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Logging truck in Cameroon. Credit: World Resources Institute (Creative Commons)
What’s missing from private-sector REDD+?
… sector brings much needed know-how to REDD+ there are challenges about how investments in ecosystem-based commodities — such as carbon in … rights confusion The second big challenge is the lack of clarity about who has rights to the carbon in the trees. This clarity will be … about rights and benefits. Isilda Nhantumbo is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group. She will present this research at the …
Insight, 29 January 2014
The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Do you have the power to influence your own life?
… to reflect on past actions and change behaviours accordingly. In IIED we prioritise partnership. We see our role as bringing local … not collectively unaware of the challenges we face. This is not just about communication or interpretation – this is also about fear, power, context, language etc. John Gaventa – who worked with …
Insight, 06 March 2015
Open letter to Bill Gates on African land acquisitions
… IIED's director Dr Camillla Toulmin, responds to comments Bill Gates made about large-scale land acquisitions in a recent interview. 11 February … your interview this week on AllAfrica.Com , you replied to a question about IIED's recent report Land deals in Africa: What is in the …
News, 11 February 2011
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal (Photo: Sajal Sthapit)
Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
… But sceptics in Nepal are increasingly asking critical questions about how REDD+ will unfold. How and to what extent will communities and … activities to reduce risks the SESA identifies. Levels of knowledge about REDD+ and SESA remain low among many groups in Nepal, leading to … deal with at a later stage. Simon Milledge leads the Forest Team at IIED ( simon.milledge@iied.org ). This post was first published by …
Insight, 09 April 2014
Indonesia meeting to show how forests can bring sustainable benefits to all
… from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) which coordinates the FGLG. “Who gets to decide what about forests is vitally important,” says James Mayers, head of the … negotiations in Copenhagen in December as deforestation produces about 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions. In Copenhagen, governments …
News, 02 December 2009
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The voices of women cooks in food markets in La Paz
… through surveys conducted with customers, we gained valuable insights about the women’s needs and concerns and about their customers’ preferences. …
Publication, 01 April 2020
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Improving the living conditions of communities affected by dam projects: proposals from West African stakeholders
… and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) organised a conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was attended by about 50 participants from West Africa representing civil society …
Publication, 01 January 2013
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Do investment treaties unduly constrain regulatory space?
… and commentators warning of a ‘legitimacy crisis’. Controversy about the interface between investment promotion and regulatory space … making of these political choices. This article was produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 December 2014
Poultry farming is part of the sustainable agriculture system, along with crop production and fisheries, at Songhai Centre, in Porto Novo, Benin (Photo: Mark Surman via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0pGB1UU4ao] IIED, which has long been working with LDCs, is contributing with a … green and blue economy aims to: Examine the concerns raised by LDCs about the green economy concept and explore ways to overcome them; … side event on forests aims to: Raise understanding among participants about how the SDG framework can best enable forests to contribute …
Insight, 25 July 2014
Conference delegates visited an irrigation project in Thanh Hoa province
6th Conference on community-based adaptation to climate change
Article, 10 November 2011