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A woman wearing a face mask and a visor stands behind a table of vegetables selling her produce.
COVID-19 and forest communities
… Locally-controlled forestry …
Project, 21 October 2021
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Organisation – how it ignites successful, locally controlled forestry business
… within a forthcoming ‘compendium of successful locally controlled forestry business models’ to provide some answers. It showcases business … Organisation – how it ignites successful, locally controlled forestry business …
Publication, 01 September 2015
The Green Economy Report – forestry chapter
… and environmental terms. What did IIED do? IIED produced the forestry chapter for this report. Background analysis was carried out … governance changes are needed to tip the balance towards sustainable forestry, which is not yet at scale, and away from unsustainable … further collaboration with UNEP, producing a more detailed report on forestry in African green economy. The role of forests in a green …
Project, 02 September 2010
Local forest workers in Cambodia, one of the regions studied for a new report (Photo: Frontier Cambodia Forest via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet
… four main ways new support could transform locally-controlled forestry businesses: •    Helping such businesses secure land and … is inadequate. It is crucial that investment in locally-controlled forestry increases so these enterprises can realise their potential." … to regulate the timber trade present to small-scale and community forestry. The meeting, organised by Chatham House and the Rights and …
News, 19 May 2014
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Options for sustainable community forestry business incubation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
… Options for sustainable community forestry business incubation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) …
Publication, 01 September 2019
The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
… the evidence IIED has teamed up with the  Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) , ICFI , The Nature Conservancy (TNC) , USAID … Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management? …
Insight, 02 July 2015
A man waters seedlings at a nursery at the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya managed by Wildlife Works Carbon.
Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry
… The advice on investment in locally-controlled forestry appears in a forthcoming guide by the Growing Forest … today (24 September) at COFO21, the conference of the Committee on Forestry at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations … developing countries. It shows how investing in locally-controlled forestry offers investors secure access, a 'social licence to operate', …
News, 24 September 2012
Elephant yams growing on a forested slope in Myanmar.
Myanmar: Could an unusual yam help the march of community forestry?
… the state or transferred to distant investors. By contrast “community forestry” secures a formally recognised 30 year land lease arrangement … crops such as trees? Unusual tuber could hold answers to community forestry A market led approach to community forestry – and an unusual tuber - might provide the answer. The tuber in …
Insight, 17 May 2013
Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)
Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
… for the Forest Connect alliance, which supports locally controlled forestry enterprises, to hold its fourth international workshop in … and the South about how programmes to organise locally controlled forestry had been implemented. They focused on 12 case studies of successful locally controlled forestry business models from around the world. Why local control? The …
Insight, 04 February 2015
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Roots of success: cultivating viable community forestry  
… Small forestry was for years half-lost in the shadow of industrial logging. … flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership and … Key Words: business models for sustainable development, enterprise, forestry, communities, value chain, new green economies …
Publication, 01 May 2009