Deforestation surge ends a decade of progress for Indonesia’s pulp sector
Deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions rise as Indonesian pulp producers expand operations to meet growing demand from China. Read more here.
Deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions rise as Indonesian pulp producers expand operations to meet growing demand from China. Read more here.
Within the project “ Social Media 4 Peace" funded by the European Union, UNESCO has taken steps to contribute to the curbing of online disinformation and hate speech and is launching a comprehensive report examining legal...
RECOFTC releases a new report on how five Mekong countries are opening up decision-making processes to civil society as they reform policies and laws governing forests. Their participation is essential because policies and laws...
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are a vehicle for development and generate almost half of jobs in the formal forest sector globally. They are key to local economies, generating significant livelihood and employment...
This synthesis paper, published in May 2020 by the Dutch Food and Business Knowledge Platform and the Dutch research council NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, considers the ways in which smallholder agriculture contributes...
7 April 2020. The rapid spread of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it are generating growing concerns that food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty may escalate, particularly among marginalized people in the developing world. To...
The EU FLEGT Facility has issued a briefing note that draws lessons from three years of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licensing in Indonesia. Indonesia was the first country in the world to start issuing...
Women in five tropical forest countries share their views on how timber trade deals between their countries and the EU could boost gender equity. Norma Rodríguez. The first female President of the Honduran Federation of Agro...
Maria Murliantini is a trailblazer. The factory she owns in Indonesia’s furniture-making capital Jepara was one of the first to export only products made from verified legal teak to buyers in the EU. Maria Murliantini, Owner of...
Indonesia and the EU have released a joint report on progress in implementing the Voluntary Partnership Agreement from May 2015 to December 2016. The report describes progress made with the timber legality assurance system...