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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+?
… REDD+ must be implemented at a landscape level which embodies various resources, various and competing uses and users. The tendency in REDD+ … side alone suggests that major issues remain unresolved in wider natural resource management and investment. While REDD+ provides an … Isilda Nhantumbo is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group ( [email protected] ) Read more about the REDD+ event at …
Insight, 29 April 2014
Community-based adaptation and microfinance: a win-win partnership?
… groups build income and asset bases and also help with managing cash, resources and dealing with risk. All of these aspects can help reduce … means plants may be sowed too soon or too late. The impact of the natural environment on the harvest affects the household’s income and …
Insight, 21 March 2011
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 7 Some observations on wealth ranking after an RRA looking at soil fertility management in Northeastern Zimbabwe
… divided themselves into three applications in the field of natural resource groups. The first (Group A) consisted of two management. The second part of the article …
Publication, 01 January 1993
For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… , Zimbabwe The Gambian Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water Resources, Parks and Wildlife , The Gambia Muungano wa Wanavijiji , …
News, 11 November 2014
Men and women sitting in chairs.
What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania
… councils and civil society advocates. From 2017-18, the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) and IIED received requests from each of … through the National Engagement Strategy (NES), Tanzania’s working group on land-based investment. …
Insight, 14 December 2020
A wholesale fish market in Cox's Bazar on the Bay of Bengal. Fishing communities need access to finance and infrastructure such as clean water, refrigeration and transport (Photo: Aftab Uzzaman, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Untangling the net: what does 'leave no one behind' mean for fishers?
… to benefit from suitable financial mechanisms means bringing more resources into the economy – in the form of money and participation in … a senior researcher in IIED's  Shaping Sustainable Markets research group .  Further resources: Mohammed has recently authored an IIED background report …
Insight, 11 July 2016
A young rice farmer at Sélingué, Mali. A new report urges governments and development agencies to develop context-specific strategies and support systems for agricultural advisory services that meet the needs of local farmers (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
Growing rice needs more than soil and water
… in institutions to ensure farmers have the knowledge, incentives and resources to produce more and to produce it better. But AAS have long … Adolph ([email protected]) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group …
Insight, 30 September 2016
Fadzilah Majid-Cooke
Q&A with Fadzilah Majid-Cooke: land rights and agricultural investments in Southeast Asia
… find themselves caught up in the complexities of global capital and natural resource exploitation, and its effects on the environment and …
Article, 18 March 2013
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 13 NGOs as brokers in agricultural R&E planning
… local and international NGOs and local technical expertise and other resources. membership organisations) have moved away Where they do not have specialist from exclusively relief functions and are resources in-house, there may be a increasingly involved in development … with empowerment of their members or client government R&E services. group. Where NGO projects and programmes are planned in conjunction with …
Publication, 01 January 1988
A farm in Uganda. There has recently been much debate about responsible investment in the agricultural sector (Photo: US Aid, Creative Common, via Flickr)
Responsible investment provisions in international investment treaties: where next?
… is a principal researcher (law and sustainable development) in IIED's Natural Resources research group . This is a lightly revised version of remarks made at the UNCTAD …
Insight, 16 October 2017