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The Forest and Farm Facility Vietnam team displays new forest and farm products and knowledge from work with Forest and Farm Producer Organisation businesses (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
… its real constituency are the women and men, smallholder families, indigenous peoples and local communities with strong relationships to forest … engagement was structured around a strong national agriculture and natural resource policy platform, and  In Myanmar and Nicaragua, work …
Insight, 20 March 2018
An orange sky
How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
Insight, 06 January 2020
PLA 65 cover image
PLA 65 - Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… rural communities in the global South – including some 370 million indigenous peoples – directly depend on biodiversity and related traditional … – in which communities set out their customary rights to natural resources and land, as recognised in customary, national and …
Article, 31 May 2012
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… Africa, many others are saying the same thing. And it is not just indigenous peoples and NGOs who point to the essential place of local rights and … conclusions (take a look at the report of the recent Rights and Resources Initiative dialogue in London ). A system that relies on money … Natural resource management …
Insight, 30 November 2011
Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase
… Ogiek people secured a landmark win at the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights after decades of forced evictions from their ancestral … precedent, which activists can use to push for better laws to protect indigenous peoples' land rights across the continent.  Last December, Cameroon's …
Insight, 28 March 2018
Afghan farmers and extension workers assess an okra field in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (Photo: Barbara Adoph/IIED)
Introduction to building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems
Article, 05 August 2013
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The Pastoral Women's Council: Empowerment for Tanzania's Maasai
… and encouraging women to talk openly). Its approach is to empower indigenous communities to secure their access and rights to natural resources and to have their role in the management of these resources …
Publication, 01 August 2008
Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal.
When pigs fly: Why is including women in managing forests still so unusual?
… 22-24, organised by Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) and The Forests Dialogue , aims to … mainstream gender in forestry sector? Much attention has been paid to indigenous peoples within the forestry sector. Why have women not been able to …
Insight, 24 September 2012
Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)
Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
… dry-season fires and expanding populations are degrading these resources in an increasingly variable climate. The forest land itself … 2007, the Supreme Court of Belize ordered the government to recognise indigenous land rights and demarcate and title their land. In 2010, the … southern region of Toledo. It also issued an injunction prohibiting natural resource use concessions throughout Toledo. The government …
Insight, 08 February 2016
Reforestation program in Guatemala (Photo: Enrique Varahona)
Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
… future. The sheer numbers of local smallholders, communities and indigenous peoples who know and love their forests and farms offers transformative … own enterprises that improve livelihoods, sustain and restore the natural resources that underpin them and secure intergenerational …
Project, 29 May 2014