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A community workshop. Social learning processes were a key element of a successful 10-year collaboration between the International Potato Centre (CIP) and indigenous communities in the Peruvian Andes (Photo: IIED)
It's the process, stupid 
… aid and broader criticism of overseas spending threaten funding for climate change initiatives in some of the world's most vulnerable … The African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) in Uganda  The Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation (PACCA) in East Africa, and … institutions in different ways. ACCRA, PACCA, and the Potato Park all integrated members of institutions they wished to challenge into their …
Insight, 16 March 2017
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… to be a new 'silver bullet' in town – anything to avoid the necessity for painstaking engagement. Novelty is king: a consultation programme on … forest-farm enterprises delivers local public goods (such as sustainable food, energy, water and construction materials) alongside … involved with the complex mish-mash of forest and farm producers' integrated needs. Single-issue agendas driven by outsider interest …
Insight, 24 March 2014
A tree nursery run by Fedecovera, is the world's biggest exporter of cardamom and a cooperative with 25,000 members (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Organise to thrive
… use of distinct landscape resources. While that might be a recipe for division and conflict, it has not panned out that way. Organisation … It is a major shareholder in the country's most widespread rural development bank (Banrural) and receives a 40 per cent annual return on … and farm producer group businesses, engagement with multi-sectoral policy platforms, and making their voice heard at the international …
Insight, 30 June 2015
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… was part of a week-long training programme on Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) (PDF) funded by the Forest Farm Facility (FFF) to … passed a 2012 Framework Law of Mother Earth and Holistic Development for Living Well – quite a mouthful! But behind the rhetoric is some … change through business models that put the holistic nature of sustainable forest farm management at the foundation. MCMA is currently …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Cover for G02188.pdf
Chapter 9 TRADE APPLICATIONS
… in Canada by the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program, 1999). They analyse only economic and … of trade policies and agreements, UNEP has developed a manual for the "integrated assessment of trade -related policies" (UNEP 2001) comprising …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Cover for G02166.pdf
APPENDICES
… Document begins: APPENDICES 1 SEA legal and policy benchmarks 2 Some key questions for assessing the utility of SEA in developing countries 3 The situation … assessment (ANSEA) 14 Steps for starting, managing and improving a sustainable development strategy 343 344 Appendix 1: SEA legal and …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… the congress will share knowledge and innovation, setting the agenda for protected areas conservation for the decade to come. Building on the … Thaddeus Chadau, Kyaramacan Peoples Association; Friedrich Alpers, Integrated Rural and Nature Conservation; Jaime Siqueira Jr, Fundacao … RAMPAO Secretariat, Senegal; Michael Winer, Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, Australia; Michele Andrianarisata, Conservation …
Event, 12 November 2014
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… All too often, Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) projects fail to stop … after it became a national park in 1991 and ICD has been a key way for park authorities to improve relations with local communities. But … needed  When presenting our research findings at workshops to Ugandan policy makers and conservation practitioners , we focused on the …
Insight, 20 August 2014
A farmer in Tanzania shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Farmers in developing countries, and women farmers in particular, find it difficult to get multi-peril crop insurance (Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
… the developing world. It pays out according to a predetermined index for asset and investment losses, such as the loss of agricultural … insurance contract, such as the frequency of payouts.  R4 has also integrated an 'insurance through work' programme allowing traditionally … ( [email protected] ) is a consultant working with IIED's Sustainable Markets Group . …
Insight, 16 July 2015
A native bird in Costa Rica found in a payments for environmental services project run by IIED and FONAFIFO (Photo Ina Porras)
Who will pay for ecosystem services?
… their cattle from entering rivers and creeks that provide water for downstream communities. In south-western Uganda, small-scale farmers … does this seem the exception and not the rule? There are many reasons for this, including patchy land rights, corrupted governments and lack … change. Public/private/donor partnerships and trust funds, like the Sustainable Biodiversity Fund in Costa Rica and the FONAG Fund in Quito …
Insight, 28 January 2014