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Smallholder forest-farm in Myanmar
Fairer by Far: Multi-functional mosaics for public goods
… As noted in a recent paper , there are two broad schools of thought about this. The first school, 'monotypic masses', considers the key … Fortunately, much recent understanding has developed on how to go about ‘Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry’ , including a synthesis review of an 11 dialogue process on …
Insight, 23 August 2013
Cover for 7551IIED.pdf
Foreign Portfolio Investment and Sustainable Development: A study of the forest products sector in emerging markets.
… to the South over the last decade has stimulated an intense debate about the impacts on the development process. Whilst there is particular concern about the negative social and environmental consequences of foreign investment in resource-based sectors such as forestry, the potential contribution that private capital flows could …
Publication, 01 January 1998
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… for a project that is funded by DFID through IIED ,” adds Maggie about Mlumbe, who is demonstrating how socio-legal empowerment can … has been at the forefront globally of gender equality in forestry by deciding from the start that representation at each level … if imposed across the country, it would mean the ‘death to community forestry’. "The same year FECOFUN finalised its gender equality and …
Article, 15 June 2020
An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… defers to the Agrarian Law of 1963. Download an article Yudha wrote about his experiences. Mina discussed the work  of the Indonesia … peoples. As part of this process, AMAN challenged Article 1(6) of the Forestry Law No. 41 of 1999 which, the Constitutional Court held, … shared during the webinar showed that it is important to be strategic about selecting the piece of legislation to challenge. This often relies …
Insight, 25 March 2014
The author with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Farmers on average receive 3 per cent of a chocolate bar price and many are dependent on a single commodity for their livelihoods (Photo: Marisa Camargo)
Zero deforestation supply chains: promoting sustainable chocolate
Insight, 16 September 2015
Delivering REDD+: can past lessons help in tempering optimism and making headway?
… the world. So why the low success rate? And what can this tell us about the best way forward for REDD+. Undoubtedly there has been … Mozambique for example, the government approved progressive land and forestry laws in the late 1990s that acknowledge customary rights and … and with organisation comes economic opportunity. Locally controlled forestry is paramount to delivering REDD+ benefits globally as well as …
Insight, 09 May 2011
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Forest Governance Learning Group - Malawi, Improving Forest Governance - Improving Rural Livelihoods
… following objectives: • To identify, speed-up, and spread learning about workable approaches to good forest governance • To make measurable … enable improved forest governance • Output 2: Illegal and corrupt forestry practices that degrade livelihoods are reduced through the …
Publication, 01 August 2005
Good governance key to success of payments to tackle deforestation and climate change
News, 05 June 2009
Plans to protect forests could do more harm than good unless power is in local hands
… teams in ten nations in Africa and Asia to promote decision making about forests that is fair and sustainable. It highlights success … benefits for communities, biodiversity and the climate. "REDD remains forestry’s best hope yet but it must be built from the bottom up," says …
News, 24 August 2011
Close-up of a shovel, on which dirt is balanced, during a tree-planting ceremony, with a plaque in the background
Trees need locally-grown politics
… I was once part of a team supporting the National Forestry Programme in Malawi and on annual tree-planting day I was asked … at a speed that locally-built integrated projects can only dream about. But these campaigns are fragile precisely because they rely on …
Insight, 04 June 2021