Sandewall M., Kassa H., Wu S., Khoa P.V., He Y., Ohlsson B.
Policies to promote household based plantation forestry and their impacts on livelihoods and the environment: Cases from Ethiopia, China, Vietnam and Sweden
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Resource Management, Umeå, Sweden; Centre for International Forestry Research, Forests and Livelihoods Program, Ethiopia Office, P.O Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Dong Xiaofu 2#, Haidian District, Beijing, China; Forestry University of Vietnam, Xuan Mai, Chuong My, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Sandewall, M., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Resource Management, Umeå, Sweden; Kassa, H., Centre for International Forestry Research, Forests and Livelihoods Program, Ethiopia Office, P.O Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Wu, S., Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Dong Xiaofu 2#, Haidian District, Beijing, China; Khoa, P.V., Forestry University of Vietnam, Xuan Mai, Chuong My, Ha Noi, Viet Nam; He, Y., Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Dong Xiaofu 2#, Haidian District, Beijing, China; Ohlsson, B., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Resource Management, Umeå, Sweden
The growing economies in the South, market globalization, population growth, social conflicts and climate change increase the strain on land and forest resources, and require a cost effective and ecologically sound production of goods and services to meet public needs. Based on global assessment data, four country level (Ethiopia, China, Vietnam, Sweden) and six local case studies and using a multi-scale approach, this paper examines trends and drivers in household based plantation forestry and reviews how policies affecting forest plantation and land use are interpreted and implemented at the local level. It discusses how sustainable forestry systems and policies can be developed which provide industrial supplies, promote environmental objectives and support the livelihoods of people. Besides reflecting characteristics and diversity of current trends in plantation forestry, the paper illustrates that local landscape studies could help in explaining trends revealed by national inventories in a way relevant to policy and research.