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Bringing Africa’s artisanal timber sector into the formal mix

Published on 08 Dec 2015
Domestic wood or artisanal logging markets in sub-Saharan Africa (as oppose to large-scale commercial felling) employ hundreds of thousands of people, according to the Centre for International Forestry Research. It is an industry that provides employment and wages for entire communities and that has huge socio-economic and environmental importance.
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