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Justice in the forests: a series of short films
… brought government together with charcoal producers in search of more sustainable and pro-poor policy solutions. … production – and that legalisation and management can make it a sustainable source of green energy as well as reducing poverty at the … is still standing, the threat to Uganda's forests from commercial agriculture remains, and in other areas it is proving even harder to …
Article, 15 April 2011
The rich landscape of the Wolayita region in Southern Ethiopia highlights the country's huge potential (Photo: Rod Waddington, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why parliament should scrutinise the UK-Ethiopia BIT
… Cotula ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher, Law and Sustainable Development; team leader - Legal Tools, Natural Resources Group Resources: Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: A handbook on agriculture and extractive industries , Lorenzo Cotula (2013), IIED …
Insight, 19 January 2015
Annual report 2007/08
… shaping futures all around the globe: in short, the human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights Climate change … With IIED and a local NGO, they researched what makes for successful sustainable food systems. Helping West African women be heard:  IIED’s … chain’: bringing the 1.9 billion rural poor who depend on small-scale agriculture into today’s ‘plot to plate’ system. Communications Weaving …
Page, 23 December 2008
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How to boost investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico
… to which local communities control them – offer great potential for sustainable forestry. What has long been missing is investment, but … per cent of what the livestock sector does, and just 10 per cent of agriculture. It is easy to see why. Only 7 million hectares out of the …
Insight, 01 October 2013
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
… harbours 33 of the Least Developed Countries, is heavily reliant on agriculture and has limited economic resources to finance adaptation.   … intertwined issues. Unsustainable development drives climate change; sustainable development can reduce vulnerability to it. Development … particularly for poorer rural people? Biofuels could revitalise rural agriculture and livelihoods – or, where there are competing claims on …
Event, 20 December 2008
Women walk along a red dirt road in Benin.
Is the tide turning for Africa’s investment treaties?
… has increased pressure on governments to take fuller account of sustainable development considerations in investment treaties. In … goals. This includes: the Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development elaborated by the United Nations Conference on … Development, and the Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development prepared by the International Institute for …
Insight, 08 March 2013
Cover for G01903.pdf
Using participatory research techniques to investigate local notions of malaria in a Nigerian community:
… grasp where and how the information fits into the entire process of sustainable development. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 June 2000
Cover for 6151IIED.pdf
Capitals and Capabilities: A framework for analysing peasant viability, rural livelihoods and poverty in the Andes
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1999
REDD+: a win-win deal is possible!
… reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, sustainable forest management, conservation and enhancement of carbon … farmers and small-scale farmers to find viable, competitive and sustainable alternatives to high-value commodities, like timber and cash … Operational frameworks, such as FPIC, could guide investment in agriculture, mining, industrial forest plantations, infrastructure and …
Insight, 17 November 2011
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 11 PRA and its complementarities with household survey methodologies
… We wanted to compare resource management practices. It became the sustainable management of the mangroves to their conversion to shrimp … a abandon previously viable management community definition of sustainable management. This reflected the `revealed strategies. It had … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1997