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Cover for 21356iied.pdf
Using dialogue to address land-related conflicts
… large-scale investments in sectors such as agribusiness, mining and forestry has caused widespread transfers of land rights from local …
Publication, 30 January 2023
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Social Forestry versus Social Reality: Patronage and community-based forestry in Bangladesh
… Social forestry has acquired great significance in Bangladesh as a strategy for … social relations and networks which dictate the performance of social forestry have largely been ignored by planners of social forestry projects. This paper examines one of the most dominant manifestations of … Social Forestry versus Social Reality: Patronage and community-based forestry …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest - lush green landscape with river running through it.
Locally-controlled sustainable forestry in Brazil faces uphill struggle
… support is inconsistent. While many innovative locally-controlled forestry projects are being carried out in the country, the state needs to support locally-controlled forestry schemes if it wants to seriously support sustainable forestry … Locally-controlled sustainable forestry in Brazil faces uphill struggle …
Insight, 13 June 2012
Members of Likawage Village Natural Resources Committee use beaters to prevent a lit fire from burning backwards towards farms (Photo: Deogratias Ndossi)
Making REDD+ work for communities and forests: three shared lessons for project designers
Article, 10 April 2014
Women racing while carrying baskets full of sweet potatoes on their backs.
Faith in ecology: how one group of Indigenous people in the Philippines are advancing agrobiodiversity
… and the national Bureau of Forest Development: the main government forestry agency at the time. That signing was a significant step towards …
Insight, 05 December 2024
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
… organisations have spent vast sums on 'alternative livelihoods' projects that encourage people to cease an environmentally damaging … one. But as there is a lack of evidence as to whether these projects work, we are undertaking a systematic study of the evidence and … Erin Sills, senior associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in 2011, "then any other intervention is …
Insight, 04 February 2014
Cover for G03883.pdf
China-Africa Forest Governance Project: China Work Plan - Draft October 2014
… Chinese Academy of Forestry …
Publication, 01 October 2014
Cover for 9009IIED.pdf
Forestry Tactics: Lessons from Malawi’s National Forestry Programme
… To get anywhere in forestry these days you have to play politics. Forestry can and should improve people’s livelihoods as well as looking … and programmes which exist only as fat documents and list of projects for which donors cannot be found. It seeks to make the most of … Forestry Tactics: Lessons from Malawi’s National Forestry Programme …
Publication, 01 January 2001
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Ecotourism and PA Management in Nepal: Experiences and lessons learnt
… for a selected group. These included government officers from the Forestry Administration: WPO Deputy Director, Chief of Forestry Cantonment in Mondulkiri, Police Commissioner in Mondulkiri, a … are active participants in, or direct beneficiaries of eco-tourism projects in and around protected areas. c) To experience and learn from …
Publication, 01 July 2007
The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
… the evidence IIED has teamed up with the  Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) , ICFI , The Nature Conservancy (TNC) , USAID … Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management? …
Insight, 02 July 2015