Australia - Investment
- Bush
for Greenhouse - linking industry and landholders. Bush for Greenhouse
is an initiative of the Prime Minister’s greenhouse package Safeguarding
the Future: Australia’s Response to Climate Change. Funding of $5.5 million
has been allocated to the program over five years.
- Agribusiness
Research - was established to cater for the agricultural MIS research
needs of the investment community.
- Lonsdale Securities
- is an ASX-participating organisation offering: · execution and settlement
of trades in listed stocks · research in managed funds and direct equities
· corporate advice and speciality research via strategic alliances.
- The Sydney Society
of Financial Analysts - promote ethical and professional standards within
the investment industry, encourages professional development through the
CFA Program, and facilitates the open exchange of information and opinions.
Australia - Management Companies
- PINETEC - Plantation
Establishment and Management in Australia
- Vemco
Forestry - is a wholly owned subsidiary of VEMCO AUSTRALIA and is involved
with the ownership and management of commercial forest interests. VEMCO
FORESTRY concentrates on adding value to new and existing plantations. This
is achieved through the creation and outworking of innovative programs and
trialing new and high value timber species.
- Greenfield
Resources Options Pty Ltd - The parent company of the GRO group. There
are four main business divisions in the GRO GROUP; these are: Forest plantation
development: Providing management services for investors for establishment
and management of both hardwood and softwood plantations. Greenhouse and
renewable energy: Delivery of strategic advice, development and management
of carbon sinks, together with measurement, monitoring and verification
of carbon stored in soil and vegetation systems. Project evaluation and
development for plantation grown energy crops as sources of renewable energy
and for carbon sequestration Farm & timber management: Provision of services
for the management of native vegetation, principally on farm land in Queensland
and New South Wales, and sustainable management of production forestry on
privately owned native forests. Forestry and natural resource consulting:
Delivering high quality technical and commercial consulting advice to add
value to our clients' businesses in forestry and agriculture.
- "ESS
BizTools" - was developed to assist professionals to communicate on
a far more meaningful basis with their small/medium sized business clients
on "business of business" related matters. The material has been produced
as individual papers on a wide range of subjects, all of which have some
bearing on the operations of a small/medium sized business. The papers can
be referred to on your computer screen or printed as you desire.
Australia - Marketing and Sales
- Australian Wood Exports 2001
- - Australian Bureau of Statistics merchandise trade - unpublished data
Wood of Dark Red Meranti, Light Red Meranti and Meranti Bakau, in the rough,
untreated, Tropical wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or
sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated.
- Capital Office Furniture
Manufacturer - manufactures and wholesales a complete range of commercial
office furniture that is distributed through a network of retailers in the
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria
- Macrison Company
- To create, produce, market and sell the creative and commercial essence
of people in business
- Furnishing
Industry Association Of Australa - FIAA is an industry association representing
businesses in all the sectors of the furnishing industry. It has branches
throughout Australia. The FIAA exists exclusively for the furnishing industry,
unlike the generalised employer bodies. Recognised as the voice of the furnishing
industry by Federal & State Governments, media and the general public.
- Welcome to LandAndFarm.com™
- the website that sets the standard for buying and selling land and
farms on the Internet! (American Site with Australian Listings)
- Southern
Hemisphere Forestry - Let us open the way for the Forest Products Trade
between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Do you have trade inquiries
regarding Southern Hemisphere forest products? Are you trying to make a
connection with foresters, producers and suppliers in the Southern Hemisphere
- Austral
Plywoods - manufactures plywood from 100% Australian grown plantation
Hoop Pine
Australia - Funding
- NIDP
Pilot Commercialisation Project (PCP) - The main activity of the NIDP
programme is to provide funding assistance for 'pilot commercialisation'
of new agribusiness products and services. PCP funding is available to assist
in taking a new product, service or technology from initial market assessment
and R&D (laboratory or trial crop stage) through formation of chain relationships,
pilot trials and development of business strategies and proposals to a state
of readiness for full-scale commercial investment. Grants for pilot commercialisation
projects are provided on a matched dollar for dollar basis with the applicant,
to a maximum NIDP contribution of $100,000.
