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| May 2008 |
 REGISTRATION OPEN! Please click here to register.
The ISE Board, in collaboration with IIED and other partner organisations, is pleased to announce the 11th International Congress Of Ethnobiology, Cusco, Peru 25-30 June 2008.
Call for Participation and Contributions from host organization ANDES. The organizers invite written, video, artistic and other contributions on the Congress theme "Livelihoods and Collective Biocultural Heritage". Please visit the ICE 11 website at www.icecusco.net.
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 Making food systems work for people and planet
With food hitting the headlines like never before, the International Institute for Environment and Development has launched a web-based publication that describes how to rethink food production and distribution for environmental and social gain. Towards Food Sovereignty is an online book with linked video and audio files, whose first three chapters are now freely available at IIED’s website.
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 International workshop to share learning and ideas on facilitating support for small and medium forest enterpsies
Partner organisations and collaborators in the Forest Connect project will meet in Edinburgh, 2-4 July 2008 to start developing a toolkit to facilitate support for small and medium forest enterprises. Please see the workshop announcement or contact duncan.macqueen@iied.org for further details.
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| April 2008 |
 Community Forest Management for Whom? Learning from field experience in Vietnam
Following surveys in two provinces in Vietnam, a brief by the Forest Governance Learning Group and RECOFTC highlights the role of community forest management in poverty reduction and the conditions that are required for its successful implementation. External agencies are called upon to help build local awareness and capacity.
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Rethinking agriculture research to meet people's needs
People in Africa, Latin America and South and West Asia will have their say about the future of food and farming under a major project by IIED that aims to make agricultural research better at serving people's needs.
The new project will enable citizens to decide how to design food and agriculture research and policies that are accountable to wider society.
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| March 2008 |
Climate fight must enlist biodiversity and communities
UN-led efforts to address climate change, conserve biodiversity and fight poverty must pay greater attention to the links between these global challenges, says IIED paper.
The paper shows that biodiversity has a key role to play in both adapting to the impacts ahead and cutting greenhouse gases but that to be effective policies must have greater input from local communities. |
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Forest Connect alliance calls for better support services to small and medium forest enterprises
A new report by IIED reviews best practice support structures for small and medium forest enterprises and provides a framework to facilitate policy influence, better links to markets and improved business development services.
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Join the Forest Connect online social network
As part of the IIED/FAO project - Forest Connect, a new online network has been created to share news, tools, tactics and documents to help improve the prospects of small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) around the world. Membership of the network is free and open to everyone working or interested in SMFE issues. Please visit www.forestconnect.ning.com to become a member and join the discussion. |
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Update on IIED assessment of Global Forest Partnership
IIED has completed the first stage of its assessment of the World Bank’s idea of a ‘Global Forest Partnership’. This has involved opinion surveys, interviews and focus groups in seven countries, a survey of indigenous peoples, interviews of international organisations and finance bodies, and a web-based survey.
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About the Natural Resources Group
The purpose of IIED’s Natural Resources Group is to build partnerships, capacity and wise decision-making for fair and sustainable use of natural resources. Our priority in pursuing this purpose is on local control and management of natural resources and other ecosystem services, and on the necessary changes needed at international and national level to make this happen. We will search for the truth with passion - challenging conventional wisdoms wherever needed – and will employ a range of tactics to use that evidence to bring change about.
Ways of working
Our strength lies in a diverse and experienced network of partners made up of NGOs, CBOs, government departments, universities, independent research organisations and international agencies in Asia (Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, China, Pakistan, Vietnam), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe), Latin America and The Caribbean (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad), as well as collaborators in Australia, North America and Europe.
In our work, we pay great attention to building links between local level action, national policy debates and global levels. Our methods include collaborative research, participatory learning and action, multi-stakeholder platforms, local and national learning groups, policy oriented training and engagement, information materials and tools, and support for advocacy coalitions.
Natural Resources Research Themes
We work within the three research themes listed below, under three broad programmes of work. Further details can be found on the Drylands, Sustainable Agriculture & Biodiversity and the Forestry homepages.
- Ecosystem resilience and adaptive management
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