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 […]
The design contest “Using legal timber in construction, architecture and interior” was organized to aim at promoting and honoring students’ innovations in the use of legal timber, as well as encouraging the use of plantation wood, particularly domestic plantations, or recycled wood in their designs, works, also products. The contest rolled out in Hanoi Architectural […]
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 […]
Consumer demand for high-value tropical hardwood products in Viet Nam has driven the illegal harvesting and import of endangered timber species from high-risk sources, presenting a challenge for Viet Nam’s national agenda on legal and sustainable timber trade. To address this, the Centre for Education and Development (CED), supported by the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, […]
On October 2nd, 2020, Center for Education and Development organized project planning and launching Workshop “Ensuring timber legality and promoting the use of legal and sustainable timber in Viet Nam” funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The objectives of the workshop included inviting comments and contributing ideas for the […]
Background information The EU FAO FLEGT Programme promotes the implementation of the FLEGT Action Plan by improving forest governance, providing technical assistance, and building capacity through funding projects in eligible countries. In pursuit of these objectives, the EU FAO FLEGT Programme has provided support for the project entitled “Ensuring timber legality in the […]