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New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
… In 2015, MONREC established a Community Forestry National Working Group and a Community Forest Unit, tasked with transferring 918,000 … civil society member organisations of the Kachin Conservation Working Group about a wide range of support activities, including seedling and … up FFPOs business to implement Sustainable Development Goals in climate resilient landscapes', delivered an outcome statement comprising …
Insight, 05 December 2017
San Isidro Ketchi Cuisine and Craft Restaurant (SIKCCR - San Isidro) worked on their business plan (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Community forest-farm business training under way in Belize
… This will help protect forest biodiversity and help to mitigate climate change. Business development From 1-3 September 2016 the project on the … by TIDE and University of Edinburgh staff to discuss the benefits of group business for community development.  Representatives of each …
Insight, 14 September 2016
New issue of 'Environment and Urbanization' - Vol 21, No 2. 'Secure land for housing and urban development'
… finance that they can draw on as and when needed. The journal’s Climate Change section includes papers on migration, the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change and the performance of the Beddington Zero Energy …
News, 15 October 2009
Reforestation program in Guatemala (Photo: Enrique Varahona)
Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
… ecological know-how (to restore landscapes and adapt to and mitigate climate change); and social organisation (to maintain and enhance cultural … Launched in 2013, the Phase I of the facility has a proven theory of change based on three main pillars of work (click on the image to expand …
Project, 29 May 2014
Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal (Photo: Sajal Sthapit)
Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
… prepare to engage with REDD+ , a scheme being negotiated at the UN climate change talks to financially reward countries for reducing greenhouse … flow, and offer options to communities as they adapt to the changing climate. So engaging with REDD+ could offer multiple benefits to …
Insight, 09 April 2014
Two women sitting in a field
No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future
… combined with low productivity because of pests and diseases and climate change impacts, means that many farmers end up in debt. They cannot farm … of taking out loans, but didn't have many choices.     What needs to change? There have been many agricultural development interventions in …
Article, 26 April 2020
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
… liquorice-flavoured spice. So 'Thach Ngoa' – a star anise growers' group in My Phuong commune in Northern Vietnam is building on a rich … system, in a way that will help them both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Building locally-controlled forest business models of this type …
Insight, 05 August 2015
When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped
Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up
… action with long-term development. Given the likely impact of climate change on cities, approaches that combine crisis preparedness and crisis … is a senior researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog, which was originally posted by IRIN , draws on a …
Insight, 15 December 2017
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
… too high. The challenge is to build strong producer organisations and change the perceptions of all involved. NP: What are the underlying … finance within its entire programme. Its Natural Resources research group has helped FAO, IUCN and Agricord design a financing mechanism to … in sustainable development and food security and to address climate change. CIFOR leads FTA in partnership with Bioversity …
Article, 12 March 2019
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… The landmark Paris climate summit agreement that aims to move countries towards a low … Key groups within the informal economy play an important role in climate change mitigation. In India, street traders and home-based workers – …
News, 24 February 2016