8th August, 2017. A team of Ghanaian representatives from the Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources, Forestry Commission, Private Sector and Civil Society have commenced a three-day learning and sharing programme in Indonesia. This is…
Ghana would soon be importing timber from neighbouring countries, CEO of Domestic Lumber Trade Association of Ghana (DOLTA), Mr. Kofi Afreh-Boakye has hinted. He said this is in order to bridge the demand-supply gap on…
Civic Response has commenced training on TVD legality verification audits for selected civil society representatives. The training which comes in two-fold – classroom-based training, and field-based training – is aimed at building the capacity of…
I have just returned from a two-week policy tour of Europe, visiting decision makers working on the EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan in Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands. I…
Great Britain is one of Ghana’s strategic development partners and our political partnership is over 200 years old. For this reason and Britain’s own reputation, as a support for international development, it needs to continue…
The galamsey menace has become a social canker which needs the attention of all well-meaning Ghanaians. It is therefore not surprising that most Ghanaians praised the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu,…
Galamsey operations over the years have destroyed most of our agriculture lands, as well as polluted many water bodies in Ghana. This has subsequently led to water shortages in some parts of the country. The…
Over the last two decades, companies in search of vast tracts of available land for agriculture, mining, and other uses have increasingly turned to rural Asia and Africa. From 2008 to 2010, between 51 and…
Ghana’s forests and the people who depend on them face an illegal logging and mining epidemic. The country’s illegal exports of rosewood accounted for 10 percent of global trade in 2016, much of it from…
An international conference on Independent Forest Monitoring has been held in Accra by Civic Response. The two-day conference, which was attended by participants from government, civil society, the private sector, forest-dependent communities, international organisations, the…