The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) informs that, thanks to its FAO-EU Flegt program initiated in 2016 with the aim of ensuring the legality of wood supply on the domestic market, 2000 m³ of wood from legal sources have supplied Cameroonian SMEs between 2019 and 2020.

To achieve this, various projects financed by this program have initiated and then formalized the collaboration between SMEs and holders of legal timber sources in Cameroon. To this end, thirteen supply contracts between small operators and holders of forest titles (communal and community forests) were signed between 2017 and 2020.

Memoranda of Understanding have also been signed between some of these SMEs and industrialists for the supply of legal timber, in collaboration with the Groupement de la filière bois au Cameroun (GFBC) and the Cameroonian Federation of Associations and Professionals in Secondary Wood Processing (Fecaprobois). This is notably the case of the Cooperative of Professionals in Secondary Wood Processing (Coop-CA Extraboicam) which has signed a contract with a forestry company for the supply of 50 m³ of legal industrial timber for the association.

According to FAO, the FAO-EU Flegt program continues to support the private sector in Cameroon to strengthen its involvement in the implementation of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (Flegt) signed on October 6, 2010 between Cameroon and the European Union (EU) and ratified on August 9, 2011 by the State of Cameroon. 

Source: investiraucameroun

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