Legalizing Cameroon’s timber production chain
Channel: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Date: 2017-01-11

In Cameroon the domestic timber industry is hugely important to the economy and creates thousands of jobs.
Due to a lack of government regulation, timber smallholders are effectively criminalised and approximately half of the country’s timber is sold on the black market.
Under a voluntary partnership agreement signed with the European Union, the Cameroonian government is now attempting to legalise the entire timber production chain.