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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
… genetic diversity for agriculture, and green jobs in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, and ecotourism. "Biodiversity and poverty …
News, 05 October 2012
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… about the institute and read stories about some of our programmes and projects. To reach the widest possible audience we have ensured that the … wa Wanavijiji , Kenya Ghana Homeless People Federation , Ghana Kenya Forestry Research Institute , Kenya RuralNet Associates, Zambia … Policy (CCAP) , China Lok Chetna Manch , India Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Global Environmental Institute , China Bangladesh …
News, 11 November 2014
Cover for 14618IIED.pdf
PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… (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
Cover for G00411.pdf
Overview of global trends in FSC certificates
… IIED under its project "Instruments for Sustainable Private Sector Forestry". It is a purely factual summary of information and at this …
Publication, 01 May 1999
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
… solely on women rather than gender. It is necessary to have women’s projects, given women’s disadvantages, but on their own they are … 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
Sign on community property near Kampala, Uganda (Photo: Rachael Knight/Namati)
Using the law for resource justice
… to challenge irresponsible and exploitative resource development projects. A new initiative, Lawyers for Resource Justice, launched in … to prevent or remedy damages from large-scale resource development projects. Support ranges from providing legal training, to proactively … programme that helps communities address the impacts of mining, forestry, and agribusiness. SDI asked ISLP for guidance and legal …
Insight, 28 April 2015
A tree crashes to the ground in a forest after being felled by a man with a chainsaw
South-South REDD: A Brazil-Mozambique Initiative
… initiative to strengthen partnerships towards locally controlled forestry. Project objectives The main purpose of the project was to … the strengthening of institutional capacity and pilot demonstration projects Discussion about how to implement policies and measures …
Project, 16 December 2009
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
Insight, 06 March 2019
Mr Yi, the manager of the processing facility, instructs some of the Mozambican workforce of Mr Forest Ltd (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
A Chinese passion: adding value to Mozambique's timber exports
… value-adding investors from the routine cut-and-run of Mozambican forestry. Instead, along with all other Chinese, they face a drip-drip … support CAFGoP, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Mozambican NGO Terra Firma is tackling this. It has …
Insight, 10 April 2017
Business models for sustainable development
… sustainable development cuts across several areas of IIED’s research: Forestry Small-scale forestry was for years half-lost in the shadow of industrial logging. … viable community forestry Food and agriculture Two major IIED projects in the food and agriculture sector relate to business models …
Article, 10 May 2010