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22 October 2015 Ghana
More than half of Ghanaian farmers involved in tree plantation development still find inadequate knowledge of silvicultural practices a major hindrance to their businesses in spite of the fact that 84 percent of them have already benefited from extension services being offered by several organisations including the Forestry Commission (FC) of Ghana.
22 October 2015 Ghana
More than a decade after the Forest Plantations Development Fund (FPDF) was set up to provide various forms of assistance to plantation developers, including cash to finance their projects, a research conducted by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana under its Landscape Restoration Project (LRP) indicates that 68 percent of farmers are not aware of the Fund.
22 October 2015 DR Congo
Artisanal logger demonstrates to students of the University of Kisangani that sustainable forest management is possible when the right logging techniques are adopted.
21 October 2015 DR Congo
In DR Congo, artisanal loggers complain of the multiple charges and taxes they pay. It seems that the origin and nature of certain taxes and fees are not clear. In 2015, TBI DR Congo conducted a study to list the fees collected from the artisanal loggers. It has been found that a total of 27 fees are collected from which 21 are legal and 6 are illegal.
21 October 2015 DR Congo
Artisanal loggers from the Province Orientale in DR Congo were sensitized on the regulation of artisanal logging sector, legal taxes and legal associations of artisanal loggers as part of an awareness campaign organized from September 24 to October 8, 2015 by Tropenbos International DR Congo.
19 October 2015 Colombia
Carlos Rodriguez, TBI Colombia’s program director, received a tribute during the IV Latin American Ethnobiology Congress “Weaving the Memory and the Biocultural Future of Latin America and the Caribbean”, and the V Colombian Ethnobiology Congress “Singing, Narrating, and Healing: the Biocultural Memory of Colombia”, which took place in Popayán, Colombia from 28 September to 2 October, 2015.