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A sign near Kathmandu, Nepal, warns of the dangers of landslides (Photo: Doug Letterman, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up
Insight, 07 February 2014
Turn REDD on its head
… in the IIED-facilitated Forest Governance Learning Group. Argument about REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) … of REDD. We came to talk with the Madjajane and Goba communities about their forests and then continued to debate and plan our future … into REDD. REDD is far from being a lost cause — it remains forestry’s best chance ever. But it needs turning on its head if this …
Insight, 14 December 2010
People walking down a flooded road
D&C Days 2019: five themes for climate resilience for all
Article, 22 November 2019
Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase
… of land. Some people saw this as an opportunity. Others were worried about where they would grow their crops. And all struggled to understand … often uncoordinated, investments in agriculture, mining, petroleum, forestry and infrastructure projects. In such geographic hotspots as …
Insight, 28 March 2018
Miners pushing a cart out of a mine near the Bolivian town of Potosi. For centuries this area had the richest silver mines in South America. Today many of the mines are worked by local cooperatives, but conditions are still harsh (Photo Nyall & Maryanne, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector
… mining IIED engages with small-scale producers in agriculture, forestry, fishery and energy – building capacity to get their voice into … long-lasting solutions.   The sector also has huge potential to bring about transformative change for local and national development – … mining companies, NGOs and donors all have a role to play in bringing about this change, but they cannot act alone. Such change requires a …
Insight, 05 February 2015
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… involved in related activities downstream. In Indonesia, the informal forestry sector contributes around EUR € 63 million to local economies … for exchange If informal workers are to identify their needs, talk about them and engage governments to shape policies that address them, … micro-businesses that have been formalised in Brazil, success stories about integrating the informal economy begin with self-organisation. 4. …
Insight, 10 March 2016
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… examined how to strengthen women's participation in decision-making about land rights . The seminar highlighted the efforts of the Tanzania … living in informal settlments could provide important details about pressing problems.   The UN Statistical Commission report on SDG … lending and doing business that are being developed in the local forestry sector have the potential to create a more sustainable and just …
Article, 28 December 2016
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 2 Towards a meaningful evaluation for project staff and villagers
… Objective of paper We organised two workshops for staff to learn about participatory evaluation, self-evaluation In this paper we give a … community's to manage their resources, particularly in the forestry sector, by We wanted to involve villagers throughout the …
Publication, 01 January 1997
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 Process documentation research
… · inadequate time, practitioners rarely have time to write about or reflect on their Process documentation research (PDR) is a tool … implementation of a social enabled, as well as constrained, project forestry project by a leading NGO, the Aga implementation and assess …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Wangari Maathai: activist, environmentalist and mother to a movement
… for her environmental campaigning. But she also had no illusions about the common farmer, and recognized they also needed information, … approach, with local people trained to talk to their fellow villagers about the reasons for erosion and the drying up of water sources, and … , a network of teams in Africa and Asia who believe that solutions to forestry problems lie in increasing the power of local people to make …
Insight, 27 September 2011