Prospects for wood products trade under the new partnership for Africa’s development

Larinde, SL; Akande, JA; Agbeja, B. O.; Ntabe, Eric

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“…As a result, in this region the forestry exports declined from 3.6% to 1.9% (Agrawal et al, 2013). With the exception of Kenya, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, all countries in this region import nearly all of their paper requirements (Larinde et al, 2010). There was also a tendency of increase in the importing of wood products in the region (Kastner et al, 2011).…”

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“…Wood product market in sub-Sahara Africa is large and fast growing (Larinde et al, 2010).The export of processed wood products has been constrained mainly by factors such as poor quality of finished products, lack of information technology to access overseas market information, and government policies which are inconsistent with global trends (Larinde et al, 2010). As a result, in this region the forestry exports declined from 3.6% to 1.9% (Agrawal et al, 2013).…”

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The Status of Wood Products Supply and Demand in Ethiopia: A Review

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This review paper focused on the Ethiopian wood products demand and supply situation in the current and future time period. Fuel wood and industrial round wood products were considered in this review paper. The reviewed paper showed that the wood demand in Ethiopia growing fast due to increasing of purchasing power, economic growth, middle class, urbanization and construction boom. In 2015, the fuel wood demand estimated about 120.4 million m 3 RWE and industrial wood estimated approximately 8.4 million m 3 RWE. To meet the needs of the growing demand, a supply of 4.4 million cubic meters of industrial wood will need to close the gaps by the year 2033. Demand and supply gap of wood products showed high disparity and grow from time to time. The round wood gap estimated 1.8 million m 3 in 2013 and 4.4 million m 3 gap of supply by the year 2033. The total volume of wood products demand estimated 1.2 million m3 RWE in 2015 and 13.9 m 3 RWE by the year 2040. In the past years most of wood product supplied from woodlot and natural forest by logging while now it decreases and substitute by import products. In 2015, the country imported 3.006 million m 3 RWE of different industrial wood products. The imported products worth nearly USD 182.53 million and the domestic production was estimated about 5.43 million m 3 in 2015. The low level of industrial wood supply from domestic production is compensated by a large volume of imports. Between the years 2000-2013, the country has been imported 170,721.3 tons and estimate worth of 159 million USD and the import bill will reach 3 billion USD by the year 2035. The country also imported an average 65,680m 3 /year of different industrial wood products between the years 2007-2015. The main imported wood products were sawn wood, plywood and furniture. Ethiopia export small quantity of wood products. The trade balance between import and export showed that a negative trade balance between the years 2007-2015. The total estimated amount of import was 120,000m RWE and export about 35,000m 3 RWE. To narrow down demand-supply discrepancy and substitution of import volume, encouragement of investment is a crucial solution in forestry.

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Environmental Cost Accounting Implications on Timber Company Productivity in Cameroon

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2021

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Cameroon like many countries in the world pursues the achievement of sustainable development, positive relationship with the community, and effective and efficient environmental conservation activities. Organisations are expected to identify and incorporate costs of safeguarding the environment into their financial statements. The objective of this study was to identify the implications of some environmental costs prevention variables on the productivity of timber production companies in Cameroon. Specifically, it examined the effect of cost accounting for pollution prevention, global environmental conservation, and resource recycle on the output of timber companies. Through a survey, data was collected and analysed using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimation technique. The empirical results revealed that it is cost-saving and profitable to carry out cost accounting for pollution prevention, contribution to global environmental conservation, and resource recycling by environmental stakeholders. An increase in the cost accounting for any of these independent variables significantly improves the productivity of timber companies, since a more work-friendly environment is created for optimum production than if these costs were not accounted for. All environmental stakeholders should be adequately sensitised by the government and professional accounting bodies on the benefits accruing from incorporating realistic values of natural resources and the costs of environmental conservation in their financial records and statements. The government in its effort to make a realistic assessment of the income of the country should ensure that accountability is given for both operational contributions and operational impact on the environment.

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Prospects for wood products trade under the new partnership for Africa’s development

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The Status of Wood Products Supply and Demand in Ethiopia: A Review

The Status of Wood Products Supply and Demand in Ethiopia: A Review

Environmental Cost Accounting Implications on Timber Company Productivity in Cameroon

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