Innovations to promote the use of wood-based products from sustainably managed forests

Innovations to promote the use of wood-based products from sustainably managed forests

Committee on Forestry, 22nd Session

Year of publication 2014

Pages 5p.

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Full item page

Statutory body / Meeting title FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO)

Meeting symbol COFO/2014/4.2

Meeting Session Number COFO/2014/4.2

Language English

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Forest products : World outlook projections - Projections of consumption and production of wood-based products to 2000 / Produts forestier : Perspectives mondiales projections - Projections de la consommation et de la production des produits dérivés du bois jusqu'à l'an 2000 / Productos forestales : Proyecciones de las perspectivas mundiales - Proyecciones del consumo y la producción de productos a base de madera hasta el año 2000 1988

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Where does the wood come from? A matrix model for tracing the origin of wood-based products
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022

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Globally, timber trade flows have increased in recent years. While value is generally added along the entire value chain, certain environmental impacts, such as deforestation and forest degradation, are intrinsically linked to the origin of the roundwood. Bilateral trade statistics are of limited help in providing insights about the location of impacts caused by consumption of wood-based products elsewhere. This is mainly because wood-based products are often imported from countries other than the one from which the roundwood originated. We present a novel method that makes it possible to relate the consumption of wood-based products to the origin of roundwood. Thus, the method helps to provide information on distant environmental impacts of wood consumption. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, Value chain, Deforestation and forest degradation, Research ID: 3623115
Policy brief

Women’s participation in wood-based value chains in VPA-implementing countries. MALEBI: Women at the forefront of sustainable charcoal production in Côte d'Ivoire
The experience of the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme
2021

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This brief describes the constraints as well as opportunities of women in the wood-based supply chain, from a case study that focuses on The Association of Women Producers and Traders of Secondary Forest Products (MALEBI) in Côte d’Ivoire. Within the framework of an agreement with the Ivorian government, MALEBI produces and sells charcoal from wood harvested in the Ahua gazetted forest and, in return, is committed to reforesting 5 hectares per year in the same forest area. The members of female producer organizations from seven communities around the Ahua forest participate in the reforestation activity.