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Forest and farm producers working together to improve policy and secure tenure
… As a large proportion of the rural private sector, forest and farm producers are the primary actors in rural transformation and sustainable development. They possess knowledge and experience essential to shaping …
Publication, 01 March 2016
Rubbish and black bin bags are strewn around
Carbon offsetting: who’s really winning?
Insight, 07 July 2020
Women play a major role in the ASM sector in Ghana, as they do in all countries where ASM takes place. The dialogue meetings offered the chance to share ideas about improving working conditions and community wellbeing (Photo: Friends of the Nation)
New voices: Ghanaian miners, students and civil society representatives talk about ASM
… talks about the responsibility of small-scale miners to contribute to sustainable development. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU7pO_qpOcM] IIED's … and productive employment across the mining sector and complementary rural livelihoods.  A  background research report , which was the basis … Sustainable markets …
News, 27 October 2016
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… links to related blogs and project pages. 1 Biodiversity loss is a development issue. A rapid review of the evidence Issue paper From genes … to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. IIED, the International Union for the … ' Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile ' 3 Rural producer agency and agricultural value chains: What role for …
Article, 23 December 2019
A crowd gathers outside to see a presentation
Energy, finance and community business – where is the money?
… Electricity drives economic development. But many small community-level businesses and smallholder farmers in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa need more access to affordable energy … get the energy finance they need to grow, but small businesses in rural communities are still missing out. The uptake of ‘productive use …
Event, 30 November 2020
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Sustainable utilisation of Nigeria’s gas and renewable energy resources - project summary
… region of Nigeria. The objectives of the project are to catalyse the development of natural gas and renewable energy markets and~sustainable community-based energy facilities within and beyond target … energy facilities can provide sufficient power for meeting rural and urban community needs. … Sustainable utilisation of Nigeria’s gas and renewable energy resources …
Publication, 01 January 2008
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Sustaining the multiple functions of agricultural biodiversity
… multiple functions of agricultural biodiversity and its links with rural livelihoods in a range of ecological and economic settings. In the … and livelihood security, production and environmental sustainability, rural development.~The forces which undermine agricultural biodiversity are …
Publication, 01 September 1999
Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)
Biodiversity: a women’s business?
… comes to policymaking.  However, awareness of entrepreneurism among rural women is slowly growing. As part of our series of articles … forest enterprises through a process called Market Analysis and Development (MA&D) .  The MA&D training helps local forest users analyse … enterprises while managing their community forests in a way that is sustainable.  In Cameroon, the CoNGOs project is supporting 10 women-led …
Insight, 29 November 2018
Line of women walking through a field. One carries a basket on her head.
Promoting producer agency in agricultural value chain contracts: peer learning (in a pandemic)
… to a three-day international learning workshop  on sustaining rural producer agency in agricultural value chains, which took place in … Contracts are one-sided because producers do not input into their development. One reason for this is the absence of producer … decisions and private sector conduct for locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture. …
Insight, 16 December 2020
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Forest-wise parks in Mozambique
… concerns over the impact of this trade on Mozambique’s forest and rural development. In 2018, under the China-Africa Forest Governance project, … and IIED coorganised a visit by Mozambican stakeholders to two sustainable forest product processing parks, also referred to as …
Publication, 01 March 2019