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Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… working that help IIED to deliver lasting change. Our  annual report for 2017/18  looks at how IIED uses these four impact pathways to build a fairer and more sustainable future. Impact pathway 1: Multi-stakeholder dialogues IIED's … processing facilities. We are also using dialogues to drive community forestry: working with communities across the Congo Basin, the IIED-led …
Page, 24 October 2018
Elephant yams growing on a forested slope in Myanmar.
Myanmar: Could an unusual yam help the march of community forestry?
… the state or transferred to distant investors. By contrast “community forestry” secures a formally recognised 30 year land lease arrangement for which Chin communities can apply to secure their heritage. But while … the requirement that such businesses create local incentives for sustainable forest management – as is happening with the Elephant Foot …
Insight, 17 May 2013
Reforestation program in Guatemala (Photo: Enrique Varahona)
Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
… Organised local forest and farm producers are at the core of a sustainable future. The sheer numbers of local smallholders, communities … between such producers and their enterprises has tremendous potential for scaling up: policy influence (to secure commercial forest rights); … it. Phase I used a framework known as investing in locally controlled forestry that recognises four essential enabling investments are …
Project, 29 May 2014
A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
… IDA indicators should reflect recent global agreements – Financing for Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on climate … volume of production per labour unit by classes of, among others, forestry enterprise size (SDG 2.3.1).   Food and agriculture: the … Making World Bank aid sustainable …
Insight, 10 October 2016
The Dolakha FSC-certified community forest user group speaking at the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013 (Photo: Leianne Rolington/IIED)
Focusing support for locally controlled forest enterprise
… is working to reduce poverty and deforestation by better linking sustainable, locally-controlled forest enterprises to each other, … evaluated which to prioritise and learned from each other's methods. For example, the Nepalese analysis leaned towards technical issues such … and prioritising the fundamentals of viable pro-poor community forestry business models. - Martin Greijmans, Enhanced Livelihoods & …
Article, 14 March 2014
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… Congress  helps to shape the direction of conservation and sustainable development. The theme of the IUCN Congress 2016 was 'Planet … The World Conservation Congress was instrumental in defining the path for moving those agreements into action. Congress objectives The … of protected areas, food demand and forests, and locally controlled forestry. IIED and partner events Making ecosystem-based adaptation …
Event, 01 September 2016
Global forest plan could boost fight against poverty and climate change
… An emerging initiative could pave the way for fundamental change in the way forests are managed, boosting efforts … local needs on an equitable basis with the rapidly changing global forestry agenda. IIED also reviewed more than 50 existing initiatives to … where the underlying causes of forest problems – and the seeds of sustainable solutions – are often lodged. "Without these building …
News, 09 July 2008
Report urges forestry industry to tackle conflict with local people
… environmental, academic and human rights groups. The report, written for TFD by the International Institute for Environment and Development … the development of broadly applicable means of resolving conflicts. "Sustainable companies invest for the long term, so they have a broader … says TFD co-leader James Griffiths, who heads the sustainable forestry programme at the World Business Council for Sustainable …
News, 08 July 2009
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… IIED’s Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR) project examined traditional knowledge-based – or … Chinese Agricultural Policy, China; Lok Chetna Manch, India; Kenya Forestry Research Institute; and ANDES Peru – to learn how communities … in sustaining traditional knowledge and agrobiodiversity that support sustainable agricultural practices and innovations. In many cases, these …
Article, 18 October 2018
Justice in the forests: a series of short films
… in tackling forest governance. They collectively make the case that for long-term sustainability it is necessary to put social justice … – and that in practice, this means investing in locally controlled forestry. Tackling forest governance: how small groups can have a big … brought government together with charcoal producers in search of more sustainable and pro-poor policy solutions. …
Article, 15 April 2011