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Rwanda has made significant commitments on restoration. Kigali, surrounded by green hills, was a particularly fitting venue for the African Forest Landscape Investment Forum (Photo: atulinda Images, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
… wood-fuel producers, and bamboo and honey farmers.  In Kenya the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya now represents more …
Insight, 08 June 2017
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… that are driving their loss, including agriculture, mining and forestry, if the diversity of life is to survive. This article is …
Insight, 18 February 2020
Sign on community property near Kampala, Uganda (Photo: Rachael Knight/Namati)
Using the law for resource justice
… programme that helps communities address the impacts of mining, forestry, and agribusiness. SDI asked ISLP for guidance and legal …
Insight, 28 April 2015
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… in South Africa, and Climate resilient value chains in agriculture, forestry, energy and livestock that promote SME development and create links between households, governments and the private sector. But more …
Insight, 06 March 2019
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… has been at the forefront globally of gender equality in forestry by deciding from the start that representation at each level … if imposed across the country, it would mean the ‘death to community forestry’. "The same year FECOFUN finalised its gender equality and …
Article, 15 June 2020
Hippos bask in the sun in Botswana.
Botswana: Biodiversity and dragons come together
… alleviation. We are mapping the evidence base on biodiversity-poverty links to understand better which particular components or attributes of … “alternative livelihoods” projects with the Centre for International Forestry Research and the Zoological Society of London . Above all IIED … actively collects, synthesises and disseminates information on the links that exist between maintaining biodiversity and eliminating …
Insight, 22 May 2013
Cover for G00440.pdf
iii Contents Foreword. v Summary . vii Introduction . 1 Chapter 1: Meeting the MDGs - Is Conservation Relevant?
… into Big Business Annelisa Grigg . 107 Case Study 4: Small-medium Forestry Enterprises for Poverty Reduction and Sustainability . 127 …
Publication, 01 January 1970
PLA 41 cover
PLA 41: General Issue
Article, 31 May 2001
A traditional dance festival attracts tourists in Romania's Maramures Nature Park. The park was designed as a multifunctional protected landscape and was zoned to reflect both environmental priorities and economic needs of local people (Photo: Radu Pop/UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Equity, justice and ecosystem services: what do we mean?
… and evaluation and performance standards (e.g. the FSC standard in forestry). Another key point emerging from the equity workshop was that … development experience? , Maryanne Grieg-Gran Nepal's community forestry (CF) and lessons on equity , Nya Sharma Paudel, ForestAction, … College Rights, poverty, equity in conservation,  Dilys Roe, IIED Links between justice and wellbeing in protected area management in Laos …
Insight, 11 May 2015
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… strategic plan and the Aichi goals , with an emphasis on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism sectors. Governing bodies for the two …
Event, 04 December 2016