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Land cleared for palm oil production, Indonesia (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals
… lease with an Indian investor, alleging lack of progress with land development.  A few weeks ago, the Indian investor was quoted as saying … 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 …
Insight, 17 February 2016
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
News, 16 December 2015
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What maintains poverty? A study of factors affecting poverty in mountainous areas of Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
… population growth, are further causes of poverty. • Farmers’ passive approach to marketing, a consequence of the long existence of a … reaching the poor in most assistance programmes. • The role of the Agriculture and Forestry Extension is weak. • The SFEs, a big land … enjoy a much more favourable share but fail to use land in a sustainable way, while a number of households have no access to forest …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Forest farmer representatives from eight Southeast Asian countries exchange experiences with one of the branches of Tree Bank Foundation in Central Thailand (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
In the king's wake
… IUCN, one of the FFF alliance's three partners including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IIED.   We … and innovations in five key areas promoting: Rights to secure tenure Sustainable forest and farm management Sustainable livelihoods through … support from the Asian Farmers Association for sustainable rural development (AFA) , whose participants represented the association's …
Insight, 20 December 2016
Markets for the poor: the gap between theory and practice
… and Hivos, held in Paris on 30 March and hosted by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) and the Institut de Recherches et … Pierre de Lapasse, from oil and gas giant Total, said that to do development as a private company you must deal with your own problems and those of your operators first. “If development projects are not directly related to business, they have …
Article, 06 April 2011
A London workshop heard about the human stories of gold mining from artisanal and small-scale miners in Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Bright prospects for mining sector dialogue
News, 30 June 2015
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… and cultural forested landscapes. A new 'locally controlled forestry' approach is available that maintains the integrity of both forests and … defend their interests. Yet how else is it possible to incentivise sustainable forest management and poverty reduction in the same breath – … , International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  and IIED are …
Insight, 17 November 2014
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
Article, 10 October 2016
A woman carries a Nile perch landed at Got Kachola, Kenya, where the NGO Renewable World is establishing community-run energy hubs for fish chilling and other local energy needs (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)
Four challenges to powering local economies
… in specific sectors and sub-sectors, such as small-scale fishing or agriculture. Yet all too often, assessments do not really get to grips … as a welding machine. There are various ways to build demand. One approach is where energy providers identify an 'anchor' client – for a … is a senior researcher working on energy in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group . …
Insight, 12 September 2016
A man points to a wild chimpanzee up a tree
Markets and payments for environmental services
… This approach recognises the important role that the environment plays in … robust research, clear property rights, equitable benefit sharing and sustainable finance. Read this briefing or this blog to find out more. … Chimpanzees in Uganda are under threat as their habitat is lost to agriculture and human settlements. Central to this problem is the …
Project, 03 October 2008