From 14-15 May 2019, FAO convened a technical working group meeting of experts from international organizations, research institutions, academia, civil society and private sector who met to exchange and provide feedback on an intial set on guiding legal elements. “The primary [...]

As countries step up their efforts to fulfill commitments made under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Agenda 2030, the cross-cutting theme of improved forest governance is at the centre of efforts to halt deforestation and forest degradation as well [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has resumed its longstanding cooperation with the Forest Department of Sarawak (FDS), Malaysia, through a project supported by the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme. The project, [...]

El gran pulmón de Panamá. Así es como definen a la selva del Darién, un tupido bosque tropical de 20.000 kilómetros cuadrados y una de las mayores reservas de la biodiversidad de toda Centroamérica.

A partir de 2018, el Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá inició la implementación de un sistema de trazabilidad en la provincia del Darién, para verificar la legalidad de la madera que se extrae de sus bosques para comercializar. El proceso [...]

Côte d’Ivoire. Projet Flegt: AVSI, FAO, UE

Experts working to eliminate illegal logging in the Republic of the Congo and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic gathered in Ghana to learn from that country’s own experiences in promoting trade of legally-produced timber to the European Union. The Ghana Forestry [...]

 Guyana and the European Union (EU) today initialled a Voluntary Partnership Agreement, a binding trade pact that commits both sides to deal in legal timber products while strengthening forest governance and sustainable forest management. The initialisation sets the stage for the [...]

The EU and Vietnam signed today a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). The agreement will help improve forest governance, address illegal logging and promote trade in verified legal timber products from Vietnam to [...]

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