Sustainability Policy of FORM Ghana Ltd.

FORM Ghana Ltd. wishes to grow high quality planting stock in its nurseries and to plant and manage model plantations according to the best techniques available worldwide.

High quality on a technical as well as on a social and environmental level is the key to success in this endeavour. The production from forest plantations certified for sustainable management will ensure an improved social standard and employment for the local population, the creation or an upgrading of the local economy and a guaranteed timber supply for the forest industry.

FORM Ghana Ltd. commits itself to manage its plantations in a responsible and socially, environmentally and economically sustainable way. To this end FORM Ghana Ltd. will operate in compliance with the Principles and Criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

FORM Ghana Ltd. offers its employees a safe and healthy working environment, with good employment terms, favourable insurance policy conditions and pension build-up. Besides, FORM Ghana aims to comply with the social criteria of FSC, not only for the plantation employees, but also for local people that are indirectly involved in the activities of FORM Ghana.

FORM Ghana Ltd. aspires to conserve and restore biological diversity, water sources, and fragile ecosystems found in or near its plantations. Plantations will be managed in such a way that they will have a positive influence on the global carbon balance. The created offset will be certified according to an internationally acceptable standard.
FORM Ghana Ltd. will operate in respect to Ghanaian laws as well as the international conventions valid in Ghana.

 
Mr. Mans Vroom
Project Director