Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance (SFPGA)
The Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance is a public/private partnership that seeks to make markets work for forests and people. Together, the partners in the Global Alliance work to advance a new model for forest conservation and community development in USAID-client countries in which sustainable forest management is rewarded in the global marketplace. By reducing trade in illegally harvested or unsustainably managed forest products, opportunities for resource-dependent communities and low-income producers will grow.
Initiated by USAID along with Metafore, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Global Alliance includes corporate and governmental partners such as The Home Depot and the USDA Forest Service.
Global Alliance partners work together to increase the demand for responsibly harvested forest products by buyers in developed countries, and to increase supply of these forest products from producers in developing countries by:
- Developing and applying tools for responsible forestry;
- Facilitating market links between producers and buyers of responsible forest products;
- Supporting companies committed to implementing responsible purchasing policies;
- Building market knowledge of producers and suppliers.
Learn more about USAID’s Global Development Alliance and its activities in the Water sector.
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