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Ghana's export of wood products for the first three months of 2015 totalled 81,518 cu.m, some 48% more than for same period in 2014 and resulted in earnings of euro 43 million, almost double that in the first quarter 2014.
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A workshop organised by the Working Group on Forest Certification, established to support the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process, has been held in Accra...
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On the 15th July the inaugural meeting of the five-nation ECOWAS Steering Committee on the upgrading of the 1,030 km Abidjan-Lagos corridor road project met to begin work on the legal and institutional framework, the terms of reference for various studies and on finance and resource mobilisation.
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According to available data from the Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission, wood product exports from Ghana in the first six months of 2013 was...
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Revenue from Ghana’s non-traditional exports (NTEs) which does not include timber, cocoa beans and minerals fell around 4% in 2012 to US$2.3 billion.
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Ghana’s Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Alhaji Fuseini has said the country’s cooperation with the EU and others will continue until illegal logging and trade in illegally sourced and manufactured wood products is eliminated.
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Of the total Euro 29.48 million in export earnings from wood products in the first quarter Europe emerged as the major destination accounting for 41% of the trade. Imports by countries in Asia accounted for 25%, and this was closely followed by imports by African countries at 23%.
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The Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission has begun a pilot project on artisan milling as part of measures aimed at curbing illegal chainsaw milling...
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The Forestry Commission (FC) of Ghana and Tropenbos International Ghana are jointly working together to draft a policy that will ensure a supply of legal timber to the domestic market...
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According to data from the Timber Inspection Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission (FC), the total volume of wood products export for the period January to December 2012 was 251,346 cubic metres...
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A team from the Ghana Forestry Commission (GFC) visited key importers in EU member states to exchange views and inform buyers, officials from EU competent authorities, customs and timber trade federations on the interim arrangements Ghana is putting in place before it is in a position to provide FLEGT Licensed wood products...
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The Government of Ghana and the EU concluded negotiations on a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in September, 2008 and both parties signed the world’s first FLEGT VPA on November, 20th 2009...
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A three member Ghanaian delegation is in Europe to participate in a series of meetings to create awareness of the interim arrangements that Ghana has put in place to ensure the supply of legal timber to the EU market in advance of the adoption in Ghana of the FLEGT licensing system...
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Ghana’s cabinet has recently approved the revised Forest and Wildlife Policy which the focuses on the non-consumptive values of the forest including protection of water bodies, conservation of biological diversity and ecotourism...
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A total of 1,235 export permits were processed, approved
and issued by the Timber Industry Development Division
(TIDD) during the third quarter, covering shipments of
timber and wood products through the ports of Takoradi
and Tema, as well as overland exports to neighbouring
ECOWAS countries...
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