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07 August 2015 Ghana
To support the continuous training and operations of artisanal millers to curb illegalities and conflicts associated with chainsaw milling, whilst addressing livelihood and VPA issues, the EU Chainsaw milling project supported the Forestry Commission to purchase a modern wood processing equipment, an LT 40 WoodMizer. The equipment has been installed at FCTC which will now become the national training center for artisanal millers. The equipment was out-doored at the 13th Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue meeting of the project at FCTC in Kumasi.
03 August 2015 Colombia
Using the radio as a means to communicate ideas about the paramo, a group of young people from the rural school of Ferralarada (IED Ferralarada) and the local knowledge holders from the National Natural Park Chingaza (PNN Chingaza) created a series of programmes called Somos Monteluna: these are the voices and stories of the Chingaza páramo. The series of programmes have interviews, reports, stories, and songs which include local testimonies and voices.
31 July 2015 Indonesia
To deal with rampant land disputes involving indigenous communities, the Environment and Forestry Ministry of Indonesia has set a target of redistributing 12.7 million hectares of social forests (2015-2019). The majority, 6.8 million ha, would be taken from concession forests — totaling 30 million ha, from which around 10 million ha are under industrial forest permits (HTI) and around 12 million ha are natural production forest concessions (HPH) — in the form of partnership forests, Hutan Kemitraan (HK).
30 July 2015 Ghana
Aside Ghana increasing its efforts to address illegal logging and milling to secure the supply of legal timber to the domestic market, the country has to pay special attention to the overland export of timber. Ghana has a long history as a major supplier of high-value hardwood timber and wood products to European, Asian and African markets. As a signer of the Voluntary Partnership agreement with the EU, Ghana has a commitment not only to export legal wood but also source and trade in legal timber on the domestic market. A study conducted by the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana has brought to the limelight the overland trade in wood and wood products as a vibrant one but largely illegal.
30 July 2015 Ghana
A culture of stakeholder consultation in decision making in the forestry sector is gaining space through the institutionalization of the multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD). During the 13th MSD meeting of the EU Chainsaw Milling project which took place at the Forestry Commission Training Center in Kumasi on 16th July, 2015 the National Forest Forum- Ghana (NFF-G) accepted to merge with the MSD platform established by the EU Chainsaw milling project.
17 July 2015 Viet Nam
In May 2015, Ha Van Tiep, a PhD researcher from TBI Viet Nam successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Forest fragmentation in Viet Nam: Effects on tree diversity, populations and genetics” at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The following is his reflection on the past 4 years.