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Forest Stewardship Council
The Forest Stewardship Council promotes responsible forest management and provides a globally-recognised and trusted labeling scheme for timber and timber products.
The Forest Stewardship Council’s global forest certification system enables consumers to identify, purchase and use timber and timber products produced from well-managed forests that ensure resource rights and income for forest-dependent people.
The Forest Stewardship Council’s “tick tree” logo is used on product labels to indicate whether products are certified.
Consumers can b
uy products that feature the logo safe in the knowledge that forest-dependent people have been fairly treated and they are not contributing to deforestation.
In Tanzania, Sound & Fair partner, Mpingo Conservation and Development, facilitates the establishment of Forest Stewardship Council certification in forest communities.
The first step is for communities to organise themselves under Participatory Forest Management rules as Village Land Forest Reserves.
Once these legal boundaries are in place, Village Land Forest Reserves undergo a period of preparation for certification involving the establishment of institutional structures and capacity for managing the forest in a responsible way and ensuring the fair treatment of all members of the community.
Once these conditions have been met, the Village Land Forest Reserve becomes certified and any timber harvested can feature the Forest Stewardship Council logo.
Annual inspections are carried out subsequently to ensure that the rules are properly adhered to.
To date six Village Land Forest Reserves have become certified:
Total area of FSC-certified, community-managed forest in Tanzania: 21,232 hectares.
Read more about the Forest Stewardship Council