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Procuring Favourably

Timber procurement policies have evolved rapidly in recent years. Spurred by concerns over illegal logging and unsustainable forestry (often in the tropics), policies restricting purchases to legal and/or sustainable timber have proliferated. Such policies were initially adopted by developed country 

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  • Buying time?

    Photo: CIFOR

    Timber-procurement policies have a role to play in promoting the sustainable management of tropical forests.

    By Markku Simula

  • The costs in Cameroon

    Photo: N. Jervais

    VPA and other TPP impacts will be particularly large for informal operators.

    By Richard Eba’a Atyi

  • Malaysia and the VPA

    Photo: B.H. Ghazali

    The EU takes its FLEGT action plan to the world’s biggest exporter of tropical logs

    By Dato’ Baharuddin Haji Ghazali


  • The cost of SFM in Peru

    Oscar Perez Contreras

    Photo: V. Espinoza

    Achieving TPP requirements in Peru will require improvements in all aspects of forest management.

    By Oscar Perez Contreras

  • Out on a limb

    Sofie Tind Nielsen, project manager for the UK’s Central Point of Expertise on Timber (CPET), provides the UK perspective on timber procurement

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