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Women with their backs to the camera bind together bamboo panels and lean them against a wall
Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action
… this will support efforts toward systematic, sector-wide learning about and application of gender transformational change and climate … sectors, including coal transitions, energy, water, agriculture and forestry, adaptive social protection, sustainable transport, resilient …
Project, 09 May 2022
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Social justice in forests: gains made and tactics that work. A report from the Forest Governance Learning Group
… Forestry can strengthen communities’ livelihoods, contribute to poverty … at developing people, not just profit. However governing forests and forestry well demands good, interconnected decisions to be made by many people. But many people are often denied access to key decisions about forests, while others who have the access do not have the ideas or …
Publication, 01 September 2014
Two women standing in a forest.
Sisters are doing it for themselves in biodiverse Belize
… .  IIED’s work with farmer organisations has generated rich knowledge about diverse models of agroforestry: diverse subsistence farms that … advocates in Belize, including the departments of agriculture and forestry, agricultural training institutes such as Galen University and …
Insight, 18 March 2024
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Chinese investments and Africa’s small-scale producers: disruptions and opportunities
… trade and investments in Africa’s rural economy in the agriculture, forestry and mining sectors. Based on data collected from over 700 … Despite the cross-sector similarities, we tell a cautionary tale about development research or interventions focused solely on Chinese …
Publication, 01 June 2018
Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay
… timber sustainably, any economist will tell you that it's all about the right incentives. After under-pricing led to over-harvesting in the 1990s, Ghanaian regulations now require the Forestry Commission to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at … Also written into this legislation is a requirement for the Forestry Commission to update these stumpage fees quarterly. But as a …
Insight, 19 March 2015
Financing forest-related enterprises in ways that reduce both deforestation and poverty is critical to climate action and sustainable development (Photos: K Traumann/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Webinar: Strengthening the effectiveness of private sector engagement in addressing deforestation
… forest-related enterprises. Participants joined researchers, forestry experts, government, private sector and NGO representatives … be distributed before the webinar to all registered participants. About the speakers Gregory Watson, Inter-America Development Bank … Standards. Curan has deep sectoral knowledge in agriculture, forestry, and conservation having previously held positions working for …
Event, 11 April 2018
A mango tree frames views of a forest in Mozambique in the distance.
China in Africa’s forests
… up a large proportion of China’s forest product imports – currently about 4% with a value of US$1.3 billion, according to Chinese government … understanding is that there are only a small number of large Chinese forestry concessions and investments and these are confined to only a … Republic of Congo (DRC), there are no official Chinese-owned forestry concessions but an apparently increasing share of the 4 million …
Insight, 20 March 2013
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87 Case Study3 Using Analysis and Advocacy to Bring About Policy Change in Indonesia
Publication, 01 January 1970
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… and Biodiversity study). We have all recently become used to hearing about trillions of dollars being wiped off the world’s ‘virtual … opportunities which make the work of all who are trying to improve forestry more vital than ever before. Old problems are still with us – … opportunities to make vital moves towards locally controlled forestry, viable forest-based climate strategies and practical forest …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Justice in the Forests: six online films and webinar from IIED
… The central question that the films ask is: "Who gets to decide about forests?" With deforestation causing such havoc for biodiversity, … who grapple with this central question and believe that solutions to forestry problems lie in increasing the power of local people to make … – and that in practice, this means investing in locally controlled forestry. Join the head of IIED’s Natural Resources Group — James Mayers …
News, 19 April 2011