This guide draws on several ACIAR projects, led by the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. It provides valuable information about the characteristics of coconut woody tissue and different processing equipment that can be used to produce rotary veneer. It also provides guidance on how to process coconut stems into veneer, along with the techniques to dry and grade the veneer sheets. Finally, it describes the production and testing of high-value engineered ‘cocowood’ products suitable for a range of appearance and structural applications.

  Enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of the planted forest industries in Lao PDR

This book draws on 10 years of research to provide a critical analysis of community-based commercial forestry (CBCF) as it is practised in Indonesia.

This report provides an exploration of the concept of payments for environmental services (financial benefits to land managers who, through improved practices, enhance environmental services such as carbon sequestration, protection of water quality and biodiversity conservation) and the value chains for wood products in Lao PDR. Both these topics are intrinsically linked by their focus on the forests of Laos and their aim of improving livelihoods for thousands of Lao people, many of whom live below the poverty line.

  Recent developments in acacia planting. Proceedings of an international workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 27-30 October 1997. ACIAR Proceedings No. 82.

Proceedings of an international symposium held in association with the 7th AAAP Animal Science Congress, Bali. Indonesia. 11-16 July 1994. This paper reviews the animal production potential of agroforestry systems. Factors influencing animal productivity include the forage contribution from tree and non-tree sources, competition between tree and understorey, compatibility between tree crop and animals, and the service role of the tree in ameliorating the microclimate of the animal.

Proceedings of an international workshop held at the Forestry Training Centre, Gympie, Qld., Australia, 4-7 August 1986.

This manual describes best practice for producing high-value flooring products from coconut ‘wood’, or cocowood. The information is intended for operators skilled in timber processing, who need to work with the unusual properties of cocowood, and specifies where cocowood processes differ from standard practice for timber.

This study provides information on the biology of balsa, the status of the balsa industry, and explores the relative merits of the main balsa production systems in PNG.

A symposium was organised in November 2006 in the Philippines, to provide an opportunity for bamboo researchers to present their findings. The peer-reviewed papers contained herein provide an opportunity to fully report on the research.

Essential oils - those oils usually obtained from leaves, fruit, bark or wood through steam distillation - are used as flavours or fragrances, and for medicinal or healthcare purposes

This monograph describes the outcomes of an ACIAR project which undertook a socioeconomic assessment of native forest use in Vanuatu

This book is an extensive revision and enlargement of 'Multipurpose Australian trees and shrubs: Lesser-known species for fuelwood and agroforestry', which ACIAR published in 1986

OUT OF STOCK - electronic version available This publications covers the outcomes of a research project funded by ACIAR aimed at developing the tree crops sub-sector in Papua New Guinea.

This impact assessment focuses on the net economic, environmental and social value of the spill-over benefits accruing to Vietnam

This monograph describes research activities and outcomes from the ACIAR funded project 'Enhanced Resource-Use Planning for Tropical Woodland Agroecosystems' based in Zimbabwe and northern Australia

The results published in this report reveal a considerable amount of genetic variation between provenances of Casuarina equisetifolia and provide important information for people interested in agroforestry and fuelwood production in the tropics and subtropics

This proceedings covers the papers presented at the 5th Pacific Rim Bio-based Composites Symposium that was held in Canberra, Australia on 10 December 2000

This technical report on Chukrasia has been prepared as part of ACIAR forestry project FST/1996/005

ACIAR has supported a project that helps develop domestication strategies for commercially important indigenous tree species in Southeast Asia

Fast-growing acacias are being used to reforest degraded grasslands and cutover rainforest in the humid tropics