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62 CARVING UP THE CONGO WILL DONORS’ SUBSIDIES SUPPORT THE ROAD-TO-RUIN POLICY? In the absence of land use planning and governance, the emphasis of the World Bank’s strategy to drive development for the people of the DRC has shifted from attempts to control the resurgence of the logging industry’s operations (eg through the moratorium and legal review) to attempts to control its social and environmental impacts through the development of forest management plans. ‘As USAID has long recognized, donors encounter extreme difficulty and little success in trying to use foreign assistance (grants and loans) to impose new behavioural norms in political systems based on the “rule of men” rather than the “rule of law”.’ 377 ARD report for USAID, 2003 ©Mauthe/<strong>Greenpeace</strong> The coordinator of forestry for Equateur Province at Mbandaka told <strong>Greenpeace</strong> in October 2006 370 that although he has had reports that there are problems with Trans-M, he does not have the resources to investigate the matter. The local forestry authority at Befale – even more poorly resourced than its provincial head office – is largely cut off from the supervision of the provincial coordinator, although he is ‘aware’ that the branch has problems, such as low wages, no transport and no proper equipment, which makes it extremely dependent on the good will of companies such as Trans-M. Representatives of the Ministry of Development are also present in Befale, but they too are without capacity, skills or equipment. In the absence of strategic zoning, in a context of corruption and weak institutional capacity, de facto land use planning is rapidly taking place through the expansion of destructive logging practices. This happens even in areas already identified by the international community as priority areas for conservation and responsible management. In February 2007, international donors attending a conference on the DRC were asked to help logging companies with the cost of doing business in Central Africa. The head of the Interafrican Forest Industries Association (IFIA) 371 – which represents some 300 companies in the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the DRC and Angola – asked for ¤75 million to subsidise the cost of developing forest management plans. 372 Despite the complete lack of institutional capacity in the DRC, the French and German Governments accordingly intend to provide public money to support the preparation of forest management plans for the DRC operations of Danzer’s Siforco (see pages 82–85). The German development bank KfW is looking to support development of a forest management plan for titles within Siforco’s K8 holding. 373 The French development corporation Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is considering financial support for development of a forest management plan for titles within Siforco’s K9 holding. 274 Logging may start in 2007 in these areas. It is highly questionable whether an international company, with an annual turnover of over ¤400 million, 375 should benefit from foreign aid assistance in a country where people are still dying from starvation, and where corruption and institutional incapacity are major hurdles to progress. Siforco is currently the largest timber producer in the DRC, producing some 90,000m 3 of timber in 2005 – more than 20% of the entire industrial timber production for that year. 376
63 CARVING UP THE CONGO Given the desperate shortage of institutional into China. 382 Logging titles near the Maringa–Lopori–Wamba Landscape SICOBOIS SIFORCO K8 TRANS-M CFT SODEFOR SIFORCO K8 SOFORMA SIFORCO K9 SODEFOR TRANS-M SIFORCO K9 SIFORCO K9 SEDAF SOFORMA SIFORCO K2 SEDAF FORABOLA SIFORCO K7 Maringa River SEDAF Congo River CFT SOFORMA TRANS-M Befale Djola Lopori River FORABOLA Intact Forest Landscapes Logging Titles Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape Its current logging operations take no account of sustainability parameters: timber production is dictated in response to industrial demand of combined with the absence of a land use planning process, this at best a highly questionable use of taxpayers’ money. Danzer’s sawmills. 378 French and German government funding for Siforco’s logging activities are currently within the most productive intact forest areas within its titles, which hold the highest densities of valuable hardwood. Titles have been logged solely with a view to efficient extraction of key species. 379 In 2005, just three species – sapele, iroko (Milicia excelsa) and sipo (Entandrophragma utile) – made up 63% of Siforco to meet statutory commitments would give the company a competitive advantage, and facilitate the expansion of industrial logging operations into intact forest landscapes. This would contribute to undermining the future potential of the DRC to protect its biodiversity and its continued provision of global climate services. the total volume logged. 380 This practice of high grading inevitably leads to a need to move on rapidly to new areas of intact forest. 381 Timber from Siforco is imported into European countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, The Netherlands and the UK. It is also imported capacity in the DRC’s forestry service,
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