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First international gathering of forest producer organisations underway
… IUCN, RECOFTC and Tropenbos International,. It is hosted by the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of the People’s Republic of China. It is … Carlowitz: recent evidence points to family, community and indigenous forestry as the most effective strategy for long term forest … give them better access to markets, a stronger bargaining position, links to extension services or other support platforms and a voice in …
News, 25 November 2013
Group of participants stand for a picture during the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013.
Forest Connect
… substantial prior IIED body of work to assess both locally controlled forestry enterprises, and then their associations in Brazil, China, … studies. In each country, we tried to ensure that locally-controlled forestry was recognised and supported in key policies concerning … practical enterprise support work providing resources, services, and links between enterprises, markets, services, investors and …
Project, 12 September 2013
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… of protected areas, food demand and forests, and locally controlled forestry. IIED and partner events Making ecosystem-based adaptation … event launched a book describing eight locally controlled forestry enterprises' approach to risk management in Africa, Asia and … context, using specific tactics and strategies. Locally controlled forestry enterprises (LCFE) and their associations offer particular …
Event, 01 September 2016
Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
News, 31 August 2020
Forests, resilience and climate change
… institutions to make a realistic assessment of current and future links between climate change, forest resilience and forest-based … livelihoods, and this led to an informal international network on forestry issues within climate change being established. The mapping of …
Project, 11 June 2008
MECEBURI FOREST RESERVE, MOZAMBIQUE, May 2010: Farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi at work in his maize field
New tool to help join-up policies to cut poverty and conserve biodiversity
News, 05 October 2012
Cover for 8128IIED.pdf
Valuation and Evaluation of Management Alternatives for the Pagbilao Mangrove Forest
Publication, 01 January 1996
Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
The informal economy and sustainable development
… the Green Economy Coalition, WIEGO, the Center for International Forestry Research and OECD's Sahel and West Africa Club organising an …
Project, 20 January 2016
Cover for 7511IIED.pdf
Local Institutions and Adaptive Forest Management in Ghana
… and traditional authority which are linked to forest use; district Forestry Department activities; concession-holders and other timber …
Publication, 01 January 1996
The post-2015 development agenda must recognise that the fates of forests and people are entwined. Credit: Duncan Macqueen
Saving the forests for last – in the hope, at last, of saving the forests
… of forests very much depends on investing in locally controlled forestry. Alternative approaches that strip away local control are a … and forest loss. The SDGs, however they are framed, need to make the links between forests, biodiversity, governance, equity and avoiding … than the goals they serve  –  that will be decisive in making the links described above. For that reason, whatever emerges in the Open …
Insight, 31 January 2014