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The field team designing a REDD strategy talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their field research in Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique .Photo by Mike Goldwater
Inclusive environmental investments
… beyond deforestation and forest degradation, and includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of … on payments for environmental services and previous work on company-community partnerships. In looking at how to make REDD+ processes more …
Project, 07 September 2013
A community forest in Ethiopia.Credit: Growing Forest Partnerships
Local control of forests brings economic, environmental and social gains
… biofuels and sells them largely to an international market. In Nepal, community-owned forest makes up around a fifth of all forested land, with 17,685 local community groups managing more than 1.6 million hectares. The Amrithdhara community forest is managed by 814 households who together earn …
News, 13 June 2012
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
Insight, 25 February 2021
Forest Connect: championing local forest enterprises
… forestry and reaffirm our vision that poverty reduction and forest conservation can go hand in hand if locally controlled forest … Farm Africa , PFM is now reversing the damage. The local community has been given management and use rights — with a 70:30 … plans for using forest resources through, for example, PFM. PFM and community forest cooperatives are now emerging across the country in …
Insight, 24 February 2011
Cover for G03068.pdf
REDD Working Papers: REDD and Sustainable Development – perspective from Tanzania
… of REDD in Tanzania, and its implications for poverty, biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management. It considers what … types of national forest reserves and the various participatory and community-based management practices already in place, the report looks …
Publication, 01 February 2011
Essam Yassin Mohammed argues that Goal 14 cannot be seen in isolation from the other Sustainable Development Goals (Image: IIED)
Understanding the SDGs: the importance of Goal 14
News, 07 September 2015
Fishermen collecting the day's catch
Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing
… an 11-day ban on fishing hilsa, and had been set up with little community input. The researchers showed the government how it could … a result, it committed to increasing economic incentives to the wider community (increasing the coverage and extending the commitment period), …
Project, 26 June 2013
“Protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous people benefits us all”
Insight, 09 June 2011
A tour group from ecotourism business Adventures in the Last Corridor explore possible caving tour options (Photo: Cathy Smith)
Business incubation motivates fire management
… that cannot be rushed. The groups formed following a series of community meetings in early 2016 – with preliminary ideas of what they … might sustainably sell. An exchange visit to some well-established community business groups in the FEDECOVERA umbrella cooperative in Alta … formalise the business and how to secure approval of the business by community leaders. An iterative self-driven process of business …
Insight, 06 March 2017
A herd of elephants (Photo: Sean Habig, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Biodiversity loss – more than an environmental emergency
… accounts for the scarcity of engagement of the development community in debates about biodiversity and how to protect it. It is not … issues. Furthermore, reports of human rights abuses in the name of conservation could justifiably persuade the development community that concern for biodiversity can work against their agenda. …
Insight, 25 July 2019