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Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal. Photo: Sajal Sthapit
Forest businesses 'fit for life'
… impressive models of shareholding ownership, structured value chains under local community control, and transparent labour and wage …
Insight, 18 February 2013
CBA12: Key messages
Article, 11 June 2018
The new OpenLandContracts.org database contains the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
Opening up land contracts
Insight, 20 October 2015
Lumbering illegality: how to make timber sustainable and pro-poor
… and partner countries to combat illegal logging and associated trade. Under a VPA, only timber products that have been legally produced will …
Insight, 26 January 2011
Pastoralists pull water from a well near Denan in the Somali Region of Ethiopia for their camels. (Photo: Andrew Heavens, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue
… variable and diverse conditions to lead sustainable livelihoods under increasingly unpredictable conditions due to climate change.       …
Project, 17 December 2012
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… as currently structured, the means of implementation are listed under goal 17 in separate sections according to which of the other 16 …
Insight, 20 June 2014
PLA 44 cover
PLA 44: Local Government and Participation
… and a comprehensive resources section. This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 31 May 2002
Negotiators on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership discuss the treaty in Brussels in May 2015 (Photo: European Parliament, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Investment treaties and citizens' power: lessons from experience
… While it may be too early to assess what approaches work where, and under what conditions, there are already lessons that can be shared. …
Insight, 07 September 2015
Sourcing gender
Insight, 17 November 2010
Group of standing and seated people pose for a photo
CHOICES: community energy in South Africa
… dialogue via expert meetings and engagement. For investors, under-developed communities represented 'base-of-the-pyramid' markets …
Project, 31 October 2010