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Changing Perspectives on Forest Policy: Pakistan country study
… through experience with participatory forestry projects and conservation strategies, reinforcing a trend away from governmental …
Publication, 01 January 1998
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… farming and mining. Hopes dashed for Mozambique Having worked on community-based natural resources management for many years, I always … will pay for actions that prevent forest loss or degradation, conservation, the sustainable management of forests and enhancement of … was also identified as a pilot given its importance for forest conservation amidst threats of conversion by local medium-scale farmers …
Insight, 15 September 2011
Indigenous communities sharing potatoes in the Potato Park, near Cusco, Peru. Credit: Asociacion ANDES
Traditional innovation in farming is under threat
… tools and approaches that can strengthen them. These systems include community seed registers, biocultural protocols and participatory plant …
Insight, 02 October 2013
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… that in Denmark, wind farms were widely welcomed because they were community, rather than corporate-led, projects. Mark Simmonds responded …
Insight, 24 May 2012
Pits at Bekily sapphire mine in Toliara are on average 18 meters deep (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)
Improving governance in Madagascar's artisanal and small-scale mining sector from the ground up
… foster collaborative action for a more responsible ASM sector, GIZ's Conservation and sustainable use of natural resources programme in … participatory budgets to manage mining revenues taking into account community priorities  Plans were developed for decentralised 'one-stop …
Project, 08 March 2017
Cattle drinking water from a lake
Lessons from Paris: global biodiversity framework must engage business, grow finance
… gap We must urgently scale up public finance for biodiversity conservation. The 2019 spend on biodiversity was between $124 billion …
Insight, 11 May 2021
Peter DeMarsh, who died in the Ethiopian Airways crash on 10 March 2019 (Photo: Teresa Sarroca)
IIED remembers Peter DeMarsh
… Controlled Forestry’ between financiers and indigenous people, community foresters and family forest smallholders run by The Forest … his constituency, he found common cause with indigenous and community forest rights-holders, and founded what was provocatively … as simple questions: If I plant tree x (for food, fuel, fibre, conservation, and so on), will I have the right to sell it? (ie secure …
News, 14 March 2019
Forests image
New roadmap for boosting small-scale and family forest producers
… Environment and Development (IIED) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)   –  argue that a better policy … Macqueen, principal researcher of IIED. "As a group, smallholders and community and Indigenous Peoples forest producers play a major role in …
News, 30 June 2014
A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference
… analysed thousands of studies on forest restoration and found that community forestry and agroforestry are where win-wins for poor people … those managing protected areas. Many speakers, including those from Conservation International, highlighted the tricky business of fighting …
Insight, 22 October 2018
The front cover of IIED's 2016/17 annual report (Image: IIED)
IIED's 2016/17 annual report highlights the institute's impact
News, 17 October 2017