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The new OpenLandContracts.org database will contain the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
New online database of investment contracts hailed as a "game changer"
… available investment contracts for large-scale land, agriculture, and forestry projects from around the world. It will allow users to download …
News, 06 October 2015
Cover for G03391.pdf
Editorial: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65)
… (FPIC) processes, in which communities decide whether or not to allow projects affecting their land or resources to go ahead, and on what … confronting threats from mining and protected areas; and improving forestry partnerships. It also looks at government experiences of …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Logging truck in Cameroon. Credit: World Resources Institute (Creative Commons)
What’s missing from private-sector REDD+?
Insight, 29 January 2014
Cover for 9136IIED.pdf
Laying the Foundations for Clean Development: Preparing the Land-Use Sector. A quick guide to the Clean Development Mechanism
… This booklet provides information to forestry and land use audiences, principally in developing countries, …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Cover for 16529IIED.pdf
Dispute or Dialogue? Community perspectives on company-led grievance mechanisms
… impact of company–community grievance mechanisms in the oil and gas, forestry, and mining sectors. Following the work of the UN Special …
Publication, 01 March 2013
Cover for 7533IIED.pdf
Changing Perspectives on Forest Policy: Pakistan country study
… up in Pakistan, principally through experience with participatory forestry projects and conservation strategies, reinforcing a trend away from …
Publication, 01 January 1998
A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… adding to costs. Emerging research on smallholder agroforestry projects shows that we can minimise 'intermediary' costs, and in doing … the Plan Vivo Foundation have been collaborating with agroforestry projects in Uganda ( Trees for Global Benefits ) and Mexico ( Scolel Té … as is necessary. Dr Amy Duchelle from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) also talked about the need for cost effective …
Insight, 07 January 2016
Experts available at Financing for Development conference
News, 13 July 2015
Cover for 9559IIED.pdf
Small-scale timber production in South Africa: what role in reducing poverty?
… Forestry plays a diverse and significant role in reducing poverty in … broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE), government financed projects with technical facilitation, and non-aligned entrepreneurs - to …
Publication, 01 June 2005
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 …
Insight, 29 July 2015