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04 September 2018 Viet Nam
Viet Nam’s forest cover was being lost quickly in the mid 20th century. Today, however, thanks to forest sector reforms that started in the mid-1990s, natural forests cover 40% of the country’s territory. In spite of this achievement, forest encroachment is once again on the rise. Large tracts of forestland are converted to monoculture plantations or destroyed to make way for infrastructure development. Communities that depend on forest resources find it more and more difficult to make ends meet.
30 August 2018
Showcasing the success of large-scale restoration of landscapes burdened by natural or man-made disasters, the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR),= of which TBI is partner and collaborator, launched this week the report: Restoring forests and landscapes, the key to sustainable future.
18 July 2018 Ghana
While in the past, traditional customary laws were enough to keep people from trespassing on certain parts of forested landscapes such as sacred groves, which often served as a repository of the original fauna and flora of a forest, and from hunting, farming and fishing on specified days and periods which also sought to arrest the overexploitation of forest and water resources, the advent of Western Civilisation saw the demise of these laws.
18 July 2018 Ghana
Ghana, Ivory Coast and Colombia together account for two-thirds of global cocoa production, with Ghana and Ivory Coast accounting for 70 percent while Colombia accounts for 1 percent. However, this feat is achieved at the expense of the tropical forests of these three countries since deforestation is relatively high in all three countries due to the fact that primary forests are continually being cleared for the cultivation of this important cash crop and other food crops.
16 July 2018 Ghana
It is not an uncommon sight for Ghanaians to see tipper trucks carrying lumber from the forested parts of Ghana along the Kumasi-Tamale-Bolgatanga road en route to Burkina Faso and other Sahelian countries since this kind of trade between Ghana and her Sahelian neighbours has been ongoing for decades.
16 July 2018 Ghana
While Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana have been given the mandate to oversee the governance of their natural resources under the country’s decentralization policy, not much progress has been made in the promotion of the sustainable management of these resources. This is due in part to the lack of a medium and long term natural resource governance agenda that has been developed and made an integral part of the overall administration of the assemblies.