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Zum Waldnaturschutz besteht inzwischen eine schwer überschaubare Vielfalt an sich stetig weiterentwickelnden Konzepten, Förderprogrammen und Umsetzungsstrategien. Im deutschsprachigen Raum wurden produktionsintegrierte Waldnaturschutzkonzepte durch die grossen Forstbetriebe für den öffentlichen Wald und die Forstverwaltungen aufgebaut. Dies sowohl...
Integrating nature conservation effectively in forests managed for timber production implies reconciling a trade-off between ecological and economic objectives. In continuous cover forest management, this culminates in decisions about tree harvesting (or retention) determining both the prevalence of tree-related microhabitats in the forest and the...
Habitat trees provide microhabitats for many forest-related species, and thus habitat-tree retention is one of the main measures to integrate nature conservation objectives into forests managed for wood production. By setting aside habitat trees, forest managers have to solve a crucial tradeoff between economic and environmental benefits. Therefore...
Marteloscopes are multifunctional training tools that can create a better understanding of forest management and have been developed as didactic tools for virtual tree selections. With this paper the authors provide explanatory information on the more than 40 Marteloscopes that were established in the course of the project Integrate+. It presents t...
This report further describes and compares the different 'forest management packs' , that were developed by Cosyns & Vandekerkhove (2014). It evaluates their compatibility with different economic and ecological goals.
Social capital is an important pillar of farmers’ livelihoods and its importance for sustainable rural development has been recognised. Nevertheless, the creation of social capital through external interventions remains challenging. This study investigated the generation of social capital within a rural development project of the World Agroforestry...
The present study assesses the impact of a rural development project on farmers’ livelihoods, as perceived by farmers, development organization staff and researchers. The project concerned, aimed to increase small-scale farmers’ financial benefits by promoting the commercialization of Ricinodendron heudelotii (Baill.) Pierre ex Pax kernels (njansan...
Ricinodendron heudelotii kernel (njansang) commercialization has been promoted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in project villages in Cameroon with the aim to alleviate poverty for small-scale farmers. We evaluated to which extend development interventions improved households’ financial situation by comparison of project and control househ...
