Anna Bolin

Anna Bolin was a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group until August 2021

Languages: English, French

Expertise

Community forest management and forest tenure systems in tropical forest countries; the role of forest and farm organisations and networks in strengthening local rights to resources and achieving sustainable development at the local level; REDD+ negotiations in the UNFCCC and at the level of country implementation; impact of global forest risk commodities on tropical deforestation. Particular experience in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Before IIED

Project manager, Global Canopy Programme, Oxford, UK.

Insights

Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)

Biodiversity: a women’s business?

Insight, 29 November 2018

Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)

Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two

Insight, 04 February 2015

Publications

Routes to change: rural women’s voices in land, climate and market governance in sub-Saharan Africa

28 July 2021

Resolving land-related conflicts through dialogue: Lessons from the outskirts of a protected area in Cameroon

05 December 2020

Can collective intellectual property rights preserve culture and biodiversity?

01 September 2020

Women’s empowerment through collective action

01 June 2020

Remote forest producers: reaping the benefits of collective action

01 April 2020

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

01 November 2019

How forest and farm producer organisations deliver social and cultural services

01 April 2019

Measured development: options to distinguish and measure the impacts of business models of forest and farm producers

01 March 2019

Chinese investment in DRC: a view from the forest

01 March 2019

Transforming gender relations: upscaling collective action in women’s entrepreneurship

01 July 2018

Unlocking barriers to financing sustainable forest-related SMEs: Lessons from Mozambique and Guatemala

01 June 2018

Forest business incubation: Towards sustainable forest and farm producer organisation (FFPO) businesses that ensure climate resilient landscapes

01 February 2018

ForBInc: Forest business incubation toolkit by and for Forest and Farm Producer Organisations

01 February 2018

Opportunities and approaches to supporting: community forest enterprises - proceedings of the first CoNGOs learning event, Kribi, Cameroon (18-20 July 2017)

01 October 2017

Advisory inputs on strengthening the technical capacity of Community Based Forest Enterprises (CBFE) in Indonesia

01 June 2017

Risk management for locally controlled forest business - securing the future: Proceedings of the fifth international Forest Connect workshop

01 March 2017