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Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay
… to over-harvesting in the 1990s, Ghanaian regulations now require the Forestry Commission to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at … Also written into this legislation is a requirement for the Forestry Commission to update these stumpage fees quarterly. But as a … export prices. Secondly, there has been no sector policy to index these free-on-board linked stumpage fees to inflation. Taking both …
Insight, 19 March 2015
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… a closer look at the objectives of national agricultural policies and forestry, biodiversity and REDD+ policy strategies would identify and … in risk mitigation and management strategies such as weather-based index insurance to build resilience against climate shocks. 3. Invest in …
Insight, 20 September 2021
The Bandiagara plateau in Central Mali has been hit by repeated droughts. Climate change is making the weather unpredictable, resulting in poor harvests and increased malnutrition (Photo: Irina Mosel/ODI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Mali is extremely vulnerable and unable to combat climate change impacts
Article, 24 November 2015
Women living in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve are trained to sustainably harvest xate palms, providing them with income and preserving the reserve's biodiversity (Photo: Dani Newcomb/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
… resource management sectors – notably agriculture, fisheries, and forestry – in both developing and developed countries. Furthermore, according to the OECD’s Social Institutions & Gender Index, as of 2014 (PDF) , laws or customary practices of 102 countries …
Insight, 09 October 2018