HC Deb 09 June 1986 vol 99 cc49-50W
Mr. Freeson

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide an updated list of projects to encourage sustainable forestry in those countries which are aided by the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the Overseas Development Administration; and if he will give details of the financial sums involved.

Mr. Raison

The list is as follows:

Current projects to encourage sustainable forestry aided by the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the Overseas Development Administration

COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

  1. 1. Fiji—Pine Commission plantation £4,167,000
  2. 2. Ivory Coast—Hardwood Plantations £13,800,000
  3. 3. Jamaica—Forest Industries plantations £5,700,000
  4. 4. Swaziland—Shiselweni and Usutu forest plantations £6,593,000
  5. 5. Tanzania—Tanganyika Wattle Company plantations £326,000
  6. 6. Zambia—Forest and Forest industries plantations £1,100,000

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

  1. 7. Bangladesh—Research on bamboo pathology (total cost figure not available)
  2. 8. Belize—Forest utilisation advice £150,000
  3. 9. Cameroon—Forestry education and training £225,000
  4. 10. Central America—Forest tree breeding and conservation £285,000
  5. 11. Ghana—Forest Inventory £900,000
  6. 12. Honduras—Advice on pine forest protection and regeneration, and on tropical forest management £240,000
  7. 13. India—(i) Karnataka Social Forestry Project £15,030,000
    1. (ii) Mysore Paper Mills Reafforstation Project £10,330,000
  8. 14. Jamaica—Advice on forest plantations and forestry training £400,000
  9. 15. Kenya—Embu-Meru-Isiolo Reafforstation Project £1,283,000
    10. 50
  10. 16. Lesotho—Forest Woodlots Project £2,109,000
  11. 17. Nepal—Forestry Research Project £2,557,000
  12. 18. Solomon Islands—(i) Reafforestation Research Project
    • £600,000
  13. (ii) Advice on forest management and utilisation £600,000
  14. 19. Somalia—(i) Forestry education and training £1,348,000
    1. (ii) Forestry inventory £247,000
    2. 20. Sudan—Forestry component of Northern Region Irrigation Rehabilitation Project £242,000
    3. 21. Vanuatu—Reafforestation Project £1,760,000
    4. 22. Yemen Arab Republic—Dhaman Agricultural and Forestry Research and Development Project (Forestry component cost not available separately)

In addition, the Overseas Development Administration spends about £500,000 a year on forestry research projects which have global or regional significance.