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Investing in locally controlled forestry

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Farmer posing next to a cow and calf on his farm.

Agroforestry entrepreneurship by smallholder farmers – regreening Nepal

Insight, 19 November 2025

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Prioritising support for locally controlled forest enterprises

Publication, 01 May 2014

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Scaling up community forest enterprises in Tanzania

Publication, 01 April 2019

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IIED’s management response to the independent evaluation of the CoNGOs project

Publication, 01 November 2019

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Independent evaluation of the CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests project

Publication, 01 September 2019

Smoked fish is a delicacy in Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Protecting Cameroon's forests: a fishy business?

Insight, 28 July 2017

The road from Lomié in Southeast Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Cameroon's real indomitable lions are in the forest

Insight, 20 March 2017

Local farm foresters near Kumasi, Ghana. Evidence suggests that locally controlled forests are generally better for the forest and people than either protected areas or large-scale industrial business models (Photo: WWF)

Investing in locally controlled forestry – a planetary-scale solution for forests and people

Insight, 07 September 2016

A woman carries firewood in the rainforest

CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests

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Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?

Insight, 11 February 2016

Oscar Simanto, one of the founders of the African Forest Enterprises Connect Network (AFECONET), connect forest and farm producers across Africa (Image: IIED)

New network aims to connect locally controlled forest enterprises across Africa

News, 26 October 2015

South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Time to dust off the vuvuzelas

Insight, 04 September 2015

Trees at Oxford Botanical Gardens. The question is not how to engage young people in forestry issues, but how to harness that engagement (Photo: Geraldine Warren/IIED)

Nurturing the next generation of foresters

Insight, 24 August 2015

A forest ranger takes measurements of a tree at Megeni Kitasha in the Rombo District in Moshi, Tanzania (Photo: FAO/Simon Maina)

IIED at the XIV World Forestry Congress

Event on 07 September 2015

The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Star spice in Vietnam's forests

Insight, 05 August 2015

The post-2015 development agenda must recognise that the fates of forests and people are entwined. Credit: Duncan Macqueen

Saving the forests for last – in the hope, at last, of saving the forests

Insight, 31 January 2014

A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Sustainable development requires an infusion of love

Insight, 20 December 2013

Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen

Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations

Insight, 28 November 2013

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Community forestry

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