Forests

With a focus on forests and prosperity, we work to improve livelihoods and justice for those living in and around forests, and ensure forests and biodiversity are managed sustainably in ways that help climate change adaptation and mitigation

Also related to

Forestry

Forest and Farm Facility (FFF)

Local organisations

Locally controlled forestry

Community forestry

Farmer looking at coffee cherries in Belize

Insight

The benefits of backing family agroforestry businesses – food for thought

Duncan J Macqueen
01 October 2024

Two men and two women stand outsite the credit union building.

Case study

A top-level producers’ union (KANBAOCU) and its fast-growing Jwa Ngwaane Community Cooperative Credit Union

31 May 2024

Case study

Root Capital: partnering with small and growing agribusinesses to address social and environmental challenges

31 May 2024

Insight

How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions

Kata Wagner
11 April 2024

A man carries a sack of cocoa beans on his shoulders.

News

Producer organisations offer huge potential for delivering nature and climate finance

04 April 2024

Insight

Sisters are doing it for themselves in biodiverse Belize

Duncan J Macqueen
18 March 2024

Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED supports just transitions towards locally-controlled forestry that safeguard biocultural heritage, enhance entrepreneurship and improve prosperity within diverse and resilient landscapes

Collection

Localising forest-climate action

A programme of work engaging with locally-controlled forestry organisations to upscale effective climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation through the restoration of forest landscape biodiversity

Collection