Africa: Increasing Legality and Transparency in the Timber Trade

press release

Rome — FAO's new online portal contributes to sustainable forest-management

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched a new online portal providing information on forest-related laws around the world in order to help promote legal forest management, timber production and trade, and contribute to efforts to make forest resource use sustainable.

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