On December 28, 2019, the 15th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress deliberated and passed the new Forest Law, which will be formally implemented on July 1, 2020. The newly revised Forest Law has made great adjustments in structure, with th...

From November 17 to 30, 2019, the Training Workshop on Tropical Timber Investment and Trade between China and Portuguese Speaking Countries and Cooperation on the Global Green Supply Chain for Forest Products was successfully held in Macau. This workshop washosted by the China an...

Zhu GuangqianIn the first half of 2020, the total value of timber and wood products imports and exports in China reached US$23.025 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 18%. The imports amounted at US$9.828 billion, dropped by 17.9%, and exports valued at US$13.197 billion, decreas...

Smallholder teak plantations have the potential to be a driver of sustainable development in the lowerMekong by improving the livelihoods and landscapes of rural communities. Knowhow, high-qualityplanting material and a little financial support are keys for realizing such potenti...

·Gabon, Cameroon and Republic of Congo together have about 33 M ha of forest concessions, about one quarter of these concessions have third party legality verification or forest certification. It is not known what percentage of the harvested timber qualifies for export under EUTR...

Author:G. DIETERLEaand A. KARSENTYba:Executive Director, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Yokohama, Japanb:Senior Researcher, at the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, FranceSUMMARYTropical forest degradation ...

At more than 1.2 million km2, Indonesia hosts the third largest area of rainforest in the world, while also facing one of the highest deforestation rates globally in the past few decades. Substantial effort has been made by government, businesses and civil society groups to promo...

If a smallholder has capital for a modest investment and technical support, tree plantations and woodlots can work as a “tree bank” offering secured interest and acting as a personalized “pension fund”.This was one of the themes to emerge at the Regional Workshop on Promotion of ...

Paraguay, a landlocked country of 7 million people, is home to much of the Gran Chaco forest, which is considered the second largest forested landscape in South America — second only to the Amazon rainforest. And like other countries which are home to the great forests of South A...

In 2010, the Gabonese government issued a ban on logs exports. Ten years later, Gabon becomes a demonstration model for the subregion in terms of its industrialization of timber sector.From January 1, 2022, all member states of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community ...