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The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Star spice in Vietnam's forests
… in forest farms and fisheries around the country and nearly 15,000 staff organised from commune level through provincial and district level … An early target for presenting lessons from this work is the World Forestry Congress to be held in Durban in September. FFF hopes to see …
Insight, 05 August 2015
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 … different groups have learnt from their mistakes. For example, the staff from one project that has spent almost a decade domesticating …
Insight, 24 February 2011
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
… strengthened. This includes the leadership, management structure and staff skills required to manage savings transparently. Local producers … 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
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 4 Rapid appraisal for women in the North West frontier of Pakistan
Publication, 01 January 1988
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
… support for all women doing amazing things in our sector, and IIED’s staff and others have come together to nominate some outstanding women. … has been at the forefront globally of gender equality in forestry by deciding from the start that representation at each level … if imposed across the country, it would mean the ‘death to community forestry’. "The same year FECOFUN finalised its gender equality and …
Article, 15 June 2020
RRA Notes 13: Proceedings of the February 1991 Bangalore PRA Trainers Workshop
… A detailed account of a five day training course in PRA for NGO staff working on a project in West Bengal. A report on a three day … 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 23 Section on Participatory Approaches to HIV/AIDS Programmes
Publication, 01 June 1995
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… : H.E. Mr. Tae Pyong JANG Former Minister for Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries of Republic, Korea Mr. Michael MACK CEO, Syngenta … to the conference organisers about the themes before 31 August 2012 . Staff from IIED are involved in running a number of workshops at the …
Event, 16 August 2012
Gatekeeper series: Local organization Profiles
Article, 01 April 2010
Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green grows the informal economy
… involved in related activities downstream. In Indonesia, the informal forestry sector contributes around EUR € 63 million to local economies … of any formalisation effort.  Sian Lewis ( [email protected] ) is a staff writer in IIED's Communications Group. Resources We published …
Insight, 10 March 2016