The Voluntary Partnership Agreement: the Ghanaian and Malaysian experience

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The Voluntary Partnership Agreement: the Ghanaian and Malaysian experience

This paper looks at how the Voluntary Partnership Agreement is working by using the Ghanaian and Malaysian experiences on this process. The difference in the forest management system in both Ghana and Malaysia, in itself poses some challenges to the implementation of the VPA. Further, the multi-stak...

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Main Authors:	Attah, Alhassan, Ioras, Florin, Abrudan, Ioan Vasile, Ratnasingam, Jegatheswaran
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	2009
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7041/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7041/1/The%20Voluntary%20Partnership%20Agreement.pdf

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