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Rwanda has made significant commitments on restoration. Kigali, surrounded by green hills, was a particularly fitting venue for the African Forest Landscape Investment Forum (Photo: atulinda Images, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
… and companies showcased profitable outcomes including: Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative , community timber production, Tanzania  Inyenyeri, biomass pellets and …
Insight, 08 June 2017
Investing in smallholders and workers is good for business
… be part of the solution?” Those of us who work in the development community must be ready to help them find the answers. The discussion is …
Article, 21 June 2011
Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table
Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh
… about economic development, poverty alleviation, food security, conservation or environmental sustainability. An explicit understanding …
Project, 29 June 2015
Representatives of Indonesia communities discussed ways to improve urban conditions at the third Urban Social Forum (Photo: Fabrizio Salvatori)
Indonesian civil society discusses its urban future
… in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city. More than 1,000 community leaders, civil society activists, academics, students, and … on different issues and in different places can create a sense of community. What cities do we want? The slogan of the Urban Social Forum …
Insight, 21 January 2016
People undertaking workshop activities
Twitter, visas and communication strategies
… June 27, 2019 An evening walk on Hampstead Heath hearing about its conservation strategy ended with a hearty picnic; the next evening found …
Insight, 04 July 2019
Two rice terraces with a small forest growing between them in Nepal.
Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
… due to the sustainable management of forest resources promoted by Community Forestry schemes. Since the mid-1970s Community forestry has enjoyed a high profile success, improving local … Nepal’s Government while 32% is managed by communities. Over 18,000 Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs), (40% of the national population), …
Insight, 18 July 2013
Althelia Ecosphere's Simon Dent speaking at Fish Night 2 (Photo: Inta Photography)
Fish Night 2 looks at finance for sustainable fisheries
… saw the launch of Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation , a book edited by Essam Yassin Mohammed, senior researcher …
Event, 04 March 2015
Cover for G00437.pdf
107 7 Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Business
… biodiversity extends far beyond Governments. Every individual, local community, sector and organisation, whether private, public, national, … or deliberate waste and destruction.2 1. INTRODUCTION Biodiversity conservation has frequently been viewed in isolation from the need to … human health and environmental integrity become more apparent, conservation is becoming an increasingly complex affair, requiring input …
Publication, 01 January 1970
PLA 22 cover
PLA 22: General Issue
… of ACORD Mick Howes and Chris Roche Ranking constraints in a community  forestry and soil conservation Programme Kebede Asrat PRA for people and parks: the case … National Park, Ghana John Mason and Elijah Danso The use of RRA in conservation expeditions: experiences from Sierra Leone Sarah Pocknell …
Article, 01 February 1995
Cover for G01579.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 7 Identifying and tackling poverty: ActionAid's experiences in Vietnam
… surveys in which the key problems households identified by the community were falling agricultural production in the uplands and … service would promote soil widely used by many agencies working in conservation techniques. Agricultural activities Vietnam. AAV had …
Publication, 01 January 1995