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The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
… previously scrutinised the land deals between states and investors. Our report revealed how little information was available. Most contracts … annotations provided in OpenLandContracts are very important.  More work is needed to develop tools to enable informed discussion of …
Insight, 20 October 2015
A new publication will profile the success of locally controlled forestry business models (Image: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Local control of forestry could significantly slow man-made forest loss
… controlled forestry (LCF) business models can not only exist, but work well, delivering greater social benefit and environmental … will be compromised as competition for resources grow, as will our collective survival. Further resources: Flyer of IIED side event on …
News, 04 September 2015
South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
… on the regions remaining forests. Can the needs of the poor, and our desire to protect the forest, go hand in hand? Or will the forests … but is it possible? Not only is it possible, but "it must be made to work if we are to reduce poverty and protect forests at the same time". …
Insight, 04 September 2015
Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.
New Commission for oceans in crisis
… roughly half the oxygen we breathe, recycle nutrients and regulate our climate — services we too often fail to value . They cover more than … other emerging issues (like geo-engineering) in its sights. Will it work? But there are already more than 30 international frameworks and …
Insight, 14 February 2013
PLA 22 cover
PLA 22: General Issue
… such as social mapping and ranking. The contents include reports work in many countries, including Philippines, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. … The tips for trainers section looks at non-verbal sequences. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons … pdf format. Download the complete issue. Contents Editorial Sharing our concerns and looking to the future Elkanah Absalom et al. Handle …
Article, 01 February 1995
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
Insight, 06 November 2016
Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!
… 20th anniversary of the influential Brundtland Commission’s report Our Common Future, which first put sustainable development on the … the bottom up," he says. "Linking the many approaches that actually work – wiring together new systems, not rehashing plans – is the key to …
News, 20 March 2007
Green economics – surviving the trial
… doubts over the capacity of the existing economic system to serve our societies, while an ecological crisis grows quietly in the … atmospheric CO2 levels are just a couple of the symptoms.  The GEC’s work seeks to address the interconnectedness of these challenges in an … to make way for a New Forests Company (NFC) plantation. Oxfam's work with the communities concluded that many have been left destitute. …
Insight, 17 November 2011
Rwanda is planning to produce land, water and forest accounts to inform policy around managing its rich natural resources.(Photo: Catherine Nomura, Creative Commons via Flickr)
First steps in communication: raising awareness
… pictures received (such as the one below) just a few minutes before our meeting. #NTACMeet started with a tour of physical … None of this is set in stone – there is more discussion to be had to work out and agree the detail – but we had moved from a position of …
Insight, 12 May 2015
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
Event, 05 November 2016