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  • Gateway to International Timber Trade

    According to the FAO (2015) Myanmar has around 29.0 million hectares of forested land, which constitutes to 44.2% of the total land area. Around 28.1 million hectares are primar...

  • Thailand Country Commercial Guide – Labour Policies and Practices

    In 2016, Thailand’s formal labor force was 38.3 million, or more than 56 percent of the population. Reported unemployment rates are well below full employment, at 1.0 percent ov...

  • Forest governance in Vietnam: A literature review

    This report provides a literature review of forest governance in Vietnam to determine strengths and weaknesses of the sector, namely: the process of decision-making in forest go...

  • The EU Timber Regulation and VPAs

    This website describes the EU Timber Regulation and VPAs.

  • Conflicts in Vietnam’s forest areas: Implications for FLEGT and REDD+

    Conflicts over land are rampant in Vietnam. Some erupt into physical violence and catch the attention of the media, while others linger without attracting wider attention. Land ...

  • The Role of Social Safeguards in Addressing Forest Governance in FLEGT and REDD+

    This presentation seeks to demonstrate how social safeguards can provide opportunities to address the forest governance challenges faced by FLEGT and REDD+. It discusses the imp...

  • Forest Watch Special: FLEGT VPA Update June 2018

    This update discusses the importance of protecting forest resources through robust efforts rooted in broader strategies linked to the European Union's development and climate po...

  • CSO's View on FLEGT VPA Process in Myanmar: Challenges and Opportunities

    This presentation provides forestry sector updates and an overview of forestry issues and forest governance issues in Myanmar, such as land tenure and transparency. The presenta...

  • Commercial agriculture expansion in Myanmar: Links to deforestation, conversion timber, and land conflicts

    This report collates quantitative and qualitative data on the expansion of agribusiness in Myanmar’s forests and analyzes the role that laws and policies, and revenues generated...

  • Stronger forest and farm producers’ groups can help deepen Myanmar democracy

    The briefing is about the role of stronger forest and farm producers’ groups in promoting the democratization in Myanmar. This could be successfully implemented through two stag...

  • Forest policies in Asia – a regional synthesis

    Historically, the main objective of forest management was timber production. Although forest policies and forest management objectives diversified and expanded long before the U...

  • National Forest Policy Review: Thailand

    Forestry policies do not last long and lack continuity. Some problems are solved temporarily but emerge again in the future. If policies are not incorporated into the national s...

  • Informational Basis of Policy Judgments: The Case of the Royal Forest Department of Thailand

    This report presents a preliminary analysis of policy formation in the area of forest management in Thailand. Despite its remarkable record of industrialization and economic gro...

  • The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Thailand Readiness Plan Idea Note (R-PIN) Template

    The purpose of this document is to: a) request an overview of your country’s interest in the FCPF program, and b) provide an overview of land use patterns, causes of deforestati...

  • Recommendations from Thailand’s Civil Society Organizations for the Revision of the REDD+ Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) for Thailand

    The recommendations given in this document were developed during the consultation workshop entitled. “Promotion of Equity in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Deg...

  • Comments on Draft report on Myanmars National REDD+ Strategy

    In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...

  • Forest degradation in Cambodia: An assessment of monitoring options in the central cardamom protected forest

    To assess monitoring options in the CCPF, a conceptual framework was developed, which includes three steps: 1) define biomass reference for monitoring in each forest strata of i...

  • Cambodia's National Forest Programme: Framework document

    Cambodia's National Forest Programme is developed under observation of the principles for national forest programmes asset out by the UN Forum on Forests, as well as by national...

  • Forest resources and forestry in Vietnam

    Forest and forestland are important sources of livelihood for the population living in or near forests and in mountainous areas of Vietnam. The objective of this paper is to ana...

  • Re-inventing forestry agencies: institutional restructuring of forestry agencies in Vietnam since 1994, Excerpt from "Re-inventing forestry agencies - Experiences of institutional restructuring in Asia and the Pacific"

    This study aims to provide an understanding of the changing roles of the state forestry agencies in Viet Nam since 1994 and the process of re-aligning their organizational struc...

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