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AUTHOR(S): Daan van Uhm, Milou Tjoonk, Eliode Bakole | Posted on 06 December 2022
This paper documents the drivers, actors and harms behind the illegal charcoal and timber trade in the Eastern DRC. It shows how complex relationships and interactions between armed groups, timber and charcoal traders, and local inhabitants contribute to illegal deforestation, causing socio-economic and environmental harm.