- AusIndustry
- delivers around 30 products and services with a total value of around
$2 billion to around 8,000 customers annually. Many of the Commonwealth
Government's programs delivered by AusIndustry are specifically designed
to encourage innovation as a key growth strategy. AusIndustry's programs
and services fall into 5 primary areas: · General Industry Incentives ·
Industry Specific Incentives · Information Services · Innovation · Venture
Capital.
Australia - Publications
- Leveraging
Private Investment: A Discussion Paper - Prepared for the Business Leaders
Roundtable June 2001. A group of leading businesses have joined with the
Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and taken up the challenge of identifying
how to mobilise substantial private sector funds to address salinity, biodiversity
decline and related environmental problems in Australia.
- Making
Farm Forestry Pay – markets for Ecosystem Services A Scoping Study to Set
Future Research Directions - A report for the Rural Industries Research
and Development Corporation by Carl Binning, Brendon Baker, Seona Meharg,
Steve Cork and Allen Kearns January 2002. This report addresses the challenge
of how to make farm forestry pay by identifying key issues connected with
providing incentives and commercialising the environmental and social values
associated with agroforestry. It introduces the role of markets for ecosystem
services in delivering ecological products to investors. It does so with
reference to the role of both the government and non-government sectors.
- Legumes
for Forestry Systems - Incorporating animals into timber plantations
in an agroforestry system can allow earlier cash income to be made from
the land. Six species of tropical legume (Desmodium intortum cv. Greenleaf,
D. canum CQ1781, Arachis pintoi cv. Amarillo, Macrotyloma axillare cv. Archer,
Vigna luteola cv. Dalrymple and Calopogonium mucunoides 43428) were tested
for dry matter production under four levels of light (37%, 24% and 16% of
the unshaded control). Photosynthetic light response curves were also determined
for plants from the 100% and 16% light intensities. Overall C. mucunoides
displayed the greatest adaptation to low light levels, consistently producing
comparatively high yields of dry matter under reduced light levels, with
D. intortum also showing promise for use under shaded conditions.
- Investment
In Northern Australia - This paper has been prepared at the request
of the Commonwealth, Northern Territory, Queensland and West Australian
Governments, to explore investment opportunities across Northern Australia.
This is basically the top half of Australia plus the territories of Christmas
Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which have in common a tropical and
sub-tropical climate, encompassing both wet, arid and semi-arid regions.
- Australia’s
Forest And Timber Industries - Resource and Opportunity Plantations
in Australia “offer the best returns” to investors. AFFA This document provides
information on Australia’s current and future timber resource, together
with potential investment opportunities associated with this resource. The
document is consistent with Strategic Imperative 2 of the Plantations for
Australia, the 2020 Vision.
- Emerging markets
for environmental services - Implications and opportunities for resource
Management in Australia. - A report for the RIRDC/Land & Water Australia/FWPRDC
Joint Venture Agroforestry Program. By Martin van Bueren November 2001 RIRDC
Publication No 01/162 RIRDC Project No: CIE-12A Several countries are experimenting
with various programs for commercialising environmental services. The United
States is at the forefront in this endeavour, and the United Kingdom is
beginning to investigate alternative mechanisms. This report documents the
findings of a study trip that was made to these countries in June 2001.
The focus of the study was to critically review several ‘real life’ markets
and prototype programs that have been established for trading environmental
services and to identify the key ‘stepping stones’ which have enabled successful
programs to evolve from the design phase through to implementation.
- Cost
Sharing for Biodiversity Conservation: A Conceptual Framework - The
staff research paper, by Barbara Aretino, Paula Holland, Anna Matysek and
Deborah Peterson, was released on 11 May 2001. The paper discusses the principles
for sharing the costs of conservation between individuals, groups and the
general community. It illustrates situations in which the different cost
sharing principles may be relevant and highlights some issues that arise
in determining who should pay for biodiversity conservation.
- Competitive
Neutrality in Forestry - Commonwealth Competitive Neutrality Complaints
Office. Several studies have pointed to underpricing of logs by State forest
agencies in past years. Underpricing can affect the balance between public
and private sector wood production.
- Forestry
And National Competition Policy - Australian Conservation Foundation.
This Report clearly identifies that state forestry departments are continuing
to under-cut private plantations by subsidising the logging of native forests
with taxpayers’ money.
