Publications

Briefing Notes

A civil society counter-brief on the Congo-EU VPA

On 9 May 2009 the government of the Republic of Congo and the European Union (EU) concluded a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that aims to solve the country’s problem of illegal logging and associated poor forest governance....

20/05/2010

What changes are needed? The implementation of EUs Rural Development Policy

This report follows up FERN’s earlier study “Funding forests into the future? How the European Fund for Rural Development affects Europe’s forests”. It focuses on how national programmes – and more specifically their forestry...

14/05/2010

Briefing Notes

A civil society counter-brief on the Cameroon–EU VPA

On 6th May 2010, the Cameroonian Government and the European Union (EU) concluded a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that aims to solve the country’s pervasive problem of illegal logging and associated poor governance. The...

05/05/2010