Traduction de «Propriété forestière » (Français → Anglais) :

It is clear that the high summer temperatures and the lack of rain were a key factor, but there were others which hampered the rural development measures applied by the national authorities: the exodus from the countryside and the resultant ongoing abandoning of farming activities which have traditionally preserved forests; the lack of incentives to collect biomass; the excessive fragmentation of forest ownership; reforestation using species inappropriate to the Mediterranean climate; inadequate technical and human resources for fighting fires; inadequate monitoring of human activity at times and in areas of high fire risk; and, fi ...[+++]nally, permissiveness with regard to building on farmland or forestland.

The problem of the fragmentary nature of forest ownership was circumvented by means of associationism, which made it possible for a coordinated approach involving simultaneous work on most of the area devastated by fire.

I am not against private forest ownership.

Social factors which are of relevance to forest sector investments include conflict over land and access to forest resources (for example, disputed land ownership, or contradictions between official and traditional land ownership rights).

Donors, including the EU and Member States, can give greater weight to these initiatives by providing support to community-based forest management, by helping to propagate lessons from these schemes in national laws and policies, and by working with partner governments to ensure that key underlying factors, such as land tenure and access to forest resources, encourage local participation in the fight against illegal logging.

Fragmentation of private forest holdings may lead to further difficulties and higher costs in forest management, reducing mobilisation of wood and undermining the provision of forest services.