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REDD: Protecting climate, forests and livelihoods
… such as indiscriminate unenforced logging, less profitable than the sustainable alternative. REDD, as currently conceived, involves payments … of resources — to some 70 million people, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. Managing forests sustainably so they … and there across the globe, with varying levels of success. The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve Project in Amazonas, Brazil's biggest …
Article, 14 May 2009
A farmers’ house in Bandevouri, South Region, Cameroon. Bandevouri is one of several locations where the Centre for Environment and Development seconded a law graduate to assist rural people in legal matters (Photo: Thierry Berger)
IIED webinar: improving accountability in agribusiness investments
… natural resources. IED Afrique is an NGO that focuses on issues of sustainable development and citizenship in Africa, through capacity …
Event, 06 June 2017
Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling
How to protect our oceans: use more carrots
… to UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook 5 . Similarly, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 01 November 2013
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
Article, 09 August 2021
Exercises helped the Food Change Lab group trust one another
Food, sisterhood and dreams
… session of the Food Change Lab held in Bolivia by the Hivos and IIED Sustainable Diets for All programme . The participants formed a … vital part of the food cycle, from production to consumption. The Sustainable Diets for All programme in Bolivia is a joint effort between … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 16 October 2018
Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… as part of the recent wave of large-scale land deals for plantation agriculture in low and middle-income countries. The report looks at … IIED's revised and updated handbook on foreign investment, law and sustainable development provides guidance to governments and advocates … Thierry Berger (2015), IIED Report/paper Foreign investment, law and sustainable development: a handbook on agriculture and extractive …
Insight, 17 February 2016
Cover for G00194.pdf
Corporate Responsibility for Environment and Development
… that poverty income countries, with gross national reduction and sustainable development per capita incomes of US$400 and Both Kenya and … sector to urban areas. Both have a significant poverty reduction and sustainable such policy objectives.1 The concept natural resource base, … countries in which this is most needed. significant potential for agriculture and is sometimes used as shorthand for natural …
Publication, 01 July 2005
Cover for G03585.pdf
South-South REDD: A Brazil–Mozambique initiative for zero deforestation with pan-African relevance
… Coordination of Environmental Affairs (MICOA), and the Foundation for Sustainable Amazonas (FAS) in Brazil. The Ministry of Agriculture, through the National Directorate of Lands and Forests, was …
Publication, 01 May 2013
Cover for G04447.pdf
The Maize Park Biocultural Heritage Territory in Lares, Peru. Case study guidance on biocultural heritage territories
… to revitalise biocultural heritage for resilient food systems and sustainable mountain development, guided by indigenous holistic … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 February 2020
Gastro(eco)nomic revolution in Peru
… process also attracted investments in mining and export agriculture in the 90s – under very good conditions and driven by a … as a tool for cultural and economic integration (fusion) and sustainable development. With others, he has created an association to … Food and agriculture …
Insight, 16 October 2011