As part of our campaign "Legal timber is great" (Le bois légal, c’est génial) in Cameroon, we invite you to buy products made of timber of legal origin and to preserve the forests of the Congo Basin.

Grants up to USD 110 000 are channeled through the Programme to support ongoing VPA processes in targeted countries. The selection of proposals will be done through two phases. In the first phase, all eligible applicants are invited to submit [...]

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 [...]

‘The Timber Industry in Peru: Identifying barriers and opportunities for internal trade in responsible wood products,’ published in Spanish by FAO-EU FLEGT and the Centre for Technological Wood Innovation (CITEmadera), reported low levels of awareness of whether wood or wood [...]

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 [...]

The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme provides technical support and resources to promote the legal production and consumption of timber through projects in more than 20 countries.