Cabrera, Jorge, Olivier Rukundo & Frederic Perron-Welch, The Interface between Sustainable Forest Management and Access and Benefit Sharing: Outlining Potential Areas of Synergy (Montreal: CISDL, 2010)
Available here CISDL_ABS_and_Forest_Study_2010
The question of access and benefit sharing (ABS) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (the Convention) embraces a complex and varied set of issues that are directly relevant to sustainable forest management (SFM). Forests are some of the most important repositories of biodiversity, and genetic resources are often used in support of forest-related activities (i.e. tree breeding, sylviculture, product processing). The use of forest genetic resources and forest resources in general involves a broad range of stakeholders who are either custodians, providers or users of forest resources. Furthermore, the harvesting and consumption of natural forest products is often a significant component of the lives of people who live near forest resources. Forest policy is thus often punctuated by the twin objectives of ensuring resource conservation while allowing for the sustainable use of forest resources by forest-dependent communities and other users.