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MeetingThe Current Status of Consumer pariticipation in Food Safety Risk Analysis, and Opportunities for Improvements 2001
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No results found.Consumers International has participated in Codex work as an observer for three decades, and notes the importance of ongoing efforts by the Codex Commission to improve the participation of consumers in its activities. Sound goals have been established, but the details of implementation have yet to be worked out. Data need to be collected at regular intervals on objective measures to track progress in consumer participation at the national and international level. Some governments are more advanc ed than others in terms of the extent and mechanisms through which they facilitate consumer participation in their food safety risk analysis. Through forums such as this one and Codex Regional Coordinating Committees, successful experiences can be shared and perhaps, more widely adopted. In order to improve the quality of consumer participation, consumer NGOs should be given opportunities to take part in risk analysis training and similar workshops carried out by international agencies and natio nal governments. The risk assessment process, which has traditionally been closed to observers, should also be more open and transparent; bringing invited consumer participants into that process could both improve the results and add to the credibility of risk assessments. -
DocumentA social and gender analysis of FLEGT: Analyzing opportunities and risks for wood processing and furniture small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Lao PDR
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Illegal logging and deforestation has become a pervasive issue globally contributing to environmental degradation and climate change in recent decades. Various policy measures have been enacted to mitigate unethical and extractive practices that have jeopardized forest ecosystems and the communities dependent on them, such as the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) program. Increasingly, there has been a growing body of research on the implications of FLEGT-related policies on the timber supply chain in VPA negotiating countries. While FLEGT is touted to improve forest governance and provide economic benefits, the commercialization and market formalization of FLEGT processes render dangerous possibilities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). While recent efforts have assessed how FLEGT can ameliorate timber product output and reduce illegal forest activity, most of this analysis is disaggregated by the size and scale of timber producing operations, and has not considered the social and gendered implications of these policies on various actors along the timber production supply chain. Through a case study of Xayaboury, Lao PDR, our research examined how the VPA process will impact SMEs, and consequently the diverse demographic populations within them. Through focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with government officials, private sector, civil societies, and SME labourers and owners from the local to the national level, we examined how FLEGT policies has social and gender ramifications in Lao wood processing and furniture SMEs. This research found that small-scale sawmills, women labourers, and local-level women's groups and civil societies are particulalry met with vulnerability due to FLEGT, with few to none safeguarding policies protecting their rights. We argue that policy revisions within the FLEGT and Forestry policies should be amended to protect marginalized communities' rights amidst timber legality and policy changes. Keywords: Gender, Deforestation and forest degradation, Social protection, Sustainable forest management, Illegal trade ID: 3623113
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