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Bridging the gaps between knowledge and practices on forested landscape governance
More informationAsian countries have a lot of potential for Forest Risk Commodity (FRC) as the economical driven where the smallholder play important roles in developing the commodities. With the current developing international regulations, the huge opportunity for selling in the international market has required the smallholder to comply with requirements. Many best practices have developed to facilitate the smallholder to comply with part FRC components that consist of regulatory compliance, traceability, access to finance, market access and partnership and data management. All of this effort needs to be integrated to ensure the smallholder can fulfil the FRC requirements for sustainable businesses.
‘Ensuring no smallholder is left behind in deforestation-free trade’ is an important issue that we need to consider nowadays. Smallholders are the vulnerable group to comply with the high requirements of international rules related to Forest Risk Commodity (FRC), including the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which currently becomes an issue in many countries. Their limitation on capacities and resources led them to be left many steps behind in fulfilling every component of FRC. By seeing these conditions, many organizations in Asia that are known to have diverse commodities to be exported to the international market provide some interventions to help the smallholders in complying with the FRC components.
On March 11, 2025, a consultation meeting for the draft of West Kalimantan Indicative Map of High Conservation Value Areas (HCVA) was held in Pontianak, in the form of a Focused Group Discussion (FGD). The meeting was hosted by the Provincial Environment and Forestry Office (DLHK) and supported by Tropenbos Indonesia.
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