New report on Latin American timber traceability systems released by FAO and WRI

Governments seeking to develop national timber traceability systems to comply with tightening international standards can look for inspiration to Latin America, a joint report by the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme and the World Resources Institute (WRI) has found.

The report, Timber traceability: A management tool for governments. Case studies from Latin America, draws from experiences in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru, and offers a range of best practices and recommendations for planning and implementing government-led timber traceability systems, which enable countries to track the flow of timber from a legal place of harvest through transformation along the value chain, to the point of sale.

Read the summary news story here: https://www.fao.org/forestry/news/100046/en/

Read the full report here: https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb8909en