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According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the rate of inflation increased in February but at a slower rate than the 0.86% rate recorded in January...
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Jose Dance, general coordinator of the National Forest Inventory Project and Sustainable Forest Management of Peru to the FAO Climate Change office has estimated that annually about 150,000 hectares of forest are destroyed in Peru and that since 1990 a total of 12 million hectares has been deforested...
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The Brazilian Central Bank is forecasting that economic growth in 2013 will reach 4 percent. In December 2012 the economy expanded by 0.26% compared to levels in November and this reflected the overall slowdown in the economy towards the end of the year...
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Erik Fischer, chairman of the Wood and Wood Industry Committee of the exporters association, Adex, has reported that timber exports in 2012 reached US$ 164 million and that this represented a 3% decline on levels one year earlier...
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A group of civil society organizations has petitioned the head of the Ministry of Agriculture (Minag), Milton Von Hesse, for a more dynamic reform of the forest and wildlife sectors to, as they say, "give it competitiveness and inclusion "...
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A slowing of log exports in the early part of the month was observed, the cause of which say analysts, was the extended holidays in the main western markets...
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The Strategic Affairs Secretariat (SAE) of the Brazilian government is developing ideas on mechanisms to stimulate more private financing in the forest sector...
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The Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade, Carlos Posada, recently met with business representatives to discuss the implications for the forestry sector arising from the Forest Trade Promotion Agreement (CPA) concluded with the United States...
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Brazil’s exports of wood products (except pulp and paper) delined 1.4% in 2012 compared to 2011, from US$ 2,396.2 billion to US$ 2,362.6 billion...
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Peru’s agriculture minister, Milton Von Hesse La
Serna has reportedly expressed deep concern about the
current forest concession system in the country...
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