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Cover for G00335.pdf
Distinguishing community forest products in the market .
… consumers to better recognise community forest products. Community forestry has rarely been an economic success story until now. The … financial constraints. These ToRs explore solutions to make community forestry economically viable. They aim to demonstrate demand (or the … products for discerning consumers in the North, thus allowing trade partners to seek identified and selected markets for these products. …
Publication, 01 January 2006
Cover for G00323.pdf
Forest Governance Learning Group - Project Document June 2003
… and develop ideas on forest governance and to help make them work. Forestry can contribute to the eradication of poverty and environmental … and install the policy and institutional systems which spread local forestry success. Whilst there is much attention being given to a few … governance learning group - an alliance of independent agencies and partners in Sub-Saharan Africa - aims to help fill this gap. The group …
Publication, 01 June 2003
Head and shoulders images
Remembering Nigel Cross and Brian Walker, leading lights of IIED
… to Nairobi, so that the institute could listen to personalities and partners in different parts of the world and discuss with them in depth … of international fellowships to recognise pathbreaking work by IIED’s partners, and offer time and space to develop their ideas. When I took … world class research programmes on human settlements, energy, forestry and environmental economics.    A former director general of …
Insight, 16 October 2019
Knowledge gained from interviews carried out in Kenya by Chinese journalists will be presented to a meeting in Beijing (Photo: Angelo DeSantis via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Chinese journalists study growing links between China and Africa
… The stories will cover topics such as urbanisation in Africa, forestry and livelihoods, wildlife and eco-tourism as well as the …
News, 18 March 2014
Community representatives gather together to record their knowledge about dryland resources as part of a participatory mapping process in Isiolo County, Kenya. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Strengthening civil society to support natural resource management
… in Namibia and Kenya , to the design of sustainable community forestry models in Tanzania, and to a wide range of land and forest … structure, and investment Change the way funders and international partners deliver organisational support to a more long-term, customised, …
Insight, 29 July 2015
Markets for environmental services case studies
… services and improved livelihoods IIED's environmental economics and forestry and land use programmes worked together on this DFID-sponsored … set of services. The work involved collaborative research with partners in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Philippines to assess … another IIED project, Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry, funded by the UK's Department for International Development …
Project, 08 May 2008
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
… to benefit the poor. What we are doing Much of the work by IIED and partners focuses on markets and sectors with high levels of informality … the Green Economy Coalition, WIEGO, the Center for International Forestry Research and OECD's Sahel and West Africa Club organising an … In Africa, we are carrying out field-based research together with partners in order to understand the value chains that operate in the …
Project, 20 January 2016
The community owners of a furniture factory pose for a photo
Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
… forest enterprises in total. Why Mexico is backing community forestry – and how community groups are ‘Scaling up locally controlled … Resources Initiative (RRI) and IIED – together with its co-management partners of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) . But what’s the big … several businesses that have budded off from the Communal Unit for Forestry, Agriculture and Services (UCFAS) enterprise (PDF) , …
Insight, 10 September 2018
Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests
… Regulation that encourages Chinese companies and their Mozambican partners to invest in high value processing within Mozambique and better … operating practices, adopted Chinese government guidelines on good forestry, and supports associated community engagement to market …
Insight, 14 August 2018
Women sit next to piles of vegetables like onions, tomatoes, garlic.
Five pathways to deliver rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs
… and micro enterprises, particularly those in the agriculture and forestry sectors, to emerge from the pandemic and increase their … linking mobile payment systems and working closely with development partners for identification and registration. While the payment …
Insight, 30 September 2021