Sustainable timber

8 entries

A map from above showing a large green area (forest) with a large swathe of light green cutting through the centre, showing the extent of deforestatation.

Can Europe’s new deforestation regulation address concerns about trade and climate justice?

Lorenzo Cotula and Anirudh Nanda
25 March 2024

Outside view of large wooden building among trees and under a blue sky.

Cities into sinks: storing carbon in wooden architecture to mitigate climate change

January 2021 - ongoing

A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber

China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?

James Mayers
19 June 2019

Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)

Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests

Duncan J Macqueen
14 August 2018

A logger poses with a small mukula tree cut from deep in the forest.

Saving trees or improving lives?

Long read 19 April 2017

Mist over the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda (Photo: Brian Harries, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Mist clears on China in African forests

Long read 15 February 2017

Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?

Xiaoxue Weng
31 March 2015

Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay

James Mayers
19 March 2015

A map from above showing a large green area (forest) with a large swathe of light green cutting through the centre, showing the extent of deforestatation.

Can Europe’s new deforestation regulation address concerns about trade and climate justice?

Insight, 25 March 2024

Outside view of large wooden building among trees and under a blue sky.

Cities into sinks: storing carbon in wooden architecture to mitigate climate change

Active Project

A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber

China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?

Insight, 19 June 2019

Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)

Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests

Insight, 14 August 2018

A logger poses with a small mukula tree cut from deep in the forest.

Saving trees or improving lives?

Long read, 19 April 2017

Mist over the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda (Photo: Brian Harries, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Mist clears on China in African forests

Long read, 15 February 2017

Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?

Insight, 31 March 2015

Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay

Insight, 19 March 2015

Timber in Ethiopia

Report sets stage for China-Africa forest governance research

News, 31 July 2013

Stakeholders inspect timber as part of the Eighth field dialogue on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) in Yogyakarta (Jogya), Central Java Province, Indonesia.

Needed: Local farmers and communities to plant trees in Indonesia

Insight, 22 February 2012