Operators of Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) feel more capable of meeting Ghana's timber legality standards (GhLAS) following interventions by the Kumasi Wood Cluster Association (KWC) and Preferred by Nature.
Women in Timber Ghana Association (WiTG), the first ever national association of women entrepreneurs in the timber industry and forest sector, launched.
KWC, in partnership with the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry and Timber Industry Development Division of Ghana's Forestry Commission Ghana, is inviting all and sundry to a major trade show of Ghana-made wood products using plantation and lesser-used wood species.
The Compendium of Some Ghanaian Timber Species published by KWC, with funding support from the UKaid through the FGMC programme, is now available online.
Kumasi Wood Cluster Association (KWC), the Timber Industry Development Division of the Forestry Commission and the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry, supported by the UKaid and UKTTF, organized the foremost timber exhibition event, in recent times, on the theme: "Emerging wood species fit for housing development and construction works in Ghana".
KWC, the implementation partner for the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFRP) in the Atewa hotspot intervention area, is creating livelihood options in beekeeping, mushroom and snail farming for smallholder cocoa farmers who have adopted climate-smart farming practices.