This activity focuses on expanding the commercialization of forests resources for national and international markets.

It consists of:

• encouraging ‘pastoralists, investors, associations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and institutions … to produce forest and forest products that are qualitatively competitive, according to the rules of the customary communal land management, and supply the local and international markets’;
• protecting and producing ‘quality forest products that have high demand in local and international markets’;
• conducting ‘activities that would protect forest resources under the holdings of any person from man-made or natural disasters’;
• undertaking ‘activities that contribute to fight forest degradation’;
• controlling and protecting the ‘movement of genes of endangered plant species’;
• stablishing ‘proper systems to control movement of forest resources and products’.

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