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Title: Forests to Fight Poverty: Creating National Strategies by Ralph Schmidt, Joyce K. Berry, J. C. Gordon ISBN: 0300078455 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00

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Summary: Forests to Fight Poverty offers guidelines, but no solutions
Comment: Forests to Fight Poverty began with a questionnaire to United Nations Development Program resident representatives to assess the usefulness of a book outlining the interwoven problems of poverty and forest destruction. The resident representatives agreed that there is a need for such a text and provided information about the needs of smallholder farming families in their countries. It is immediately clear that no one global solution will apply to all nations. This book begins with the implication that sustaining the forest can in turn sustain the people who live in and near the forest. It goes on to identify general principles for forest management that should apply globally. For example, the any management scheme should be monitored for its success and able to be altered in response to the data collected. The authors recommend that governments work with the local people and non governmental organizations to create policies that can sustain the forest. However, it is not clear to me that any real solutions can be generated when so many groups are trying to be heard. This approach also implies a true democratic society, which is certainly not in existence in all developing countries with threatened forests. Forests to Fight Poverty gives a comprehensive look at deforestation and forest management , but it is very dry reading. Only the truly dedicated reader will find the will to get through this book.