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Local logging bosses ('patrons') attend a training session on business organisation and forest management in the remote miombo forest near Caia in Central Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
… persist. And who better to address deforestation than these very people whose livelihoods depend on trees. Eight hours by car to Caia … however indirectly, the outcome of this play will affect us all.   Duncan Macqueen ( duncan.macqueen@iied.org ) is principal researcher in IIED's … Duncan Macqueen …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Unleashing the economic power of forest lands through producer organisations
… the fact that there are around one billion smallholders, indigenous people and local community members owning one quarter of the world’s … hang in the balance. "What was amazing about the conference," says Duncan Macqueen, a Principal Researcher on forests at the International …
News, 05 December 2013
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… support for associations of small and medium forest enterprises Duncan Macqueen, Sonja Vermeulen, Cornelius Kazoora, Frank Merry, Sharon … enterprises are vital to the lives of a high proportion of poor people around the world. Associations among such enterprises can …
Publication, 01 January 1970
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PLA 59: Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development
… tools to promote social networking for the Forest Connect alliance  Duncan Macqueen Promoting information-sharing in Ghana using video blogging  … Esterhuysen Web 2.0 tools for development: simple tools for smart people  Ethan Zuckerman The Web2forDev story: towards a community of …
Article, 31 May 2009
First international gathering of forest producer organisations underway
… It is hosted by the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of the People’s Republic of China. It is appropriate that such an event will … frameworks in which producer organizations can flourish," says Duncan Macqueen, Principal Researcher in IIED’s Forest Team. "We’re hoping that …
News, 25 November 2013
A man waters seedlings at a nursery at the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya managed by Wildlife Works Carbon.
Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry
… Organization and the World Bank . These meetings gathered indigenous people, family foresters, researchers, government representatives, … too small to attract conventional investment or financial services." Duncan Macqueen of IIED, who also contributed to the guide, adds: "About a …
News, 24 September 2012
Ghana’s hidden forestry revealed in first study of its kind
… on at a national level in countries such as Ghana. But for local people in Ghana the loss of forests has more immediate impacts. For … for local forest dependent people and the planet as a whole," says Duncan Macqueen, Team Leader of the Forest Team at the International Institute …
News, 10 March 2010
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PLA 53: Tools for influencing power and policy
… written by eight partners from the  Power Tools  project. Many people's lives involve the day-to-day management of natural resources. … of small and medium-scale forest enterprise in the Brazilian Amazon Duncan Macqueen, Luciene Figueiredo, Frank Merry and Noemi Porro Power Tool: …
Article, 01 December 2005