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Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
Event, 07 July 2015
Cover for 16583IIED.pdf
How can sector governance models drive sustainability performance in smallholder-dominated agricultural sectors?
… product quality levels; and that farming has a positive social and environmental impact. In a liberalised world economy there has been a … rent seeking, patronage and government mismanagement. Instead, sector management has been left to individual value chain participants. This …
Publication, 01 April 2015
A collection of IIED's most downloaded publications in 2014 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2014: publications
… senior researcher Essam Yassin Mohammed .   Building resilience to environmental change by transforming gender relations   This report, … of the LDCs as the summit's "unsung heroes".   Ecosystem- and community-based adaptation: learning from natural resource management   As …
Article, 29 December 2014
Cover for G01726.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Participation and fishing communities Addressing the challenges of fisheries development
Publication, 01 January 1997
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
Project, 27 July 2018
A farmers’ house in Bandevouri, South Region, Cameroon. Bandevouri is one of several locations where the Centre for Environment and Development seconded a law graduate to assist rural people in legal matters (Photo: Thierry Berger)
IIED webinar: improving accountability in agribusiness investments
… to their constituents • Mark Kakraba-Ampeh, from the Land Resource Management Centre (LRMC) , described a project in Ghana that supported … executive director of the Land Resource Management Centre (LRMC) , based in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a recognised land tenure expert and has … Nguiffo heads the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) , an environmental NGO in Cameroon. Samuel studied law and political science, …
Event, 06 June 2017
Esther Atieno prepares dinner for her family in Kisumu City, Kenya, using a jiko kisasa (firewood stove). Without city-wide data on electricity and fuel use available from utilities and companies, cities can survey a set of households on their energy use and extrapolate the results (Photo: Peter Kapuscinski/World Bank)
Global to local: supporting cities to meet the New Urban Agenda
… more inclusive. Different cities will need different measuring tools based on their size, capacities, and resources.  Low-cost and easy ways of measuring basic environmental, social and economic urban conditions must be identified – … may be necessary to ensure that the findings are reliable proxies.   Community-generated data:  Community organisations such as the members …
Insight, 23 March 2018
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… coordinator of the Global Water Initiative (GWI) in West Africa , based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, I travelled to Stockholm with … West Africa ' in collaboration with representatives of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Initiative Prospective … study highlighted the need to improve coordination of land, water and environmental policies. I agree, particularly if we look again at the …
Insight, 25 September 2015
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… which analyses this, notes that small gains have been made for community control since 2002 in countries like Cameroon, Tanzania and … make vital moves towards locally controlled forestry, viable forest-based climate strategies and practical forest governance. … ‘governance hardware’ is likely to be needed: strong forest and environmental institutions effectively enforcing tenure and use rules …
Insight, 15 October 2009
A woman using a hoe
Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… about increasing agricultural productivity without harmful social and environmental impacts. It recognises that there are many agricultural … at household level. Although trade-offs happen at national and community level too, we were specifically trying to answer the research … BA: I think it has to be this: farmers have objectives that are based on their resources, and current development policies are hindering …
Article, 17 February 2020