Se pondrán a disposición subvenciones de hasta 110 000 USD a través de esta convocatoria para apoyar el proceso AVA en curso en el país destinatario. El procedimiento de presentación mediante esta convocatoria se consistirá de dos fases sucesivas. En [...]

A public portal of forest governance information has been launched in Ghana, aimed at improving transparency in the country’s forest sector and ensuring the credibility and integrity of the Ghana Wood Tracking System (GWTS). The Ghana Timber Transparency Portal is part [...]

El estudio intenta buscar los puntos críticos de la cadena de valor en donde el vínculo entre el bosque y el consumidor final se distorsiona, en donde el origen legal de los productos del bosque se vuelve borroso o, peor [...]

The Central African Republic (CAR) has a total land area of 623,000 km2 of which close to 23 million hectares, i.e. 37%, is composed of forested lands. In the southwestern part of the country all forest operations are industrial. At [...]

21 February 2018, Rome — Sustainable value chains that reinforce the legal production, sale and purchase of timber are integral to good forest governance and to efforts to halt deforestation and increase the world’s forest areas, according to experts in [...]

Lima, Peru – Representatives of national and regional associations within the wood product industry across Latin America are meeting in Lima, Peru this week to examine the shared challenges and opportunities of responsible trade. Discussions are focusing on issues of competitiveness and [...]

Accra, Ghana – Timber buyers and producers in Ghana discussed how to ensure a reliable supply of legal timber against a backdrop of rising domestic demand as well as a proposed national public procurement policy. Participants at a recent workshop in Accra [...]

Douala, Cameroon - Improved transparency in Cameroon’s forest sector – a key requirement of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union (EU) – is playing a critical role in the gradual establishment of a legal timber sector in [...]

El Programa FAO-UE FLEGT proporciona apoyo técnico y recursos a proyectos en 23 países.

Vientiane – La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) está intensificando su apoyo al comercio de madera legal en la República Democrática Popular LAO con el lanzamiento oficial de dos nuevos proyectos que consolidarán [...]