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The author with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Farmers on average receive 3 per cent of a chocolate bar price and many are dependent on a single commodity for their livelihoods (Photo: Marisa Camargo)
Zero deforestation supply chains: promoting sustainable chocolate
… Organization (FAO) of the United Nations organised the XIV World Forestry Congress. It was a week of productive discussions on the …
Insight, 16 September 2015
Cover for 6081IIED.pdf
RRA Notes 12: General Issue
… can play in group and team dynamics. A brief note questioning whether projects and interventions are paternalistic or empowering. A guide to … surveys in collecting socio-ecological information for social forestry projects. A paper suggesting new ways of diagrammatically representing …
Publication, 01 July 1991
Women living in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve are trained to sustainably harvest xate palms, providing them with income and preserving the reserve's biodiversity (Photo: Dani Newcomb/USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The role, influence and impact of women in biodiversity conservation
… resource management sectors – notably agriculture, fisheries, and forestry – in both developing and developed countries. Furthermore, … our attention and resources to the local level, to ensure that projects and programmes are implemented in ways that address gender …
Insight, 09 October 2018
Cover for G01503.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 20 Applying PRA methods to participatory monitoring and evaluation: report on a course held in El Obeid, Sudan
… with staff The course took place over two weeks in in various forest projects. In some of the Kordofan. Field work was conducted in projects visited there was a lack of villages with varying involvement … which were course could be an opportunity to explore involved in forestry activities. some of the issues around PM&E ... …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Green economics – surviving the trial
… in Kiboga and Mubende districts of Uganda by the Ugandan National Forestry Authority to make way for a New Forests Company (NFC) … The Forest Sterwardship Council (FSC) — the global gold standard for forestry best practice — certified the two NFC plantations despite … activities that can fly the green flag currently includes development projects with major negative social impacts. Such cases risk leaving …
Insight, 17 November 2011
Report backs novel approach to improving forest governance
… have enabled practical actions for locally beneficial community forestry • Several investments in logging deals that were …
News, 17 August 2009
Cover for G01394.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 4 Rapid appraisal for women in the North West frontier of Pakistan
… to serve as an entry- point for the Programme. The Malakand Social Forestry Project (MSFP) is a project of the Forest Department of the The …
Publication, 01 January 1988
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… all family-based agricultural activities (including agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production) that are … control and resilience into agricultural and food systems to our projects that support locally-controlled forest enterprises, we …
Article, 22 April 2014
Althelia Ecosphere's Simon Dent speaking at Fish Night 2 (Photo: Inta Photography)
Fish Night 2 looks at finance for sustainable fisheries
… well as a financial returns. Althelia Ecosphere currently invests in projects that reduce deforestation, mitigate climate change, protect … what we can with the impact-investment model that we have learned in forestry and bring it to what we call sea-scapes. We believe that we can …
Event, 04 March 2015
Cover for 6131IIED.pdf
PLA Notes 31: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
… A paper on monitoring and evaluating in a Nepal-UK community forestry project.  A paper on the process and findings of a …
Publication, 01 February 1998