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Revisiting Collaborative Forest Management in Kyrgyzstan: What happened to bottomup decision-making?
… has collaborated with the Kyrgyz government in developing its forestry sector. The Kyrgyz-Swiss Forestry Support Programme (KIRFOR) covered a wide range of activities, … generally well maintained, although it has not been possible to bring about major innovations in sustainable forest management. …
Publication, 01 December 2010
A parrot looking out of a cardboard box in a shopping bag
IIED calls for more attention on effective community engagement in tackling illegal wildlife trade
… of the potential reasons for this imbalance is a lack of knowledge about how to engage local communities and which approaches work best. … for Conservation Science;  Andrew Tobiason , conservation advisor, Forestry and Biodiversity Office, USAID; Dr Dilys Roe , principal …
News, 15 August 2019
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PLA Notes 41: General Issue
… predation in villages around Waza National Park in Cameroon. A paper about the challenges faced by a multidisciplinary PLA programme on the … The Tips for Trainers section features extracts from the IIED Forestry and Land Use Programme's book 'Forestry tactics: Lessons from Malawi's National Forestry Programme'. …
Publication, 01 June 2001
Lumbering illegality: how to make timber sustainable and pro-poor
… the use of both trade and climate strategies in unison to bring about locally controlled forestry. A recent report launched by Chatham House states that illegal … is the entry point, governance reforms toward pro-poor sustainable forestry is embedded in the subtext. FLEGT has also sponsored patient …
Insight, 26 January 2011
Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
The Musketeers of development
… How about we apply the mantra of "All for one and one for all" as we ride … they must be looked at as a whole, no matter what our field.  Take forestry. Gazing across the diverse 17 goals and 146 targets now on the table, we began mapping a 'module' of relevant areas for forestry . We are building a picture of how much forests impact on …
Insight, 16 July 2014
Maria Lourdes Alvarez is a warden monitoring fishing activity at Decalve Marine Sanctuary, a Marine Protected Area in the Calamianes Islands in the Philippines (Photo: Asuncion Sia/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Gender and biodiversity conservation – progress and future directions
…  has been leading our gender ambition, helping staff to think about how we can become gender transformative in our work. We see gender … of view. Where speakers identified progress, we asked them to think about the factors that had supported change, and those that had placed … North Conservancy in Kenya and the three generations of Community Forestry in Nepal. For each case study, he reflected on the extent to …
Insight, 29 November 2018
A man transports logs by bicycle. Services provided by informal economies, such as small-scale logging, are often not integrated into plans for green growth (Photo: Jolien Schure/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Informal economy and green growth conference pinpoints need for new policy agenda
… economies in diverse contexts – from food distribution and mining to forestry and waste collection – and featured speakers from the … and the Green Economy Coalition, WIEGO, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the OECD's Sahel and West Africa Club. … private sector: introduction with Oliver Greenfield Download audio About the organisers The conference was organised by  IIED , together …
News, 31 March 2016
Working with local journalists: a mutually beneficial partnership
Insight, 16 December 2011
Stakeholders inspect timber as part of the Eighth field dialogue on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) in Yogyakarta (Jogya), Central Java Province, Indonesia.
Needed: Local farmers and communities to plant trees in Indonesia
… rights to state-owned forests, referred to as locally-controlled forestry (LCF), could be key players in potentially tackling this issue … the political nature of tenure reform will take a long time to bring about – potentially decades. To bridge the industrial supply gap, … group or cooperative rights, under a regime known as Community Forestry (Hutan Kemasyaratan, HKm), cooperative and individual rights in …
Insight, 22 February 2012
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Forest Governance Learning Group - Update April 2007
… learning event on making the law work better for social justice in forestry, involving all the country teams and other international … on legal timber between EC and Ghana, developing influential small forestry enterprise development strategy in South Africa, and re-orienting the debate about charcoal production in Malawi away from ineffective and regressive …
Publication, 01 April 2007