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Stands of giant bamboo, in what was once degraded cattle pasture, are ready to be loaded onto trucks (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Bamboozled by bamboo?
… 'el buen vivir en los territorios rurales', or 'wellbeing in rural territories'. Since 70-90 per cent of Ecuador's producers are … for the resources they manage, they are often committed to sustainable use of forests and land. Group ownership often leads to … to lead to greater buy-in to the concept and practice of sustainable development.  Duncan Macqueen ([email protected]) is principal …
Insight, 09 December 2016
Mining industry relations to get boost in Ghana
… The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is launching a global series of in-country, … downstream and supporting industries, and it is usually practiced in rural areas, making it an important rural economic and livelihood … resource and incentive to improve ASM's contribution to sustainable livelihoods. Better formalisation policies and the promotion …
News, 10 July 2015
Cover for G03119.pdf
Why the media matters in a warming world: A guide for policymakers in the global South
Publication, 01 June 2011
Cover for G03299.pdf
Conference Issues Paper 1 - Background
… agriculture to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable rural development. Small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of …
Publication, 01 February 2008
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Participatory Land Use Planning as a Tool for Community Empowerment in Northern Tanzania
… international groups of people is threatening to deprive local rural communities of control over and access to the territories and natural resources upon which their livelihoods depend. Development strategies that reconcile emerging conflicts over land and … rights and tenure, are increasingly critical to rural livelihoods and sustainable development. Tanzania has a progressive policy and legal …
Publication, 01 December 2010
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… founder of the 'Mr Forest' company in Mozambique, and a pioneer of sustainable Chinese investment in the country. The four-minute film was … natural resources to China. He is a true pioneer: he has promoted sustainable operating practices, adopted Chinese government guidelines … forestry, developing local processing facilities and improving rural livelihoods. IIED has published a long-form article ' Finding a …
News, 21 August 2018
Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
… at the UN Biodiversity conference is whether to adopt new guidance on sustainable wildlife management. These are practices that sustain … Endangered Species (CITES) for example, has only recently – via its Rural Communities Working Group – taken steps to get communities … to be discussed by parties. This has included, most recently, the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.  …
Insight, 20 November 2018
Dlonguebougou, is a village of 1,500 people in the commune of N'Koumandougou, on the northern edge in central Mali (Image: Google Maps)
Long-term change in the Malian Sahel: portrait of Dlonguebougou village
Project, 14 August 2017
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
Insight, 15 December 2016
Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming
… exchanges Opperman described how MOST, utilising a market systems development approach, worked to help farmers overcome obstacles to … Future EPIC webinars will explore other strategies through which rural producers can strengthen their position in relation to other value … sector conduct in favour of bottom-up, locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture. EPIC is funded by UK …
Insight, 13 November 2018