Over 100 000 guitars are produced every year in Santander, Colombia, representing over 70 percent of the country’s total annual guitar production. The production of musical instruments contributes to both the national economy and the preservation of cultural heritage through [...]

Strong laws help protect our forests. For these laws to be effective, it is important that those that are most likely to be impacted by them play a part in their creation. This requires offering a voice to the full range [...]

Tegucigalpa, 17 December 2021 Honduras is the first Latin American country to ratify a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) in Timber Products with the European Union. The country has made significant commitments to sustainable [...]

Forests cover just over 30 percent of the global land area, yet they provide habitat for the vast majority of known terrestrial plant and animal species. Unfortunately, forests, and the biodiversity they contain, continue to be threatened by illegal logging [...]

More than 25 percent of the global population, including one billion women, depend on forest resources for their livelihoods (FAO 2018). Despite the paucity of sex-disaggregated data, it is increasingly evident that women’s forest-related work often surpasses that of men, [...]

L’atténuation des effets du changement climatique et la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre à travers la lutte contre la déforestation et l’exploitation illégale des ressources forestières sont au cœur du Programme FAO-UE FLEGT et du processus [...]

Sustainable timber production and harvesting on public land in Thailand is central to national efforts to promote economic forestry and achieve the 15 percent increase in forest cover to reach the Thai government’s commitment of 40 percent coverage.  However, many [...]

Between 2016 and 2021, the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme (hereafter the Programme) supported over 100 projects in 20 countries to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) produce and trade legal timber and associated products. [...]

Hanoi, Viet Nam The Center for Education and Development (CED) has launched a hybrid in-person and virtual exhibition, featuring winning designs from a design competition using legal timber. Celebrating the potential of domestic plantation timber in furniture and housing design, the [...]

Honduran Minister-Director convenes with FAO leaders to define next steps for the implementation of the recently signed Voluntary Partnership Agreement On 27 September 2021, the delegation of the Minister-Director of the National Institute of Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and [...]