Hanoi (VNA) – The Centre for Education and Development (CED) has organised an online workshop named “Sharing communication experience of promoting the use of legal timber in Vietnam”. The event is one of the final activities of the project “Ensuring timber legality in the domestic market and promoting the use of legal and sustainable timber […]
Introduction Timber is widely used in construction and interior decoration because of its special characteristics. Timber is a material which is aesthetic and suitable for both modern and traditional designs. Nowadays, with the development of modern timber technologies, timber material may have similar efficiency to concrete but it is a green, more sustainable and more […]
In June, 2021, The Center for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD) pubelished a policy brief on “Gaps and potential risks in the implementationof regulations on labour contracts, employee insurance, and occupational safety in micro and smallsized timber enterprises in the context of VPA/FLEGT implementation”, this brief is based on an overview of survey and […]
Women in five tropical forest countries share their views on how timber trade deals between their countries and the EU could boost gender equity. Norma Rodríguez, the first female President of the Honduran Federation of Agro-forestry Cooperatives, hopes a timber trade deal her country has recently agreed with the EU will create a brighter future […]