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Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… 85 per cent of the world's 'Brazil' nuts. Members of 17 Bolivian forest farm producer organisations visited the Manuripi in Pando last … on Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) (PDF) funded by the Forest Farm Facility (FFF) to strengthen forest farm producer … the FFF to capture in a compendium examples of locally controlled forestry business models that can be used to inform national programmes …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Logging truck in Cameroon. Credit: World Resources Institute (Creative Commons)
What’s missing from private-sector REDD+?
… agreed a framework to implement REDD+, a mechanism that will finance projects that prevent deforestation or enhance forests, so long as they … mean plenty of benefits for local communities too. However, our research reveals two big challenges and suggests several ways to address … we reviewed have not involved businesses in the agriculture, mining, forestry and energy sectors that are active in the project areas. By …
Insight, 29 January 2014
Cover for 16544IIED.pdf
Sustainability standards in China-Latin America trade and investment: A discussion
… trade and investment between China and Latin America in mining, forestry and agriculture, with a particular focus on Chile, Peru and … standards, both international and national – for example, Forest Stewardship Council certification and China’s national forestry … of standards, it identifies several important questions for future research, in this under-researched but important topic for …
Publication, 01 May 2013
Good governance key to success of payments to tackle deforestation and climate change
… IIED, the World Resources Institute and the Center for International Forestry Research looked at existing efforts to pay people in developing nations … Government to pay close attention to the impacts the N-CFI’s pilot projects have on poor households. "Massive levels of funding are set to …
News, 05 June 2009
A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… South Korea keen to find answers to these questions can learn from research carried out in 2013.  The qualitative baseline study conducted … out how to grow several wild species 'on farm',   for domesticating forest food and medicinal plants. In all cases, traditional knowledge … ANDES (Peru) , Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (China) , Kenya Forestry Research Institute (Kenya) , and Lok Chetna Manch (India) …
Insight, 07 October 2014
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 … how do we increase productivity while maintaining and restoring forest resources? In an effort to contribute to this debate, I was … of the 'Inclusive REDD+' project, supported by the UK government. Our research is investigating the cocoa/chocolate supply chain to …
Insight, 16 September 2015
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
… are already achieving zero hunger for many Indigenous Peoples, as research  by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations … and important for food security; in Northeast India, forest policies that restrict the use of ancestral Lepcha forests are … Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) , and implemented with Kenya Forestry Research Institute , Lok Chetna Manch (India) and the National …
Insight, 23 October 2020
Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)
Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation
Insight, 05 December 2014
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 … exchange on 'Opportunities and approaches to supporting community forest enterprises'  in Kribi, Cameroon.  Across the African continent, … 90 representatives from government, companies, investment agencies, research and civil society organisations. This facilitated and frank …
Page, 24 October 2018
A water connection to link the Lobé river to Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon
LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon
… resources for extractive industries and environmental conservation projects, which take up considerable amounts of land. Cameroon is no … have been seeking extensive areas for developing concessions. Mining, forestry and agribusiness concessions continue to overlap with one … strategies, outcomes and lessons can be found in a dedicated research report ( also in French ). …
Project, 08 May 2017