FSC Publications - reports, guides and studies
FSC user-friendly guide to FSC certifcation for smallholders - Make more out of your forests!
This guide provides guidance on how you, as a smallholder, can seek FSC certifcation and be rewarded for your long-term and careful management practices. It provides an overview of what FSC certifcation is and highlights examples of actual and potential economic, social and environmental benefts. This guide includes information on existing resources that can help you obtain FSC certifcation. It also offers an insight into projects currently in development that could offer further attractive benefts for you to engage in FSC certifcation.
Download FSC user-friendly guide to FSC certifcation for smallholders - Make more out of your forests! (English / Spanish / French / Portuguese)
FSC step-by-step guide - Good practice guide to meeting FSC certification requirements for biodiversity and High Conservation Value Forests in Small and Low Intensity Managed Forests
This is a guide to help managers and owners of small-scale and low intensity forest operations maintain or improve the management of biodiversity and High Conservation Values (HCVs) within their forests. This guide is not designed to replace management plans – but to strengthen them. It is designed to help them meet FSC certification requirements for biodiversity and HCV conservation through the process of identification, management and monitoring. It explains some simple ways to protect and integrate forest biodiversity and HCVs into management of productive natural forests.
Download FSC step-by-step guide - Good practice guide to meeting FSC certification requirements for biodiversity and High Conservation Value Forests in Small and Low Intensity Managed Forests (English / French / Portuguese)
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FSC reflected in scientific and professional literature - literature study on the outcome and impacts of FSC certification
Summary: 'FSC reflected in scientific and professional literature' is a literary review of independent research and a compilation of findings on the outcomes and impacts of FSC certification in and beyond the forest. The report uncovers strong evidence that FSC can positively impact workers and communities, shift governance processes globally and change economical and environmental conditions in the forest. It marks one of the first outcomes from the FSC Monitoring and Evaluation Program, established in early 2008 to assess how FSC is delivering against its mission.
Download FSC impacts and outcomes - extracts from FSC literature review 2009
FSC Guide to integrated pest, disease and weed management in FSC certified forests and plantations
Summary: This guide provides a generic framework for Integrated Pest, Disease and Weed Management (IPM) on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified estates, which may include indigenous forests and plantations. The guide contributes to the implementation of the FSC Pesticides Policy, the core elements of which are: a) The identification and avoidance of 'highly hazardous' pesticides – use of which is only possible in exceptional circumstances; b) Promotion of ‘non-chemical’ methods of pest management; c) Appropriate use of any pesticides that are applied.
