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10 April 2012 Viet Nam
On April 10th, 2012, TBI Viet Nam will cooperate with the Department of Science, Technology and Environment (belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), the Institute of Forest Inventory and Planning, and the Department of Forest Protection to organize the “National Workshop on Forest Land Allocation: Policy and Practice”.
10 April 2012 Viet Nam
The Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLF) held their 8th international learning event on March 26th-30th in Huế, Viet Nam. The FGLG is an informal partnership of in-country groups and international associations that is currently involved in eight African and three Asian countries.
16 March 2012 Ghana
Forest communities in Ghana will soon be producing lumber to shore up the volume of legal lumber supply for the domestic market. This is to be made possible as Tropenbos International Ghana implements a project that seeks to link local communities to forest concession holders to produce legal lumber under the FAO/ACP/EU-FLEGT Support Programme.
09 February 2012 the Netherlands
The domestic timber market in Ghana is large (2.5 million m3) and will expand significantly as Ghana’s population is predicted to double by 2030 to almost 50 million. More than 700,000 livelihoods depend on this trade. Non-regulation of the domestic timber market will lead to forest degradation, loss of environmental services and rural and urban poverty, as well as jeopardizing the legal international timber trade.
20 January 2012 Suriname
The CELOS Management System (CMS) is a system for harvesting tropical rainforests which aims to cause minimal disturbance to the ecosystem while also providing economic return. CMS was developed by the Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS) and the Agricultural University of Wageningen (The Netherlands; nowadays WUR). Starting in the 1960/70s, it was originally developed for Suriname, but has gained international recognition.
18 January 2012 Viet Nam
The economic structure of Vietnam has drastically shifted since the mid 1980's from an agriculture based system to one that is multi-based.