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Commercial logging in Tengchong, China. Photo: Simon Lim
Supporting locally-controlled forest enterprises
… the regional and national level. To this end, IIED contributes to the management of a new Forest and Farm Facility , which supports … work closely with the three international alliances of community, indigenous and family foresters — the Three Rights-Holders’ Group — to promote investing in locally-controlled …
Article, 11 September 2013
Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen
Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations
… 90 million forestry farms had been granted certificates for forest management. Some 115,000 forest cooperatives had formed. China’s … FAO and IUCN. China has established more than 1000 forest ownership management service centres to deal with disputed land titles and … from a series of 11 dialogues between smallholder, community and indigenous people’s groups and investors. An ILCF guide for investors …
Insight, 28 November 2013
A church under construction sits on a verdant green field with dark grey storm clouds behind.
Rio+20: Key recommendations from IIED conference
… Rather, it lifts people out of poverty through better use of the natural resources and associated local knowledge that are the main … Estebancio Castro Diaz, head of the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests: “Change needs to come from the … Natural resource management …
News, 20 June 2012
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
Insight, 15 December 2014
Stakeholders inspect timber as part of the Eighth field dialogue on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry (ILCF) in Yogyakarta (Jogya), Central Java Province, Indonesia.
Needed: Local farmers and communities to plant trees in Indonesia
… Forest-owning families and communities, or those with secure rights to state-owned forests, referred to as locally-controlled … optimising the incentives for local families, communities and indigenous peoples to invest in commercial tree planting and management in …
Insight, 22 February 2012
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… Nobody, because it didn’t exist. Yet an alliance known as The Three Rights Holders Group (G3) has had a strong presence at COP 16 in Cancun, … GFP had therefore invited various local community groups representing indigenous peoples, tribal peoples, minorities and forest dwellers to this series …
Insight, 17 January 2011
CBA12: Key messages
… (low cost). They also need to be reliable, maintain or build the natural capital on which they depend, and be productive and profitable … approach, hence the past and present emphasis on integrated watershed resource management (IWRM) and ecosystems-based adaptation (EBA). This … – focused on how to get the participation of grassroots and indigenous women into local, national and international decision-making …
Article, 11 June 2018
MMSD – working papers
… for outcomes: a framework for the consideration of options No. 2 Indigenous Peoples, mining, and international law  |  No. 2a Pueblos Indígenas, … to information through the mining life cycle working No. 9 Human rights in the minerals industry No. 12 Armed conflict and natural …
Article, 04 March 2009
Tick tock — it’s the year of forests
… figure is misleading. Increasing rates of deforestation in biodiverse natural forests are hidden by afforestation elsewhere. We are not … and pulp and paper companies. Satellite imagery in Brazil show that indigenous lands make up a fifth of the legal Amazon and remain 98.3 per cent preserved. Where clear rights have been granted in countries such as Mexico or Nepal, the …
Insight, 22 December 2010
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community-led solutions: key force in tackling wildlife crime
… and combating IWT Seeking to understand and respond to community rights, needs and priorities in designing anti-IWT initiatives … trade of wild resources Supporting the devolution of wildlife access, management and stewardship rights to the lowest appropriate level, and … commodities. Much more emphasis must now be placed on the role of indigenous and local communities , and this needs to be included as an …
News, 02 March 2015