Activities in the transition area of Niubeiliang include agriculture, animal husbandry, forest products.
In 1996 Mark Suwyn, the head of forest products for International Paper, quit to become chairman of building products manufacturer Louisiana-Pacific Corp.
According to our estimates, Norfolk stock derives nearly 20% of its value from its construction freight and forest products divisions.
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With better growing conditions there may be more food and forest products for harvesting, and that means lower prices for consumers.
In the ensuing decade, Oregon pioneered tough land-use regulations, curbing industries that relied on forest products and declaring war on suburban sprawl.
You can help spare it from the bulldozer by buying forest products.
The effect in the tropics should be even greater due to the inefficient nature of markets for tropical forests and forest products.
But forest products have always been cut in remote and distant areas and thrown in a pipe and spit out on the other side.
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They offer a wealth of ecosystem functions and services (freshwater, biodiversity, forest products, minerals, habitats for threatened species), and landscapes and cultures of exceptional value.
As Europe's largest paper, packaging and forest products company it is sensitive to the declines in home construction and newsprint volume and to general European fears.
To encourage this shift, they issued a raft of incentives for forest conservation, such as tax breaks for non-timber forest products like rubber, palm hearts and nuts.
Indigenous groups have now found that FSC is a new and powerful tool in their negotiations with forest products companies about access to, and use of, traditional lands.
Domingos Nicolodi is a cattle rancher who wants to take over 6, 000 hectares of land exactly in the area the settlers are already using to collect forest products.
The Morgan Stanley Commodity Related Index (CRX) is an equal-dollar weighted index of 20 stocks involved in commodity related industries such as energy, non-ferrous metals, agriculture, and forest products.
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Over decades, he built up his private Kraft Group--which includes holdings in paper and wood company International Forest Products, real estate and a private equity firm--into a fully integrated, billion-dollar company.
Tom Gayner initiated holdings in Resolute Forest Products Inc.
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That has rankled the extremist NGOs, like ForestEthics and Greenpeace, which advocated a more adversarial stance, convinced that the SFI and the Forest Products Association of Canada was secretly undermining the agreement.
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Resolute Forest Products Inc is a Delaware Corporation.
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In December, Greenpeace pulled the trigger, claiming it had proof from GPS-tagged video and pictures that one of the coalition industry members, Resolute Forest Products, was building logging roads in areas forbidden by the agreement.
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Under Harold Geneen, an Englishman who headed the American company for many years, ITT simultaneously owned bakeries, telephone companies, hotels and a forest-products business.
And the intrepid value players are finding them in some of the most unlikely areas of the economy, such as farming and the struggling forest-products industry.
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Today company has stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, fibers and polymers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology.
The Forest Stewardship Council provides certification for the forestry industry and its products.
Training rural women about the Maya nut has made them champions of rain forest conservation and reforestation, as well as entrepreneurs who turn Maya nut products into income.
The chain-of-custody certification in the FSC system provides strong assurance that products produced in compliance with the standards can be traced from the forest, through any and all processing, and right down to the final product sold to consumers.
Raised on a farm near the Black Forest in the spa town of Baden-Baden, about 50km north of Baiersbronn, he said he prefers products in their natural state, thanks to a childhood spent eating gathered food.
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