Small-scale forestry provides important environmental protection, landscape conservation and rura... more Small-scale forestry provides important environmental protection, landscape conservation and rural development benefits as well as timber production in many countries. However, small-scale forestry faces many challenges in developed and semi-developed countries, especially associated with aging, declining birthrate, depopulation, and unemployment in rural districts. In order to establish sustainable small-scale forest management and to succeed it to future generations, with some countries are responding by developing policy measures such as structural reforms of fragmented forest land, consolidation of forest practices, concentration of governmental subsidies and enhancing the role of forest owners' cooperatives.
Small-scale forestry provides important environmental protection, landscape conservation and rura... more Small-scale forestry provides important environmental protection, landscape conservation and rural development benefits as well as timber production in many countries. However, small-scale forestry faces many challenges in developed and semi-developed countries, especially associated with aging, declining birthrate, depopulation, and unemployment in rural districts. In order to establish sustainable small-scale forest management and to succeed it to future generations, with some countries are responding by developing policy measures such as structural reforms of fragmented forest land, consolidation of forest practices, concentration of governmental subsidies and enhancing the role of forest owners' cooperatives.
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