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17 June 2020

Wood product exporters set to benefit from Vietnam/EU trade deal. For this and other timber market news, read the 1-15 June 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

5 June 2020

ITTO Fellow and “solutions” journalist Talia Lostaunau-Garcia has published an article on Mongabay Latam, “Peru: the battle to save vicunas from poaching in the midst of the pandemic”. Read Talia’s article (in Spanish)

3 June 2020

The latest Independent Market Monitor (IMM) newsletter is now available.

1 June 2020

No pandemic impact in March EU trade data. For this and other timber market news, read the 16-31 May 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

18 May 2020

Indonesia’s timber legality system remains in force but subject to revision. For this and other timber market news, read the 1-15 May 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

8 May 2020 Yokohama, Japan

Survey shines light on COVID-19 impacts on tropical timber sector

COVID-19 ITTO–MIS survey

7 May 2020

Recounting an ITTO Fellow’s journey—via “solutions journalism”

1 May 2020

Impact of pandemic on employment and incomes in Malaysia. For this and other timber market news, read the 16-30 April 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

18 April 2020 Yokohama, Japan

Pandemic pandemonium in the tropical timber sector

ITTO MIS Tropical Timber Market Report 24(7)

16 April 2020

Survey - impact of pandemic. For this and other timber market news, read the 1-15 April 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

8 April 2020 Yokohama, Japan

New joint publication on forest product conversion factors

1 April 2020

Game changing policies in response to corona virus impact. For this and other timber market news, read the 16-31 March 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

21 March 2020 Yokohama, Japan

Tropical forests—the rich home of biodiversity. Celebrating the International Day of Forests

16 March 2020

New record for US hardwood exports to India. For this and other timber market news, read the 1-15 March 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

3 March 2020

Smallholder teak plantations could be a driver of sustainable development in the lower Mekong

3 March 2020

EU imports of tropical wood products up 7% in 2019. For this and other timber market news, read the 16-29 February 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

17 February 2020

Peru plans to allocate 8 million hectares of natural forest for investors. For this and other timber market news, read the 1-15 February 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

14 February 2020

African mahogany species don't hybridize, says new study

7 February 2020

Seeding equality in the Chimbo River basin

3 February 2020

Housing sales in India fall 30%. For this and other timber market news, read the 16-31 January 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

16 January 2020

Vietnam bans imports of Chinese plywood. For more timber market news, read the 1-15 January 2020 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

19 December 2019 Yokohama, Japan

Side-event explores tropical forest-based solutions to climate change

2 December 2019

Ghana workshop on depots for domestic verified legal timber sales. For more timber market news, read the 16-30 November 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

27 November 2019 Lomé, Togo

Workshop discusses smallholder forest landscape restoration and local development in West Africa

19 November 2019

Transforming Rio Grande do Sul furniture sector. For more timber market news, read the 1-15 November 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

13 November 2019

ITTO and CITES continue their collaborative work

1 November 2019

Addressing declining competitiveness in international markets. For more timber market news, read the 16-31 October 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

29 October 2019 Yokohama, Japan

International forum creates network to encourage global green timber supply chains

News Release International Forum Together Towards Global Green Supply Chains

Key Outcomes, International Forum Together Towards Global Green Supply Chains

Agenda International Forum, Together Towards Green Supply Chains

Session I (22 Oct 2019), Harnessing the role of wood industry for climate change

Session II (22 Oct 2019), Global wood demand and supply

Session III (22 Oct 2019), Legality + sustainability in Global Wood Supply Chains

Session III (23 Oct 2019), The state and future of the Congo Basin

Session IV (23 Oct 2019), Economic sustainability wood industry in the Congo Basin

Forum report - Together Towards Global Green Supply Chains

18 October 2019 Yokohama, Japan

The International Forum “Together Towards Global Green Supply Chains –A Forest Products Industry Initiative” is approaching! For more timber market news, read the 1-15th October 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

9 October 2019 Yokohama, Japan

Legal, sustainable value chains important for SDGs, say experts at IUFRO World Congress

1. Green tropical timber supply chains—legality, sustainability, profitability (G. Dieterle)

2. Making sustainable wood value chains work for sustainable development (T. Linhares-Juvenal)

3. BOManejo Software - planning and control of forest production (F. Pereira)

4. Rapid ccreening by fluorescence of finished wood products (C. Lancaster)

5. Traceability system improves forest governance in Panama (V. Cadavid)

6. Technologies to verify the origin and species or genus of wood and wood products (A. Olbrich)

2 October 2019 Yangon, Myanmar

Workshop explores contributions of Mekong teak forests to SDGs

2 October 2019

First timber legality certificate issued in Myanmar. For more timber market news, read the 16-31 September 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

1 October 2019

Sustainable forest management means music to the ear

Sustainable procurement of African blackwood in Tanzania_Nakai Kazhusi

24 September 2019 Yokohama, Japan

More forestry professionals needed in Congo Basin

Challenges of training on SFM practices in Congo Basin (Claude Kachaka Sudi)

19 September 2019 Yokohama, Japan

Women fight rural poverty in Africa

Combating rural community poverty in West and Central Africa (Cecile Ndjebet)

17 September 2019 Yokohama, Japan

California forest-risk procurement bill fails. For more timber market news, read the 1-15 September 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

11 September 2019 Yokohama, Japan

Diverse approaches to forest management needed in Africa

SFM in diverse Africa _HNakata_TICAD7_AUG2019

28 August 2019 Yokohama, Japan

More collaboration, participation, needed in Congo Basin to achieve SFM, says Minister Matondo

Allocution de Mme R. Matondo au manifestation de l'OIBT en TICAD7

Opening address Mme R. Matondo at ITTO side-event TICAD7

2 September 2019 Yokohama, Japan

Legal, sustainable tropical forest supply chains and landscape restoration can help achieve SDGs in Africa, says panel

Combating rural community poverty in West and Central Africa (Cecile Ndjebet)

Challenges of training on SFM practices in Congo Basin (Claude Kachaka Sudi)

SFM in diverse Africa (Nakata Hiroshi)

Sustainable procurement of African blackwood in Tanzania (Nakai Kazhusi)

EU plywood market faces a ‘perfect storm’. For more timber market news, read the 16-31 August 2019 edition of the ITTO MIS timber market report.

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