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FLEGT/VPA process and the development of opportunities for a wood inter-regional market

Intra-African trade opportunities


Presentation plan

• Current intra-african legal wood trade situation

• FLEGT/VPA process progress in Central and West Africa

• VPA and the issue of trade between Congo Basin and Ghana

• Working for the African timber market development


Current intra-african legal wood flows

According to European Commission/FAO/ITTO studies and ATIBT statistics:

– Important transboundary wood flows in Africa– Few legal wood flows exist between Central and West Africa


FLEGT/VPA process progress in Central and West Africa

09/05/2011

Targeted country

Governmentletter of intent

Negociations VPA initiated

Agreementsignature

Agreementratification

Licensesissued

2014


VPA and the issue of trade between Congo Basin and Ghana (1)

• VPA implementation : Ghana is the leader

• VPA agreed in Africa for :Congo, Cameroon, CAR and Liberia– The agreement concerns domestic market as well (except CAR)

• Ghana will need to secure its sources of legal wood since – natural forest ressources are highly degraded– artificial forest resources are not sufficient– VPA concerns its domestic market too

Will the Congo Basin countries be able to provide legal wood? When ?


• Possibility of a regional market between Central Africa and Ghana if:

– Congo Basin countries keep on progressing with the VPA negociations and implementation

– Stake holders work together to • Develop market opportunities (and wood processing)• Mitigate the main constraints

IFIA’s workshops

VPA and the issue of trade between Congo Basin and Ghana (2)


Working for the African timber market development (1)

• Following Racewood 2010 (22 & 23 march, Douala)

– All the stake holders agreed on the need for Congo Basin to develop wood processing and its local + inter-regional markets

– ATIBT/IFIA has joined ITTO and FAO for creating a public-private dialogue (administratives and private sector) to focus on African timber market & wood processing development

organization of workshops: Yaounde (21-22 September 2010), Brazzaville (22-23 March 2011) and Kinshasa (19-20 May 2011)

To write the « white book of the regional timber market & wood processing in the Congo Basin countries» agreed by all the stakeholders



• Workshops stressed on:

– tricky and cumbersome custom regulations imposed to formal trade;

– bad infrastructures

– bad energy supply

– illegality is also a hindering factor;

– fiscality

For more information : www.atibt.org

As a conclusion, Flegt by itself is not enough and should be reinforced by a policy

(The workshop in Libreville will take place June 14th and 15th)



• A major event for African wood industries : – Racewood 2011 (29 & 30 September, Pointe Noire, Congo

Brazzaville)– Fourth meeting of a project supported by European

Commission and Pro€invest

« If 2005- 2010 represented the growing of responsable certification for the private sector, the 5 following years will be the advanced tropical wood

processing and local & regional markets development »

Meeting suppliers, importers, prescribers, experts, donors to catch opportunities and understand future tropical forest challenges to get prepared…

A unique opportunity for African tropical timber sector



• Racewood 2011 is a 2 day program with among others :

– 3 thematic workshops with the best experts on :

• Processing (market, requirements and opportunities, the White Book,tropical wood market studies presentation)

• Legality and certification (FLEGT progress, Lacey Act, Europe and Africa points of view)

• Concession of the future? (REDD+, an other job for foresters?)

– But also :

• Technical sessions, « B to B » meetings

• The White book on timber processing (1st part)

• Wood houses show


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Suscribe at www.race-wood.com

Do not miss it !


Marine Leblanc IFIA/ATIBTForest Governance Forum, Accra 7th-8th june 2011

Thank you for your kind attention

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References

ATIBT, 2010. La lettre de l’ATIBT, statistiques 2009. N°32

European Commission, 2008. Cross-border Trade of Timber et Wood Productsin West Africa. Final report. European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

ITTO, 2009. Conférence internationale sur la promotion du commerce intra-africain des bois et produits bois. Accra, Ghana

ITTO, 2010. Série technique de l’OIBT. Bonne entente entre voisin, promouvoir les marchés intra-africains du bois et des produits bois. N°35

ITTO, 2011. Tropical timber market report, May 2011

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