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Improving Financial Returns to Smallholder Tree Farmers in the Philippines (Proceedings from the End-of-Project Workshop Ormoc City, The Philippines 11–12 February 2009)

The research project ASEM/2003/052 – Improving financial returns to smallholder tree farmers in the Philippines – funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, was carried out in Leyte in the Philippines over the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2008. It was the third of a series of four ACIAR smallholder forestry projects. This so-called ‘tree farm project’ had a broad range of components, including: developing methods for inventorying trees on farms and timber yield prediction; investigating methods of improving timber marketing, including examining the activities of timber processors; assessment of the socio-economic circumstances of smallholder tree growers; investigating appropriate agroforestry systems; developing information, education and communication packages and monitoring their impacts; and examining options for forestry policy reform, in particular in relation to tree registration and related regulations. A systems approach was adopted in the project, designed to integrate the various research components so as to identify measures by which smallholder forestry could be supported and profitability increased, and hence rural livelihoods improved.

The end-of-project workshop for the ‘tree farm project’ was held at the Sabin Resort Hotel, Ormoc City, Leyte, over 11–12 February 2009. Delegates at the workshop were drawn from the research team, the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development, the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau Los Baños, Local Government Units and the Philippines National Oil Corporation. The workshop papers were presented under five themes – tree inventory and yield modelling, field trials, the socio-economic survey, the timber enterprise survey and market modelling, tree registration and harvest and transport approval, and forestry extension and policy – and a total of 27 research papers were presented.

The workshop, and indeed these Proceedings, have been designed to make the research findings available to a wider audience, to contribute to policy formulation and governance in support of smallholder forestry. Further details of the research findings are available in papers in various issues of the journals Small-scale Forestry, Agroforestry Systems and Annals of Tropical Research. In producing these Proceedings, we would like to thank the various contributors of the papers included, and particularly to acknowledge the funding support and encouragement of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research during the four-year project life.

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Improving Financial Returns to Smallholder Tree Farmers in the Philippines
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