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Good practice guidelines for HCV assessments: A guide for practitioners & auditors
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2008, ProForest
This document sets out good practices for the identification and management of High Conservation Values (HCVs), and HCV forests and areas. It provides detailed guidance on the HCV assessment process, and should be of particular use to HCV practitioners involved in planning and conducting such an assessment, and to certifying bodies auditing HCV identification reports and management plans. Particular emphasis is placed on requirements to maintain the robustness and credibility of the process, which should be a priority for forest or land-use managers implementing an HCV management plan. This document will be particularly useful for assessments of large, complex or controversial cases.
Assessment, Management & Monitoring of High Conservation Values: A practical guide for forest managers
2008, ProForest
This guide is intended for forest and land managers. It should help those interested in the sustainable management of forests and those committed to certification against the Forest Stewardship Council’s Principles and Criteria for Responsible Forest Management. This guide is intended to help with the identification of high conservation values and the definition of appropriate management and monitoring measures. It focuses on the key steps that are necessary for robust, credible and transparent decisions.
Forest Governance and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
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2007, Chatham House Energy, Environment and Development Programme
Presented at the UNFCCC in Bali, December 2007. This paper sets out a number of lessons from ongoing efforts to improve forest governance, which should be considered at both the design and implementation stage of a potential REDD mechanism, and suggests that those countries that improve their forest governance, clarify tenurial arrangements and address illegality are more likely to achieve reduced deforestation and benefit from potential REDD investment than those that do not.
Developing a mechanism for palm oil traceability from plantation to end user: Discussion paper for RT3
2005, ProForest
Discussion paper for RT3. This report contains a summary of options for chain of custody and traceability for palm oil.
Developing a mechanism for palm oil traceability from plantation to end user: A background review of supply chain traceability options
2005, ProForest
A background review of supply chain traceability options prepared for RSPO
The Forest Certification Handbook - 2nd Edition
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2005, Earthscan
This book gives practical advice on developing, selecting and operating a certification programme which provides both market security and raises standards of forestry management.
The Sustainable Forestry Handbook - 2nd Edition (2005)
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2005, ISBN 1844071189
The Sustainable Forestry Handbook is the essential aid to understanding and implementing new standards of forestry management. Aimed primarily at forest managers and management teams in tropical, developing countries, this informative guide is based around the Forest Stewardship Council’s Principles and Criteria and the International Tropical Timber Organisation Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management.
Les Critères de Bâle pour une culture du soja responsable
2004, ProForest
Elaboré par ProForest en collaboration avec le WWF Suisse pour Coop Suisse.
Die Basler Kriterien für einen verantwortungsbewussten Soja-Anbau
2004, ProForest
Erarbeitet von ProForest für Coop Schweiz in Zusammenarbeit mit dem WWF Schweiz.
Os Critérios Basel para a Produção Responsável de Soja
2004, ProForest
Elaborado por ProForest para a Coop Switzerland em cooperação com WWF-Switzerland.
Criterios de Basilea para una producción responsable de soja (soya)
2004, ProForest
Preparado por ProForest para Coop Switzerland, en cooperación con el WWF de Suiza.
The BASEL Criteria for Responsible Soy Production: Local interpretation for use in Brazil
2004, ProForest
Prepared by ProForest for Coop Switzerland in cooperation with WWF Switzerland.
Forest Certification: A Review of Impacts and Assessment Frameworks
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2004, The Forests Dialogue (Yale University)
Executive summary of the impacts of forest certification, and four assessment frameworks, commissioned by The Forests Dialogue (TFD).
Os Critérios Basel para a Produção Responsável de Soja: Interpretação local para uso no Brasil
2004, ProForest
Elaborado por ProForest para a Coop Switzerland em cooperação com WWF-Switzerland.
The Basel Criteria for Responsible Soy Production
2004, ProForest
The Basel Criteria for Responsible Soy Production have been developed by drawing on widely accepted existing criteria and standards such as Eurepgap standards and ILO conventions. This should ensure that they are compatible with the requirements of other users and schemes.
HCVF for conservation practitioners
2004, ProForest
This document is aimed at conservation practitioners. It introduces the idea of HCVF, how HCVF fits in with other conservation initiatives and approaches, a decision tool for deciding whether to implement HCVF projects and links to practical tools for implementing HCVF and examples of where it has to be done.
HCVF Toolkit Part 2: Defining High Conservation Values at a national level - a practical guide
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2003, ProForest
Part 2 provides a practical methodology to be used at a national level for defining High Conservation Values. The intended audience is working groups, which will often be part of a standards development process.
HCVF Toolkit Part 1: Introduction to HCVF
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2003, ProForest
This is the final text of HCVF Toolkit. The document is being formatted for final release, which will be during January 2004.The document comes in three parts. Part 1 gives a general introduction to the concept of HCVF and how different users can apply it.
A Sourcebook for Landscape Analysis of High Conservation Value Forests (Version 1)
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2003, ProForest
With input from Nigel Dudley and Ketut Deddy. The concept of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) originated as a means to ensure that the most important forest values were correctly managed in the context of Forest Stewardship Council certification, and hence in individual forest management units. The idea has, however, rapidly gained interest and credibility on a wider stage. This sourcebook provides initial guidance to groups who want to conduct and use HCVF analysis at a landscape-scale.
