Dr Lennart Ackzell Taking Stock of Smallholder and Community Forestry Montpellier, 24-26 March 2010

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Forest Owners Associations
Dr Lennart Ackzell
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8. • Land tenure in place
• Rapid market development
• Political panicking
• Forest service established
• Legal requirement of
reforestation
• Legal stop for company
land purchase
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10. History of Swedish Family
Forest Owner Movement
1900-1930 Pioneering
Local co-operatives initiatives
Spreading of state ownership
Forest service support
1933 National start up
National Federation of
35 Regional Association (RA)
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12. History of Swedish Family
Forest Owner Movement,
continued
1933-1950 Improved Wood Market
Forming of fair and more
balanced wood market
Fire-wood supply during wartimes
1950-1975 Strengthened RA-organisations
Strong Local Districts
Increasing industry ownership
Concentration 35  10 RA
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13. History of Swedish Family
Forest Owner Movement, continued
1975-1990 Crisis and Restoration
Cost escalation and losses
Forest Mechanisation
Full forest service
1990-2010 Consideration and Value chains
SFM and Certification
Customer orientation
Global markets
Concentration 10  4 RA
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14. Forest Ownership
7%
18%
50%
25%
Other public State Company Family
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19. Forest Owners Associations
Number of associations 4
Number of member holdings 90 000
Number of individual members >125 000
Associated area 6,2 million hectares
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20. The member structure
Mellanskog •National Federation
•Association
•Region
•District
•Members
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21. Activities of associations
Economic Cooperatives
• Pricing, marketing, timber trade, certification
• Protection of rights 
Influencing forest policies
• Forestry services, urban owners
• Industrial processing
• Training, extension, information
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22. CEPF – in 24 countries
Austria France Netherlands
Belgium Germany Norway
Greece Portugal
Bulgaria
Hungary Slovakia
Czech
Republic Ireland Spain
Denmark Latvia Sweden
Estonia Lithuania Switzerland
Luxemburg United
Finland Kingdom
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23. Created 2002
The International Family Forestry Alliance
is the global voice of family forestry,
representing more than 25 million forest
owners worldwide.
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24. The Right Holders Group
with support from
the Growing Forest Partnership
The International Alliance for Indigenous
and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest
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25. Common grounds
• Secure land tenure
• Free associations
• Local benefit
• Attachment to land
• Protection of rights
• Involvement and engagement of local people
• Whereby:
• Sustainable Forest Management
• Better livelihoods, poverty eradication
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26. Summary
• Fundamental importance of
involvement of local communities
and people
• Sustainability and long term planning
follow secure tenure or users rights
• Forest owners in collaboration
provides the basis for respect from
market and officials and better
livelihoods
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30. Thank you very much
for your attention!
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