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Business models for sustainable development
… Increasingly, the private sector is recognising an emerging business opportunity in designing or modifying business models … Power to the Poor: Sustainable energy at the base of the pyramid Fair Ideas session - Business models for sustainability  Donor Committee on … Business models for sustainable development …
Article, 10 May 2010
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
… The seminar, part of IIED's Critical Theme series that explores new ideas, highlights research and profiles the work of partners, was led … co-leader of  IIED's forest team ,  Duncan Macqueen . He discussed business models that can successfully serve local control, highlighting … to improve forest livelihoods and ensure forests are managed in a fair and sustainable way.He is an expert on locally controlled forest …
Event, 07 July 2015
Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy
… Goals recognise that energy access is crucial for giving everyone a fair chance at living a healthy, decent and dignified life. And … results in the sectors mentioned above: exploring the finance and business models that can bring electricity service businesses into … at identifying possible solutions. Groups self-organised around ideas for prototypes – small-scale interventions that have the potential …
Insight, 21 September 2017
A community forest in Ethiopia.Credit: Growing Forest Partnerships
Local control of forests brings economic, environmental and social gains
… The book, to be launched at IIED’s Fair ideas conference in Rio de Janeiro on 17 June , makes the business case for investing in forest communities by showing that when …
News, 13 June 2012
Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?
… (22 June) suggests that the first step in assessing how ‘pro-poor’ business contributes to development and smallholder empowerment, is to … where a business with a profit motive includes poor farmers in a fair way. “Not all relationships between businesses and producers are … not only the Netherlands that is to blame. “Over the past two years, models for support and cooperation have changed and they are supporting …
Article, 27 June 2011
Image of Namibian drylands with a stone hill rising in the background.
3-point action plan for leaders at Rio+20 summit
… energy supplies, new approaches to urban density, inclusive business models, and greater accountability in global institutions are … achievable and effective ways to reshape our future and create a fair, greener and more secure world ." IIED will present the paper at Fair Ideas, a two-day conference it is hosting in Rio on 16-17 June ( see the …
News, 22 May 2012
A church under construction sits on a verdant green field with dark grey storm clouds behind.
Rio+20: Key recommendations from IIED conference
… Nearly 1000 people came to the Fair Ideas conference to debate topics in four broad themes: business models for sustainability, urbanisation that improves lives, …
News, 20 June 2012
Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment of Brazil, taken during the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011.
Influencing the outcomes at Rio+20
… government representatives and environmentalists together at our Fair Ideas conference in the run up to Rio+20 so that we can have maximum … answers to their troubles. Unfortunately, most are trapped in mental models which do not allow for looking outside the box. Meanwhile, the …
Insight, 24 May 2012
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
Forest farmer representatives from eight Southeast Asian countries exchange experiences with one of the branches of Tree Bank Foundation in Central Thailand (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
In the king's wake
… monarch, died in October 2016 . Among the many things for which he was adored by his people was commitment to a ' … the multi-purpose benefits of forests – fruit, timber and firewood for daily use – for which he thought it "essential to grow different … critical for lobbying government for secure tenure, for negotiating fair prices in markets, or restoring forest landscapes at scale. They …
Insight, 20 December 2016