Covers the breadth of European Union experience in donor support to tropical forests, assesses the totality of its comparative advantage in this sector, and identifies key trends and issues for the future. The chapters cover each Directorate-General in the Commission with tropical forestry interests, and each Member State. In each case, the choices are made about aid to tropical forestry in terms of policies, themes, geographical areas and types of project traced, together with an analysis of aid delivery mechanisms. An overview chapter compares experiences, and looks at effectiveness and future trends.