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Innovations to optimize Sustainable pathways of traded tropical timber and timber products

27 Aug 2024

▪ Technical reports conducted on: ▪ The impact of timber procurement policies ▪ Uses and impacts of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management ▪ Review of electronic and semi-electronic timber tracking technologies ▪ Assessment of major developments in technical and environmental standards in selected major international timber markets ▪ Analysis of global trends impacting on the re. [...] • Capacities of legal and sustainable supply chain enhanced, business collaboration and networking facilitated: • Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services • Forest Landscape Restoration and Resilient Livelihoods • Emerging Issues and Innovation ITTO’s Legal Sustainable Supply Chains Programme ▪ Enhance tropical timber supply and value chains, from the forests to the market, to achieve l. [...] • An ITTO project developed software that speeds up and improves the forest planning process by aiding the selection of harvest trees based on clear criteria, providing better control over timber production, and enabling sustainable forest management: BoManejo: ✓ meets the data requirements of the forestry legislation, ✓ enables forest managers to refine and adjust the criteria for selecting trees. [...] • In Guatemala, an ITTO project developed in 2023 a smartphone app to calculate log volumes: CUBIFOR: ✓ it requires only a photograph of the stack of logs (or other wood product) and the average width and length of the stack to estimate volume, ✓ It has strengthened the capacity of forest companies to control their inventories, improved the, and generally advanced sustainable forest management in. [...] Strengthening forest governance in Panama • Project output was the establishment of a forest monitoring and verification system (Sistema de Trazabilidad y Control Forestal/STCF) for preventing illegal logging • STCF enabled the monitoring of flows of illegal timber from both natural and planted forests through storage yards and processing facilities to wholesalers • Streamlined the issuing of perm.

Authors

Tetra YANUARIADI

Pages
29
Published in
Japan

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