Certificaçáo em grupo: um guia prático
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2003,
Um guia prático direcionado `aqueles interessados em desenvolver sistemas de certificação de grupo de acordo com as normas do FSC.
Modular Implementation and Verification (MIV): a toolkit for the phased application of forest management standards and certification
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2003, ProForest
Modular Implementation and Verification (MIV) provides a practical tool for achieving phased or stepwise application of forest management standards and certification.
Feeding the Market: South American Farmers, Trade and Globalization
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2003, Kumarian Press ISBN 1-56549-172-6
The debate about the pros and cons of globalization has become increasingly polarized and yet the voices of the rural poor are seldom heard. This book rises above the fray to examine what is happening at the interface between globalization and producers in the South. The authors illustrate the practical obstacles that farmers face in accessing markets especially with respect to the difficulties of meeting market demands for quality of produce along with quantity and continuity of supply.
HCVF Toolkit Part 3: Identifying and managing High Conservation Values Forests - a guide for forest managers
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2003, ProForest
This part of the Toolkit is aimed at forest managers, other land managers, investors, donors, and conservation practitioners who wish to implement HCVF in the absence of a ratified FSC national standard.
Palm Oil, Forests & Sustainability
2003, ProForest
Perceptions of serious, unresolved problems in the oil palm sector have led to increasing concern from a variety of institutions, including local and international NGOs, the regulatory agencies of national governments, donors and other financial institutions. This discussion paper, the first of two written for the Round Table on Sustainable Oil Palm, identifies some of the major issues facing the sustainable cultivation of oil palm. For some of these issues, there is little agreement on the nature of the problem. In other cases, technical solutions exist and the extent to which they are implemented is examined.
Technologies for Wood Tracking: Verifying and Monitoring the chain of Custody and Legal Compliance in the Timber Industry
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2003, World Bank
World Bank - WWF Alliance report
Defining sustainability in oil palm production: An analysis of existing sustainable agriculture & oil palm initiatives
2003, ProForest
In this, the second technical discussion paper for the Round Table on Sustainable Oil Palm, information is provided about existing initiatives which seek to define or implement 'sustainability' in some form for oil palm plantations. The paper examines the degree to which these existing initiatives (from both within the oil palm sector and outside) address the key issues of sustainability for oil palm production. Options for defining 'sustainability' and assessing its implementation are discussed.
Getting Small Forest Enterprises into Certification: How standards constrain the certification of small forest enterprises (2002)
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2002, Forestry Research Programme , ProForest
With input from Fernando Aguilar, Aurea Nardelli and Hannah Scrase This report examines the constraints facing small forest enterprises which derive specifically from forestry certification standards, discusses the causes of these constraints, and offers a number of options for reducing the barriers. The report will be of interest to anyone working in forest certification or standard-setting, especially where they are likely to be working with small enterprises.
Assessing Forest Certification Schemes: A Practical Guide (2002)
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With input from Patrick Armstrong, Pierre Hauselmann, Sophie Higman, Markku Simula and Nancy Vallejo. This practical guide identifies and discusses the features which make a forest certifications scheme reliable and effective providing users with a sound basis for making their own assessment of a particular scheme.
How standards constrain the certification of small forest enterprises - Annexes 1-4
2002, ProForest
Group Certification for Forests: the Model Documents
2002, ProForest
Templates for procedures and other documents needed to develop a group certification scheme available here as Word documents.
Group Certification for Forests: A Practical Guide (2002)
2002, Forestry Research Programme , ProForest
With input from the Soil Association Woodmark Programme, the Rainforest Alliance SmartWood Network and SGS Qualifor.
Involving Harvesting Contractors in Forest Certification (2002)
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2002, Forestry Research Programme , ProForest
Guidance for loggers, harvesting contractors and others involved in forest operations with an interest in certification.
Contractors and Certification: How does Forest Certification Impact the Use of Contractors (2001)
2001, ProForest
One of the requirements of most certification standards for forestry is that the welfare and rights of the forest workforce are considered and protected. Within this overall requirement the issue of contractors needs to be considered.
An analysis of the barriers faced by small-scale farmers and communities producing timber outside a conventional forest matrix, and recommendations for progress: Final Report (2000)
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2001, ProForest
An analysis of the problems faced by small landowners providing timber outside a forest environment.
Forest Certification: Verifying Sustainable Management (2000)
2000, ProForest
Paper presented at the workshop on Streamlining Local-Level Information for Sustainable Forest Management, 28-30 August 2000, University of British Colombia, Canada.
An Analysis of Current FSC Accreditation, Certification and Standard-Setting Procedures Identifying Elements Which Cause Constraints For Small Forest Owners (2000)
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2000, Forestry Research Programme , ProForest
The FSC's requirements for accreditation, certification and national standards and the constraints these cause to small forest enterprises seeking certification. An analysis of the issues and recommendations for action.
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