Description: 

Goal
 

To increase the benefits that local communities derive from forest resources and thereby enhance their contribution to sustainable forest management
 

Objective: 

To promote processing of logging residues and trees on farmlands and thereby provide increased timber products as well as generate employment and income to local communities and some individual farmers.

Year: 
2007
Investigators: 

Mr. Lawrence Damnyag
Dr. Dominic Blay

Responsible party: 
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
Funding bodies: 
International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)