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Deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which has been pledged US$1 billion pledge of REDD+ finance from Norway (Photo: Josh Estey/Aus Aid, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
What's next for REDD+?
… sectors Most people think REDD+ is about forests. That's just wrong. Forestry-related drivers of deforestation and forest degradation are just part of the picture. Many speakers at the … in place to prevent environmental or social harm arising from REDD+ projects. What's missing is a good understanding of the relationship …
Insight, 29 April 2014
Markets for environmental services case studies
… contracts or eco-tourism. The framework focused initially on forest, water and wildlife resources, looking at recent initiatives to … benefits (services) in rural areas of the developing world. Research findings were targeted at developing country governments, … services and improved livelihoods IIED's environmental economics and forestry and land use programmes worked together on this DFID-sponsored …
Project, 08 May 2008
Nepal: space to debate, opportunities to act
… the country’s own GFP initiative. Unlike many implementation projects, GFP has helped to give the Nepali consortium the opportunity … since GFP-Nepal began, it has enabled those active in debates about forestry to start to see each others’ points of view, if not necessarily … of this nature, which would be based on good scientific evidence and research. The consortium will decide what form this will take, and it …
Insight, 24 March 2011
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The evolution of Casa Pueblo, Puerto Rico: From mining opposition to community revolution
… music and field action), information gathering, sound science and research, and self-sufficiency through community enterprises, such as … mining project, Casa Pueblo has also changed national mining and forestry policy. It has promoted sustainable forestry, developing a string of pro-poor, pro-environment forest reserves; developed a model of communitybased forest management; …
Publication, 01 August 2008
Community representatives gather together to record their knowledge about dryland resources as part of a participatory mapping process in Isiolo County, Kenya. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Strengthening civil society to support natural resource management
… civil society action has become increasingly urgent. Yet new research suggests (PDF)  civil society is not being supported to do … in Namibia and Kenya , to the design of sustainable community forestry models in Tanzania, and to a wide range of land and forest policy reform initiatives and movements in countries from Liberia …
Insight, 29 July 2015
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… future". Bharati Pathak Chairperson of the Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal (FECOFUN)  – nominated by Anna Bolin . "My nomination … has been at the forefront globally of gender equality in forestry by deciding from the start that representation at each level … I had the opportunity to intern under her for a while as she led a research think tank in Sri Lanka called Centre for Poverty Analysis. …
Article, 15 June 2020
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
… through its loans to off-grid solar enterprises. And we heard about forestry cooperatives in Guatemala that channel private and public … relies on aggregation. All too often, local resilience or development projects are small in scale and big in number. External funders find it … And that’s a problem: talking about small- and medium-sized forest enterprises in Guatemala and Mozambique, IIED researcher Anna …
Insight, 15 December 2016
Business models for sustainable development
… the whole market chain is a key feature. Key factors of success Our research has identified a number of factors that contribute to the … sustainable development cuts across several areas of IIED’s research: Forestry Small-scale forestry was for years half-lost in the shadow of … viable community forestry Food and agriculture Two major IIED projects in the food and agriculture sector relate to business models …
Article, 10 May 2010
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 … and the implications for small-scale producers. We have undertaken research on the strategies and constraints of small producer agency in …
Article, 22 April 2014
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… of all their energy comes from wood, charcoal, agricultural and forest residues and domestic or municipal waste – and the figure is much … with policy mandates and incentives for biomass supply and for research and development of new biomass energy technologies. And it would emphasise locally controlled forestry and agriculture that balances needs for food, fibre and fuel …
Insight, 11 April 2011