El cuarto de una serie de seis seminarios sobre mercados y agricultores de pequeña escala se llevará a cabo en Manchester, Reino Unido, el 25 de mayo de 2011.
Every month we highlight a new, groundbreaking or bestselling IIED research outcome. This month we feature a ground breaking IIED publication Tenure in REDD: Start-point or afterthought?
The gender and generation programme of work brings together the work of IIED and its partners to analyse and integrate gender and generation issues in all its activites, and to engage and contribute to the emerging debates.
The Green Economy Coalition brings together environment,development, trade union, consumer and business sectors, North and South. The GEC is committed to a common cause: accelerating a transition to a new green economy.
Thanks to the Borana, Somali, Gabra and Turkana communities, for welcoming the team and sharing their opinions. Commissioned by the Ministry for Development of Northern Kenya and other arid lands. Produced by IIED.
A series of short films that ask – who gets to decide about forests? With deforestation causing such havoc for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, it is an important question.
Share the latest developments in adaptation planning and practices, priority sectors and measures at different levels and disseminate knowledge among stakeholders and communities. Highlights from the conference can be seen in a series of daily video logs by Saleemul Huq
Every month we highlight a new, groundbreaking or bestselling IIED research outcome. This month we feature IIED's new publications Bundles of energy: the case for renewable biomass energy.
Trees in local hands details how the FGLG team in Ghana are working on practical ways of securing local decision-making to address the issue of chainsaw lumbering.
Forests fight back tells the epic tale of the fierce and ultimately successful battle to save the Mabira forest reserve in Uganda from being sold off to private agribusiness.
Local people need legal rights to forests shows how benefits have started to accrue to communities in Vietnam when they were given commercial rights to use forests – and how this provides an incentive for sustainable forest management.
Burning issues: The problem of charcoal details how the FGLG team in Malawi put the charcoal issue on the map as the country’s’ third largest industry and brought government together with charcoal producers in search of more sustainable
Within development circles, there’s a common, if recent, mantra that the key to reducing poverty in the global South lies in investing in agriculture. Increasingly that investment focuses on building bridges between small-scale farmers and private markets in approaches known as ‘markets for the poor’.
The Fifth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from Monday, 28 to Thursday, 31 March 2011. Participants, represented NGOs, government, international organisations, and academia. Here are some of the things they had to say.
