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11 June, 2013

Balancing concerns on timber legality and improving forest-based livelihoods

Concerns about deforestation and degradation and about prevailing poverty in tropical forest regions have resulted in a series of global policy initiatives. These range from policies to stimulate poverty alleviation in forest regions to programmes to prevent illegal timber logging. Such policies have often been developed independently; recent research assesses how these different policies relate to each other and how they interact.

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06 June, 2013

Call for papers ETFRN News 55: Linkages between FLEGT, REDD+ and beyond: Challenges and opportunities for improved forest management

In order to contribute to a better understanding of the linkages and potential interactions between forest-related initiatives, in particular REDD+ and FLEGT and other supply and demand side approaches at country level, the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN), together with Tropenbos International, the German International Cooperation, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the European Union and the European Forest Institute, will publish a special issue of ETFRN News.

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01 June, 2013

A boost for sustainable charcoal production

Illegal chainsaw operators in forest communities could soon depend on improved charcoal production as a viable alternative livelihood. This is because Tropenbos International Ghana has concluded arrangements with the Forestry Commission (FC) and the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) to work together to enhance the contribution of charcoal production to local livelihoods and poverty alleviation while preserving environmental quality.

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23 April, 2013

Frontrunners show the way how to make sustainable forestry business work

Sustainable forestry business is possible and examples of this abound, but to achieve sufficient credibility these business cases need to be scaled up . This was a major message emanating from the side event Good Business: Making Private Investment Work for Forests at the UNFF-10 on April 15 in Istanbul. The side event was jointly organized by World Bank/PROFOR, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für international Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Tropenbos International.

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