Women in Africa continue to face huge challenges but can play powerful roles in restoring landscapes, alleviating poverty and mitigating climate change, according to Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet, Founder and President of the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF). Ms Ndjebet was speaking at an ITTO side-event at TICAD 7 in Yokohama, Japan, last month.
 

Sustainable forest management (SFM) must be tailored to suit Africa’s extraordinary diversity of landscapes, people and market demands, and landscape restoration and sustainable and legal supply chains will be crucial in efforts to bring about SFM, according to Hiroshi Nakata, Senior Advisor at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
 

ITTO will co-convene the international forum “Together towards Global Green Supply Chains”, in China, on 22–25 October 2019. The forum will highlight the importance of legal and sustainable wood product supply chains and promote a platform to facilitate business exchanges and collaboration worldwide. Confirm now your registration to this exciting event!

Increased collaboration between international partners and governments, and the close involvement of local people, are needed to achieve sustainable forest management in the Congo Basin, stated H.E. Mme Rosalie Matondo, Minister of Forest Economy in the Government of the Congo, speaking at an ITTO side-event at TICAD 7, held in Yokohama, Japan, last month.

Linking tropical forests to legal and sustainable supply chains and restoring degraded landscapes can increase the contributions of wise forest use to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa and elsewhere, according to speakers at an ITTO side-event held during the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama in August.

China’s imports of tropical sawnwood slowed in 2018 after rapid growth between 2014 and 2017, according to the Biennial Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 2017–2018, published recently by ITTO. The ITTO flagship publication provides insights into trends in the global timber sector and markets, including the production and trade of primary and secondary processed wood products.