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Brazil
TFF’s Brazil program aims to accelerate
the adoption of sustainable forest management (SFM)
principles and reduced impact logging (RIL) practices
among producers in the Amazon Region. TFF’s Brazilian
subsidiary, Fundacao Floresta Tropical (FFT), implements
the program through demonstration, training, and research
and documentation.
TFF provides in-situ training at its own
forest camp at Cauaxi in Para State. Courses are provided
in all aspects of forest management and harvesting
in the context of a working forest. Participants from
the private forest sector, government, and educational
institutions are orientated in a "hands-on" environment. This site
also provides the working area for research into RIL,
silviculture, and related forest management topics
for both Brazilian and international researchers.
In addition, almost half of FFT’s
training activities are delivered as extension services
to forest management units around the country and
the region. To-date, over 2,000 persons have received
training in one or more of FFT’s training courses.
FFT also provides practical training for participants
from neighbouring countries.
FFT has established close links with
a wide variety of government, educational, and research
institutions and is a key participant in the development
of a permanent training facility for SFM-RIL in
the Brazilian Amazon.
FFT’s program is currently
being supported by USAID (Global Bureau), USAID-Brazil,
USDA-Forest Service Office of International
Programs (USDA-FS) and the ITTO. In September,
2003, the International Tropical Timber Organization
(ITTO) announced that an earlier ITTO grant to
FFT had been evaluated as one of the best three
ITTO projects ever. FFT is now receiving funding
support under a new ITTO grant.
Our Brazil
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zweede@fft.org.br |
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Johan Zweede, Project Director |
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Mail Address |
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Fundação Floresta
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Balem, Para
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55.91.229.8371 |
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Fax |
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55.91.249.7923 |
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website |
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www.fft.org.br |
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