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Fadzilah Majid-Cooke
Q&A with Fadzilah Majid-Cooke: land rights and agricultural investments in Southeast Asia
… of Malaysia). She has worked in the area of agricultural and forestry politics and development as well as in environmental change and … IIED researcher Emily Polack spoke to Fadzilah Majid-Cooke about her impressions from the meetings. Would you say there were more … politics. Q: In the forum you raised an interesting question about needing to generate alternative visions of ‘modernity’ and how, …
Article, 18 March 2013
Cover for 6131IIED.pdf
PLA Notes 31: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
… A paper on monitoring and evaluating in a Nepal-UK community forestry project.  A paper on the process and findings of a … issues for monitoring local development in Ecuador
 A paper about how the Palestinian NGO Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees …
Publication, 01 February 1998
The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Star spice in Vietnam's forests
… training, which encourages forest farmers to make their own decisions about which business to develop and how. Star anise is the fruit of a … An early target for presenting lessons from this work is the World Forestry Congress to be held in Durban in September. FFF hopes to see …
Insight, 05 August 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 10 In coastal resources planning: Malampaya Sound, The Philippines
… RRA has been extensively Field activities applied in agriculture and forestry but its application in coastal zone planning and management is … to generate appraise the seven villages. The following information about problems and opportunities, routine was more or less followed for …
Publication, 01 January 1995
RRA Notes 13: Proceedings of the February 1991 Bangalore PRA Trainers Workshop
… workshop on PRA conducted by the NGO SPEECH in Tamil Nadu. An article about a five day training in PRA for officers on a Government watershed … brief report on a wealth ranking exercise in Mahilong, Bihar. A paper about the lessons learned by the Hope International Development Agency (HIDA) Social Forestry Program in Andrah Pradesh. A report on participatory impact …
Publication, 01 August 1991
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
Insight, 06 March 2019
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… all family-based agricultural activities (including agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production) that are … to those who matter , Duncan Macqueen (2014) Spreading the word about the no-till agricultural revolution , Laura Silici (2014) …
Article, 22 April 2014
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, during an intense rainy season.
What does low-carbon resilience look like in Latin America?
… and Forest Degradation (REDD) and Land Use, Land Use Change and  Forestry (LULUCF) , which are being utilised across the continent. … concerns, such as deforestation, as well as international concerns about greenhouse gas emissions. Forestry seems to be one sector where a low-carbon strategy may chime …
Insight, 04 April 2013
The Bandiagara plateau in Central Mali has been hit by repeated droughts. Climate change is making the weather unpredictable, resulting in poor harvests and increased malnutrition (Photo: Irina Mosel/ODI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Mali is extremely vulnerable and unable to combat climate change impacts
Article, 24 November 2015
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 1 Confessions of a reconstructed planner
… and almost exclusively for agriculture. It does not consulted about the plan so that in the involve forestry, wildlife, water use, urban early stages they can help with the …
Publication, 01 January 1988