Alexandra Benjamin

Community forestry in Liberia

In a world where communities have less access and ownership to land and forests, what happens when forests are too small to commercially log?

This report documents three community stories, showing how they have tried to benefit...

13/03/2019

Webinars on the EU and UK consultations on Regulatory Proposals to Halt Deforestation

Highlights of the webinar:

The webinars in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish (click on the links for the slides) were attended by over 100 participants, including civil society from producer countries, as well...

28/09/2020

Liberia's Ebola lessons can help communities beat coronavirus

On March 16, Liberia’s first recorded coronavirus case was confirmed to be a government official who had just returned from the Green Climate Fund’s board meeting in Switzerland. The news sparked immediate recriminations. This was...

16/04/2020

Our Forests Our Lives

From the Liberian women fighting for the right to own and govern land that’s rightfully theirs, to the Guyanese Indigenous Peoples resisting companies attempting to seize their forests these stories come from different parts of the globe, but are bound by a common thread. 

24/09/2019

This Land is Ours

Alexandra Benjamin interviews Liberian women struggling for their land rights, and examines the law that could finally help bring them justice.

24/09/2019

Rooting for change - VPA Update, June 2018

One year ago, forests and their crucial ecological and economic role were again at the forefront of the EU’s policy agenda. In June 2017, at the EU conference on illegal logging and deforestation, EU Commissioner for International...

10/06/2018

The UK’s plan to stop illegal deforestation is full of holes

Britons, on average, devour 700,000 tonnes of chocolate a year, or three bars a week per person. But how many of them are aware of the provenance of their chocolate, or its true cost? 

Most chocolate sold in the UK is made from...

09/10/2020