Surveys conducted in seven Asian countries show that community forests boosted resilience across the continent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic A new report published by RECOFTC shows that millions of people across Asia have been better able to cope with the COVID-19 [...]

Le Centre de recherche forestière internationale (CIFOR) et le Ministère des Forêts et de la Faune (MINFOF) ont lancé ce jour une campagne nationale de sensibilisation sur l’utilisation du bois d’origine légale dans les principaux centres urbains du pays. Sous [...]

More than 2.4 billion people rely on firewood and charcoal for cooking, energy and income around the world (FAO 2017). These resources are commonly associated to deforestation and unsustainable, informal value chains. Since 2010, the Association of Women Producers and [...]

In 2020, the Viet Nam rubber industry contributed an estimated USD 7.86 billion to the Vietnamese economy. Smallholder rubberwood producers manage more than half of Viet Nam’s rubber plantations; approximately 260 000 households harvest upwards of 1.3 million cubic meters [...]

Avec le projet « Projet Femmes et Forêts : Contribution à la restauration et la reconstitution du couvert forestier ivoirien », le MINEF et la FAO ouvrent la voie à une meilleure implication des femmes dans la gouvernance des ressources [...]

The European Union and Germany have published a position paper on Cameroon’s proposed timber legality verification and traceability system, the Système informatisé de gestion des informations forestières – SIGIF2, accessible here (French) and here (English). The EU and Germany, through its development cooperation [...]

The Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Peru has released a report outlining a new and updated method to calculate illegal timber production and trade in the country.  The report, completed with the support of the USAID Pro-Bosques Activity, [...]

Sarawak, Malaysia Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) is a comprehensive set of planning, monitoring and control practices regulating timber harvesting operations. RIL was first developed for the Sarawak Department in 1998; since then, several versions of the guidelines have been developed across [...]

Sofala, Mozambique – March 2021 Mozambique is one of Africa’s most significant timber exporters; however, concerns over the legality and sustainability of the timber traded threatens the expansion of this market and led to calls for collaborative action to promote good [...]

The Timber Trade Federation (TTF) has presented the winners of its design competition, Conversations about Climate Change, in a virtual exhibition. Created using tropical hardwoods from countries involved in the European Union’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action [...]