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Between 2016-2021, the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme funded 96 MSME support projects in 20 countries globally. These projects reached 3,300 MSMEs in total, but the 41 projects with a specific capacity building focus were able to train an average of 71 [...]

Growing international and domestic demand for tropical timber has resulted in critical wood supply gaps for many tropical timber-producing countries, in some instances linked to a surge in illegal logging. Growing shortages of legal timber supply have necessitated the exploration [...]

Informal forest sector micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are often equated with being “illegal” when their mode of production, source of raw materials, or even their legal existence does not conform with their country’s regulatory requirements. This characterization fails [...]

This list is a compilation of selected materials produced by the Programme’s Service Providers throughout Phase III, grouped by the main thematic areas of Programme support

Publications are fruit of the collaboration between CATIE and the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme and cover a range of topics - from the negotiation of voluntary partnership agreements to the development of national forest policies in Latin America

The FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme works in partnership with the European Union its Member States to implement the EU’s FLEGT Action Plan to combat illegal logging and associated trade. Since 2016, the Programme has supported over [...]

The economic and social importance of domestic wood consumption is recognized in West Africa, but the domestic markets remain largely fueled by illegal timber. This report aims to inform policy makers on the trends in public sawnwood demand and volumes [...]

Le Viet Nam, l'un des principaux pays importateurs et transformateurs de bois, a connu une croissance exponentielle de ses industries forestières au cours de la dernière décennie. En plus d'importer du bois en provenance de quelque 80 pays d'Asie, d'Afrique et d'Amérique [...]

Market study of forest products in Honduras: supply, demand, barriers and plan to increase the use of legal timber contains the methodology and an analysis of the results found regarding wood flows, commercial values, including imports, employment generation, the study [...]

Identifying barriers and opportunities for internal trade in responsible wood products, from legal and sustainable sources, in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of Peru.