The project, Promoting Sustainability and Market Values of Biodiversity-based Products (BBPs) through sustainable protocols and participatory certification processes, aims to promote community-based products’ conservation and market values through the Forest Harvest Collective Mark (FHCM). This initiative will improve BBP producers’ livelihoods and ensure biodiversity conservation by implementing effective production and harvesting protocols and participatory certification mechanisms.
The project entitled Promoting sustainability and market values of Biodiversity-based Products (BBPs) through sustainable protocols and participatory certification processes aims to promote the conservation and market values of community-based products through the Forest Harvest Collective Mark (FHCM). This initiative will contribute in improving livelihoods of BBP producers, and ensure biodiversity conservation by putting in place effective production and harvesting protocols and participatory certification mechanisms. Among the activities will involve consultations with and mobilisation of local stakeholders and partners in the previous BBP project countries, such as Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam.
Specifically, through this collaboration, the producers of the Apis cerana honey are also supported in expanding standards and protocols to include this bee species and to start implementing the standards and protocols under the ASEAN banner. This makes efforts at sustainability more efficient, as protocols could be adopted officially and become one of ASEAN’s first reference guides in national level conservation and development processes. The virtual consultation activity was held on 20 August 2021.
Among the activities involve the consultations with and mobilisation of local stakeholders and partners in the previous BBP project countries, such as Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam.
Through this collaboration, we are also extending our support to the producers of the Apis cerana honey. The project aims to expand standards and protocols to include this bee species and to initiate the implementation of these standards and protocols under the ASEAN banner. Promoting BBP makes sustainability efforts more efficient as producers could officially adopt the protocols and become one of ASEAN’s first reference guides in national-level conservation and development processes.
Since 2010, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has worked with Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF)
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