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Coming in for lunch in the rice fields near Inle Lake, Myanmar. Online databases can provide verified data on land conflicts and help resolve disputes and improve governance (Eric Brochu, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Using online technology to empower communities facing land deals
… free access to publicly available large-scale land, agriculture and forestry contracts.  The team behind OLC is highlighting to governments … greater transparency around land contracts, including highlighting links to other global databases such as Land Matrix or Open Corporates …
Insight, 04 August 2016
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
… 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
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Foreign Portfolio Investment and Sustainable Development: A study of the forest products sector in emerging markets.
… consequences of foreign investment in resource-based sectors such as forestry, the potential contribution that private capital flows could … to the forest products sector in Malaysia, discussing whether any links can be made between such flows and environmental and social …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)
Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
… form of property under Belizean law. Promoting locally-controlled forestry The government also published a new forest policy in 2015 … private farm land. What is clear is that the era in which commercial forestry in Belize was exclusively the preserve of large-scale forest …
Insight, 08 February 2016
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
Insight, 15 December 2016
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… (Peru), the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Kenya Forestry Research Institute and the Indian NGO Lok Chetna Manch . … of such traditional ecological and social values, and strengthened links between different villages and capacity for collective action to …
Project, 29 April 2019
People walking down a flooded road
D&C Days 2019: five themes for climate resilience for all
Article, 22 November 2019
Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase
… often uncoordinated, investments in agriculture, mining, petroleum, forestry and infrastructure projects. In such geographic hotspots as …
Insight, 28 March 2018
Global forest plan could boost fight against poverty and climate change
News, 09 July 2008
Forest Connect: championing local forest enterprises
… Ethiopia to learn from the country’s experience in locally controlled forestry and reaffirm our vision that poverty reduction and forest … . Ethiopia’s experience Ethiopia is turning to locally controlled forestry under the banner of Participatory Forest Management (PFM). As …
Insight, 24 February 2011