Tropical timber projects of ATIBT

Projects developed by the ATIBT team aim to:

Promote the implementation of responsible forest management and forestry practices
Facilitate certification recognition programmes

Facilitate the implementation of the FLEGT and VPAs
Facilitate market access through the marketing programme

Promote industrialisation in producing countries
Support responsible management

ADEFAC

Continuous education in the service of sustainable forest management.

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P3FAC

Sustainable management of forests in Central Africa, consolidating over 5 years new scientific data on forest dynamics

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Lesser Known Timber Species

ATIBT launches the project “LKTS 2020”: promotion of Lesser Known Timber Species (LKTS) in the Congo Basin.

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Governance, Flegt Redd and Certification

Tropical dense rainforests are at the heart of many issues whose scope affects multiple stakeholders: local populations and governments, economic operators, Western consumers, and non-governmental organizations.

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PAFC Congo Basin

Implementation of a regional approach to the development of PEFC certification systems.

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The Marketing Programme

This programme, funded by the AFD (French Development Agency) and the PPECF, aims to promote tropical timber in international markets.

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DynAfFor

The DynAfFor project concerns Central African forests’ structure and dynamics: moving towards timber processing rules that integrate the ecological functioning of tree populations and the variability of environmental conditions.

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Cogeneration

COMPLETED PROJECT - Reuse of sawmill timber waste by cogeneration plants operated by Central African forestry companies.

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ECOFORAF

COMPLETED PROJECT - The ECOFORAF project aims to support the eco-certification of African forest concessions.

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Profor

COMPLETED PROJECT - PROFOR is a research programme on the domestic markets of Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Tropical timber nomenclature

COMPLETED PROJECT - For the last 60 years, ATIBT has been updating a classification of tropical timber, establishing a correlation between each botanical species and an internationally recognised pilot name.

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