At more than 1.2 million km2, Indonesia hosts the third largest area of rainforest in the world, while also facing one of the highest deforestation rates globally in the past few decades. Substantial effort has been made by government, businesses and civil society groups to promo...

If a smallholder has capital for a modest investment and technical support, tree plantations and woodlots can work as a “tree bank” offering secured interest and acting as a personalized “pension fund”.This was one of the themes to emerge at the Regional Workshop on Promotion of ...

In 2019, the total value of tropical timber products (including direct imports and imports through third countries such as China) imported by EU increased by 7%, about 4.16 billion euros. This is another increase after the increase of 2% in 2018.The proportion of tropical timber ...

Recently, the famous American hardwood magazine Global Hardwood Review summarized the performance of the American hardwood industry in 2019. 2019 is a difficult year for the industry. Affected by the US-China trade war and the global economic downturn, the global sales of America...