Jade Saunders, a Senior Policy Analyst at Forest Trends and an Associate Fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House, explains how timber import regulations in Europe, the United States and Australia benefit people and communities in [...]

The FAO FLEGT Programme has supported over 200 projects in 40 tropical timber-producing countries to improve forest governance and support legal timber trade. FAO works with the European Union (EU), member states, partner organizations and local stakeholders to help prepare timber-producing [...]

llegal logging has a devastating effect on forests and the people who depend on them, and is estimated to be worth 30-100 billion USD annually, or 10-30 percent of the total global timber trade. The European Union’s Forest Law Enforcement, [...]

The world’s first Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licence certifies that timber entering the European Union has been harvested, transported, processed and traded according to Indonesian law. As Robert Simpson, FAO FLEGT Programme Manager explains, in addition to [...]

Rachel Butler, Executive Director of the Global Timber Forum, describes the priorities of the new international timber sector networking and communications platform, whose main function is to bring the voices of the small and medium enterprises into the international arena.Read [...]

Cindy Squires, Executive Director of the International Wood Products Association, asserts that the private sector, or “people on the ground”, need to be informed and included in discussions on timber legality and sustainability. They also need to be aware of [...]

Alexander Adu of the Kumasi Wood Cluster Association recommends some ways that small and medium enterprises can improve legal compliance. The association he works for in Ghana supports small businesses to use wood harvested in ways that maintain or restore [...]

Françoise Van de Ven recense les principales difficultés auxquelles les entreprises forestières Gabonaises font face lorsqu’il s’agit de se conformer aux réglementations juridiques. Elle fournit également des suggestions pour mieux se conformer à la législation.En savoir plus: http://net2do.jimdo.com/flegt/l-action

This video is about the development of mechanisms for Veeduria Forestal or Indigenous Forest Monitoring (IFM) by indigenous people in San Martin, Peru, supported by the FAO FLEGT Programme.  Forest monitoring is a very significant process among indigenous people, not only [...]

The European Union, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the Government of Sweden and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) formalized an agreement to support tropical timber-producing countries to curb illegal logging, promote the trade of legally sourced timber [...]