- Developing
a Market in Biodiversity Credits - One vision of a future rural economy
sees landholders receiving payments, not only for the commodities they produce
but also for the environmental services that they provide by managing their
properties in a particular manner. One method of achieving this is would
be through Government funded stewardship payments, but a more interesting
alternative would be the development of markets whereby landholders could
trade not only carbon sequestration credits, but also salinity control credits
and even biodiversity credits.
- Defining an alternative
paradigm for farm forestry - Tim Costello talks of the power of stories
to actuate community change. The key is to tell a new and powerful tale,
one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred
story that shines some light into the future so we can take the next step
forward (Costello 1999). Plantation forestry in Australia, particular where
it involves farmers, needs a new story. The current dominant myths and paradigms
are not only failing farmers for whom forestry promises so much but are
leading many extension agents, researchers and policy makers down a hard
road of farmer rejection and personal frustration.
- Environmental
Partnerships Combining sustainability and commercial advantage in the agriculture
sector - This Report explores the use of environmental partnerships
as a means of improving environmental and commercial outcomes in the agriculture
sector. Such partnerships are defined as follows: An environmental partnership
is a cooperative agreement between, on the one hand, business, and, on the
other hand, one or more second parties (government) and/or third parties
(eg environmental organisations or commercial entities, including other
parts of the supply chain), whereby business voluntarily undertakes to achieve
certain environmental improvements in exchange for some benefit provided
by other partnership participants
Australia - Articles
- How
to be successful in plantation development - Abiding by seven principles
of good plantation management will help ensure plantation viability by Julian
Evans. Professor of Tropical Forestry and Chairman, Commonwealth Forestry
Association
- Farmwood Australia
- The foundation for a cooperative pooling of the tree growing cooperatives
of Australia. Farmwood Australia represents farm forestry and private non-industrial
tree-grower co-operatives and like organisations throughout Australia. Each
organisation runs independently but can combine resources to meet market
requirements where appropriate. The widely dispersed growers with their
equally dispersed species, quality and quantities of resource are of limited
use to themselves or to industry. Aggregated they have the opportunity to
be part of the real world.
- How HIH Came a Cropper
- With a royal commission looming, one of HIH’s most curious failed deals
has come to light: two years ago it insured a risky get-rich-quick scheme
to grow Chinese trees near Corowa. Now many of the saplings are dead sticks
and ASIC is investigating. Ben Hills reports.
International - Investment and Management
- Hardwood
(Tropical) Markets - independent monthly journal providing information
on hardwood resources and markets worldwide, includes “TROPICAL TIMBERS”
first published 1985. Gives equal emphasis to temperate and tropical hardwoods
and all related issues & provides statistical data, analysis and commercial
information.
- PF
Olsen & Co. - New Zealand's largest forest management consultancy, PF
Olsen and Company Ltd has over 50 staff in 9 offices throughout New Zealand.
The company was founded in 1971 by the late P F Olsen, and has grown steadily
since its establishment. Today we manage some 43,000 hectares of plantation
forest for individuals and corporate clients. Many are owned by offshore
interests.
International - Marketing and Sales
- EcoSecurities
Ltd. - provides leading edge expertise in emerging environmental markets,
focusing on greenhouse gas mitigation, sustainable forestry, renewable energy
and finance. (See Australian Plantation Timber)
- ITTO -
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) was created by treaty
in 1983 and its headquarters was established in Yokohama, Japan, in late
1986. The primary idea is to provide an effective framework for consultation
among producer and consumer member countries on all aspects of the world
timber economy within its mandate.
International - Publications and Articles
- Forestry
Economics - For years I thought that rates of tree value growth were
the same as their biological growth rates. I didn’t know how to make these
estimates, so I went to the forestry literature to look for more information
- The potential role of forest
plantations in meeting future demands for industrial wood products -
This paper presents a forecast of the supply and demand for wood and wood
products to the year 2010 and three forecasts of future potential industrial
roundwood supply from forest plantations to the year 2050. The forecasts
predict that overall wood supply and demand is expected to increase by about
25% from 1996 levels to just under 1.9 billion m3 in 2010. Of this, it is
expected that the potential supply from forest plantations will increase
from around one-quarter of total supply at present, to around one-third
of total supply in 2010.