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Pilot projects including the Bolsa Floresta forest stipend scheme in Amazonas, Brazil, help to combat deforestation in Brazil (Google re-use licensed)
How to assess what people want from REDD+
… livelihoods, such as for fuelwood or to provide land for expanding agriculture. If national and local REDD+ programmes close off land and … pilot project, Tanzania and Aowin District, Ghana) and a hybrid approach that combined focus group discussions with group-based choice … and programmes. Maryanne Grieg-Gran is Principal Economist in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group ([email protected]) Download the …
Insight, 31 March 2014
Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?
Insight, 13 January 2017
A carpenter bee
Biodiversity on the brink: local people must shape nature’s new deal
… biodiversity agenda supports and is fully aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Governments need to move beyond the current focus on … loss as well as for conservation activities and ecological outcomes. Agriculture, for example, is estimated to be responsible for about 75% …
Insight, 16 November 2018
Cover for G01373.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
Publication, 01 January 1988
Roasted coffee beans.
World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
… surprised to see this World Food Day statement from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). We all know of failed co-operatives, promoted by governments and the development sector since the 1960s, and ‘dropped’ in the 1980s with the … polices’. Yet the past decade has mostly emphasised one approach: value chain interventions to ‘ make markets work for the poor …
Insight, 15 October 2012
Rwanda has made significant commitments on restoration. Kigali, surrounded by green hills, was a particularly fitting venue for the African Forest Landscape Investment Forum (Photo: atulinda Images, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
… The event was titled ' Unleashing business opportunities for sustainable landscapes ' – and delivering forest landscape restoration (FLR) through business development was the focus of animated discussions throughout the week. … incubation, is at the heart of the second phase of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO)  Forest Farm …
Insight, 08 June 2017
Cover for G01537.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
Publication, 01 January 1994
Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
Article, 06 December 2019
Cover for G03677.pdf
Cost implications for pro-poor REDD+ in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam
… This report is published under the ‘Poverty and sustainable development impacts of REDD architecture: options for equity, growth and … costs may help to identify opportunities for implementing a pro-poor approach to REDD+, many other costs are associated with implementing and …
Publication, 01 October 2013
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… and gain energy independence. The need to adopt a more sophisticated approach to biomass energy is the central argument of a new IIED report … and fuel wood is a crucial first step because only when supply is sustainable will it be possible to attract investment into more advanced … technologies. And it would emphasise locally controlled forestry and agriculture that balances needs for food, fibre and fuel within …
Insight, 11 April 2011