Michael Garforth is a freelance forestry consultant and a Director with Tacsus Ltd, Tbilisi. James Mayers is Director, Forestry and Land Use Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and co-author of Policy that Works for Forests and People (2004), The Sustainable Forestry Handbook (2004).

• Executive Summary * Introduction * Part 1: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions: An Overview - Plantations, Livlihoods and Poverty * Plantation Development and Management: Drivers, Governance and Changing Roles * Balancing Acts: Reconciling Public Policy and Transfer of Ownership and Management * Conclusions and Ways Forward * Part 2: Country Case Studies - A Mixed Economy Commonwealth of States: Australia * Early Experience of Total Divestment: Chile * From Centrally Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China * Joint Management of State Forest Lands: Experiences from India * Corporation, Commercialization and Privatization: New Zealand * Juggling Social and Economic Goals: South Africa * From Plantation Development to Steward of the Nation's Forests: The UK * Notes * References * Index

Michael Garforth is a freelance forestry consultant and a Director with Tacsus Ltd, Tbilisi. James Mayers is Director, Forestry and Land Use Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and co-author of Policy that Works for Forests and People (2004), The Sustainable Forestry Handbook (2004).

• Executive Summary * Introduction * Part 1: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions: An Overview - Plantations, Livlihoods and Poverty * Plantation Development and Management: Drivers, Governance and Changing Roles * Balancing Acts: Reconciling Public Policy and Transfer of Ownership and Management * Conclusions and Ways Forward * Part 2: Country Case Studies - A Mixed Economy Commonwealth of States: Australia * Early Experience of Total Divestment: Chile * From Centrally Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China * Joint Management of State Forest Lands: Experiences from India * Corporation, Commercialization and Privatization: New Zealand * Juggling Social and Economic Goals: South Africa * From Plantation Development to Steward of the Nation's Forests: The UK * Notes * References * Index

Michael Garforth is a freelance forestry consultant and a Director with Tacsus Ltd, Tbilisi. James Mayers is Director, Forestry and Land Use Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and co-author of Policy that Works for Forests and People (2004), The Sustainable Forestry Handbook (2004).

• Executive Summary * Introduction * Part 1: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions: An Overview - Plantations, Livlihoods and Poverty * Plantation Development and Management: Drivers, Governance and Changing Roles * Balancing Acts: Reconciling Public Policy and Transfer of Ownership and Management * Conclusions and Ways Forward * Part 2: Country Case Studies - A Mixed Economy Commonwealth of States: Australia * Early Experience of Total Divestment: Chile * From Centrally Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China * Joint Management of State Forest Lands: Experiences from India * Corporation, Commercialization and Privatization: New Zealand * Juggling Social and Economic Goals: South Africa * From Plantation Development to Steward of the Nation's Forests: The UK * Notes * References * Index