IFIA, a crucial player in the sustainable development of African forestry countries

The IFIA gathers more than 300 companies through timber industry and trade associations represented within the ATIBT’s first college. Since 1996 the association contributes to the strengthening of professional structures within the timber industry in West Africa and the Congo Basin, seeking to :

- promote African timber with a focus on sustainable management of forests based on forest management planning, legal forest exploitation, certification and carbon emissions reduction throughout the chain of supply;

- encourage economic development through processing, marketing of timber products complying with environmental market requirements and local use of these products;

- promote good forest management practices within the timber industry thanks to the support of administrative, industrial and commercial partners;

- encourage transfers of competencies and technology and exchanges between international players in the forest-timber industry and all parties involved.