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Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business organisations
… medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) and global goods (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral … perspectives of local forest-family smallholders, communities and indigenous peoples into coherent and viable business value propositions? …
Publication, 01 August 2015
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… pathways' – unique ways of working that help IIED to deliver lasting change. Our  annual report for 2017/18  looks at how IIED uses these … Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in international negotiations on climate change . LDCs have most at stake, but are least able to cope … (FFPOs). The FFF vision is that smallholders, communities, and indigenous peoples and women's organisations have improved livelihoods …
Page, 24 October 2018
A baby orangutan clings to its mother as she hangs from a branch
Making the market work for nature while helping to tackle poverty
… biocredits – units of biodiversity in all its forms, from forests to indigenous seed varieties, coral reefs to tigers and insects. The value … buyers who want to improve and protect biodiversity or tackle climate change. Biocredits would provide a financial incentive to increase …
Insight, 03 March 2020
A hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting
… was infrequent and lacked impact. In March 2013 things began to change. At a stocktaking workshop in Kadoma participants from across … by the Biodiversity Office of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate. Journalists from print, radio and TV attended, taking the … as mining in national parks and the cutting down of huge swathes of indigenous trees for the tobacco curing process. Elizabeth Chengeta …
Article, 21 March 2016
Two people carrying containers on their heads
COVID-19 and the sites of rights resilience
… engaged in local arenas include organised social movements, such as indigenous and agrarian movements, that have escalated local struggles … greater emphasis on socio-economic rights and on the human rights/climate change interface, and on confronting issues of socio-economic justice . …
Insight, 26 May 2020
Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
… and prices will remain higher than before 2007-08.  Socioeconomic change at both national and global levels is driving this trend: … urbanisation drives dependence on agricultural commodities, and climate change can exacerbate bottlenecks in agricultural supplies.  In … Africa , Venezuela and Zimbabwe (subscription required for all) , indigenous peoples' land restitution claims in Paraguay (PDF) , and …
Insight, 25 May 2016
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Growing Forest Partnerships briefing: Sustainable forestry - connecting local to global and vice versa
… of forestry resources. As the world looks for a way to mitigate climate change, more and more money is being committed to forests. The figure … or global level. And yet, it is the smallholders, local communities, indigenous peoples and civil society groups who manage or own a third of …
Publication, 01 January 2011
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop … the Andes to allow people from around the world to hear directly from Indigenous experts from the Potato Park in Peru. 4 Protracted … what’s being said. 6 How the poorest countries are taking on climate change [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36SB3UaY5N8] “We know …
Insight, 30 December 2020
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Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) Annual Symposium 2007
… at the London Zoo, London (UK). The main theme of the symposium was climate change – and the implications this has for biodiversity and for poor … organisations (including donor agencies, conservation organisations, indigenous people’s groups and development NGOs), coming from both …
Publication, 01 November 2007
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… a vital component in any realistic strategy going forward to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. So who is this group and where has it … GFP had therefore invited various local community groups representing indigenous peoples, tribal peoples, minorities and forest dwellers to …
Insight, 17 January 2011