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Coming in for lunch in the rice fields near Inle Lake, Myanmar. Online databases can provide verified data on land conflicts and help resolve disputes and improve governance (Eric Brochu, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Using online technology to empower communities facing land deals
… free access to publicly available large-scale land, agriculture and forestry contracts.  The team behind OLC is highlighting to governments … verified data on land conflicts in Myanmar associated with investment projects. ODM aims to shine a light on the details and scale of … whether contracts can be easily understood and to monitor various projects featured on the site. There is also a resources section for …
Insight, 04 August 2016
A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
… Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) , and implemented with Kenya Forestry Research Institute , Lok Chetna Manch (India) and the National …
Insight, 23 October 2020
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… Focusing only on major 'bankable’ natural capital investment projects can sound alarming to those working at the grassroots as it … and resources in natural capital, as in the case of Nepal's community forestry user groups.   Communities are not passive bystanders waiting … other.  Combining or 'aggregating' many smaller scale natural capital projects is also needed to leverage additional private capital.   More …
Insight, 17 July 2017
Forest Connect: championing local forest enterprises
… Ethiopia to learn from the country’s experience in locally controlled forestry and reaffirm our vision that poverty reduction and forest … . Ethiopia’s experience Ethiopia is turning to locally controlled forestry under the banner of Participatory Forest Management (PFM). As …
Insight, 24 February 2011
Satellite image of the zinc, lead and silver mine in Cerro de Pasco, Peru.
Report scopes sustainability of China-Latin America relations
News, 09 May 2013
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… processing facilities. We are also using dialogues to drive community forestry: working with communities across the Congo Basin, the IIED-led …
Page, 24 October 2018
Charting a course for biodiversity and the poor
… Learning Group , heard experts conclude that conservation projects can, in some instances, lift people out of poverty . A review … revealed that community timber enterprises, forest tourism, agro-forestry, marine tourism and the exploitation of fish spill-over from … are the most effective conservation activities. But the same projects can also become a ‘poverty trap’ if, for example, their …
Insight, 22 October 2010
An association of farmers in northeast Myanmar carries out value chain analysis of elephant foot yam (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
… vision on how best to increase finance and investment in sustainable forestry and farming? DM: My vision is to tailor different financing … produced by Tropenbos International and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). FTA is the world’s largest research for …
Article, 12 March 2019
RRA Notes 13: Proceedings of the February 1991 Bangalore PRA Trainers Workshop
… learned by the Hope International Development Agency (HIDA) Social Forestry Program in Andrah Pradesh. A report on participatory impact …
Publication, 01 August 1991
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 6 Pair wise ranking made easy
… are lists of other provides such a method. An example of problems, projects or commodities, such as this is given in Table 1. To construct this table, trees for planting in forestry programmes. each problem was compared in turn with each Ranking …
Publication, 01 January 1997