3); and nine in Africa (section 4), providing a good overview of the opportunities and challenges of chainsaw milling as a supplier to domestic and regional timber markets.
Contents: Section 1. A technical overview ; 1.1 S awmilling with chainsaws: a technical overview ; Section 2. Country studies from Asia ; 2.1 Domestic demand: the black hole in Indonesia’s forest policy ; 2.2 L ocal timber demand and chainsaw milling in Papua, Indonesia ; 2.3 The chainsaw economy in Tanimbar Archipelago, Indonesia ; 2.4 L ocal processing of logs to increase smallholder share, Lao PDR ; 2.5 Financial analysis of small-scale harvesting in Papua New Guinea ; 2.6 Chainsaw milling in the Philippines ; Section 3. Case studies in the Caribbean and South America ; 3.1 The development of small-scale logging in Bolivia ; 3.2 Chainsaw milling in natural tropical forests: a case study in Bolivia ; 3.3 S ustainable management of guadua bamboo forest, Colombia ; 3.4 Forest communities and legal timber in the Ecuadorian Amazon ; 3.5 Chainsaw milling and Guyana’s LCDS; 3.6 The chainsaw milling subsector in Guyana ; 3.7 Chainsaw milling in the Caribbean ; 3.8 The impact of REDD+ projects on chainsaw milling in Peru ; 3.9 Chainsaw milling in Suriname ; Section 4. Case studies in Africa
4.1 Chainsaw milling in the Congo Basin ; 4.2 The chainsaw supply chain in Cameroon: the northern trail ; 4.3 Chainsaw milling in community forests in Cameroon ; 4.4 Chainsaw milling and poverty reduction in Democratic Republic of Congo ; 4.5 Chainsaw milling in Ghana: context, drivers and impacts ; 4.6 Chainsaw milling in Ghana: assessing its economic impact ; 4.7 Chainsaw milling in Kenya ; 4.8 Chainsaw milling and national forest policy in Liberia ; 4.9 Chainsaw milling in Nigeria ; 4.10 Chainsaw milling and rainforest dynamics in southern Nigeria ; 4.11 Chainsaw milling in Uganda ; Section 5. Chainsaw milling and legality regimes; 5.1 Developing timber legality regimes