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Community Integrated Pest Management in Indonesia: Institutionalising participation and people centred approaches
… impacts of the Green Revolution. As a result, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Indonesian Government developed a …
Publication, 01 January 2003
Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)
Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation
… REDD+ projects seemed to be concentrated in areas where small-scale agriculture and biomass energy production were the main threats to the … Even though some of us might disagree, cocoa is a cash crop, not a food crop. Many cocoa farmers may have never even tested chocolate. The … can be important in giving farmers the purchasing power to acquire food and meet other needs. Cocoa farming creates high demand for land. …
Insight, 05 December 2014
A father and son record measurements from a rain gauge on their farm in Western Uganda. Changes in rainfall patterns could significantly impact rural populations (Photo: J. Recha/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We need long term actions on climate change
Article, 24 November 2015
Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
The Musketeers of development
… opportunity and market access?   We need coherence in our approach to food systems and growth through trade and business − and important as … sustainable development outcomes that can't necessarily be separated: food, energy, water, health and climate change. By securing water supply and soil quality, they are an integral part of sustainable agriculture. Want to ensure a supply of freshwater? Restoration of …
Insight, 16 July 2014
REDD: Protecting climate, forests and livelihoods
Article, 14 May 2009
A herd of elephants (Photo: Sean Habig, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Biodiversity loss – more than an environmental emergency
… groups of species, or ecosystems carry out (such as sources of food, absorbers of air pollution, and natural barriers against storm …
Insight, 25 July 2019
Oscar Simanto, one of the founders of the African Forest Enterprises Connect Network (AFECONET), connect forest and farm producers across Africa (Image: IIED)
New network aims to connect locally controlled forest enterprises across Africa
… and the Forest Farm Facility (FFF) ,& hosted by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization , it manages the Forest Connect alliance, a …
News, 26 October 2015
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… enterprises delivers local public goods (such as sustainable food, energy, water and construction materials) alongside global public … Its management team involves a partnership of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) , The International Union for the …
Insight, 24 March 2014
Trees at Oxford Botanical Gardens. The question is not how to engage young people in forestry issues, but how to harness that engagement (Photo: Geraldine Warren/IIED)
Nurturing the next generation of foresters
… to some of the biggest threats facing our planet – climate change, food insecurity, economic and social inequality. Forests really can be … 94 countries. The project is co-managed by IIED, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , and the Center for People and Forests …
Insight, 24 August 2015
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Current Land Use in Vietnam. Proceedings of the Second Land Use Seminar, Bac Thai, Vietnam. September 1994
Publication, 01 January 1995