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Commercial logging in Tengchong, China. Photo: Simon Lim
Supporting locally-controlled forest enterprises
… critical intervention points to help them. Shared learning has been a key feature of our work, where together with the UN Food and Agriculture … forest enterprises lack the power to get a fair deal in markets or to improve the business environment in their favour. A core … Sustainable markets …
Article, 11 September 2013
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Certified cocoa: scaling up farmer participation in West Africa
… in the cocoa-producing countries of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. A key focus of the paper is on reaching unorganised farmers, as the vast … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 November 2012
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… sure they get the recognition they deserve as innovators for a more sustainable future.  Family farming involves almost 1.5 billion people … farmers live. Almost all forest-dependent people are family farmers, key to managing much of the world’s remaining biodiverse natural … Business support for different types of agribusiness – access to markets and marketing Financial service provision – from setting up …
Insight, 04 April 2019
A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.
Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
… She works every morning picking flowers, which are sent to flower markets and sold for weddings, festivals and as prayer offerings in … links with more than one employer offering different forms of work is key to this resilience.  They express anxiety about the uncertainty of …
Article, 06 June 2022
IIED mourns the death of much-loved colleague Ivan Bond
… project Water ecosystem services and poverty under climate change: key issues and research priorities Incentives to sustain forest … lessons for REDD Fair deals for watershed services in South Africa Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas in Cambodia Payments for … Sustainable markets …
News, 04 March 2010
A shoal of fish; marine issues were among the focus of the international seminar
International seminar to demonstrate economic value of marine and coastal ecosystem services
… in the Radisson Hotel in San José, Costa Rica. It brought together key stakeholders from civil society, international organisations, the … Sustainable markets …
News, 04 September 2014
Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… with other benefits such as food or training, for example — will be key to a scheme's success. Ugandan researchers Justine Namaalwa and … benefits. Still missing are national PES systems and international markets for ecosystem services that enable rural communities to sell the … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 28 March 2014
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… KS: In most of the project communities, women played a key role in saving and selecting the seeds of traditional crops, greater … in sustaining traditional knowledge and agrobiodiversity that support sustainable agricultural practices and innovations. In many cases, these … yields, but also increase resilience, improve nutrition, enhance markets and reduce labour: this multifunction dimension is crucial for …
Article, 18 October 2018
MMSD – working papers
… legal and institutional frameworks No. 4 Information availability: a key to building trust in the minerals sector (review of systems for … and resources development No. 22 The community health dimension of sustainable development in developing countries No. 24a The life cycle … of mining industry professionals No. 40 Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development: the links to trade and investment rules No. 41 …
Article, 04 March 2009
IIED's Essam Yassin Mohammed directs questions to UCL senior lecturer Peter Jones on Marine Protected Areas (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: Governing Marine Protected Areas
… with UCL's Peter Jones from IIED Exploring the argument that the key to social-ecological resilience is through diversity, both of … He employed a novel governance analysis framework to address some key questions:  How can top-down and bottom-up approaches to MPA … at Tufts University, on 20 May focusing on the private sector and sustainable business practices. Her full presentation on "What would …
Event, 06 October 2014