ABSTRACT The South African forestry industry is predominantly based on plantation
forestry. More than 80% of the plantations were certified in a market driven certification …

Interest in forest certification as a means of promoting sustainable forest management
arrived in Zambia in the early 1990s. Before then, all forest management was done by the …

The role of wood and non-wood forest products in the national economy and their
contribution to poverty alleviation is a subject of discussion by many governments globally …

Teak is a tropical wood species and placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae. It has a
high degree of natural durability, moderately hard, excellent decay resistance, and good …

Certification envisages recovery of degraded Sudanese gum Arabic production and the
opening of new market opportunities abroad, since it assesses the extent of institutional …

Gum is a nontimber forest strategic product dominating the external market, which was
excluded from American economic sanctions during the 1990s, as it is a fundamental …

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