PLANTATION FORESTRY IN THE TROPICS – TRENDS AND PROSPECTS

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Greater changes have taken place in plantation forestry since the late 1970s than at any other time. The area of new planting is probably more than 1 million ha per annum: more than double the figure of 15 years ago but still only one tenth of the current rate of tropical deforestation. The bulk of new projects and initiatives now aim to meet social and environmental forestry objectives rather than industrial ones. Integration of forestry and farming (agroforestry) is now being widely evaluated. Arid zone planting, especially to meet fodder, firewood and fencing requirements, has greatly increased. Funding for plantation development has encouraged social forestry programmes as these are now accorded high priority by development banks and bilateral aid projects etc, and has been aided in the social forestry sector by greatly increased involvement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The rate of new planting must continue to increase and the priority of meeting social objectives maintained if increasing hardship among the rural poor is to be avoided.

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