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Annual report 2006/07
… relationships that substantially boosted rural development. Sustainable markets Boosting awareness of Africa’s greener bean:  IIED’s concept of … forum:  in September 2006, IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group was launched: a major platform for 70 conservation organisations …
Page, 16 April 2008
Biocultural products of the Potato Park in Peru, an example of the goods and services that can be produced by indigenous peoples to provide income and enhance incentives to sustain biocultural heritage (Photo: ANDES)
Consultation: designing a new biocultural heritage indication
… heritage', accompanied by the name of the relevant indigenous group, community or territory. It could be applied to goods and services …
Insight, 20 August 2015
Making sure the poor benefit from ecosystem services
… Palm wine, bat stew and carbon markets all made it into the same discussion in Parliament last night – … International Development at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for International Development and the Environment (APPGIDE) . … development of a new 117 hectare mangrove forest, potentially made sustainable through carbon markets. Making carbon into a commodity can …
Insight, 08 February 2012
A mango tree frames views of a forest in Mozambique in the distance.
China in Africa’s forests
… of how investments can support good forest management and a sustainable forest product trade between Africa and China. Building … held in China and facilitated by IIED’s Forest Governance Learning Group to initiate a China-Africa Forest Governance Learning Platform . … a small step, but when small changes are made in big systems, or big markets, they can have great effects. …
Insight, 20 March 2013
A new President: what does this mean for Bulgaria’s energy sector?
… Plevneliev’s first year in power and the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All . He should seize the opportunity to boost … was written by Emma Wilson, a Senior Researcher in the Sustainable Markets Group at IIED, and Teodora Todorova, an independent researcher who wrote …
Insight, 17 January 2012
Slash and burn, pictured in the Mopeia district, Zambezia province, Mozambique, has a noble motive – feeding families - but it is not sustainable (Photo: Isilda Nhantumbo/IIED)
REDD+: missionaries, conservation fortresses and the politics of carbon landscapes in Africa
… in adding value is essential, as is understanding financing and markets; and that devising inclusive and fair benefit sharing … role in shifting the development paradigm towards economies based on sustainable land uses. The message from various discussions at the … ) is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . Further resources: IIED senior researcher Isilda Nhantumbo …
Insight, 23 December 2015
A pinch of salt from Namaacha
… Strengthening local communities’ rights to and capacity for sustainable forest management is critical to making REDD work in … have dried up, enterprise options in Goba — so far from large urban markets — have also withered and died. Government services are … — these members of an international Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) have seen many similar stories. They know all too well the …
Insight, 17 December 2010
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… of Environment, Kenya; Dorsouma Al-Hamdou, African Development Bank Group; Ben Garside, IIED; Shepard Zvigadza, CSOs Climate Change Working … Environment Institute); Angela Enriquez (WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities), and Sarah Colenbrander (chair, and global programme … Women's unequal participation in decision-making processes and labour markets exacerbate inequalities and often prevent women from fully …
Event, 06 November 2017
Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world's poor
… Sustainable markets …
News, 02 June 2008
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… of their studies," says Dr Michel Pimbert, director of IIED’s sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods programme. "In … and ability to adapt to climate change. It also created stable local markets for marginalised producers to sell their surplus produce and …
News, 14 May 2008