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A Subanen harvest dance during a colourful street dancing competition of Kinabayo Festival. Community action by the Subanen tribe in Midsalip prevents mining companies from encroaching their land (Photo: Mark Navales/Google Licence)
Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
… farmland and other natural resources is increasing pressures on land for millions of rural citizens, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin … run by our legal tools for citizen empowerment programme , discussed what works best.  Success stories  Speakers included Carl Cesar … Land acquisitions and rights …
Insight, 14 October 2014
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… is the predominant form of agriculture in the food production sector. What future for family farming? With more than 500 million family farms farming … food security in the face of climate change. Our legal tools team works with practitioners who are developing innovative approaches to …
Article, 22 April 2014
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… A year ago, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’ seemed like a good title for a blog. Now it seems like an essential way forward if REDD is going … to those who do things to reduce emissions from their forest land use won’t work. And maybe the money won’t materialise anyway because those potentially paying know it won’t work. But what if we could target investment both to secure local rights and …
Insight, 30 November 2011
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Tested tools for righting resource wrongs
… Conflict over forests, land and other natural resources is an increasingly bloody reality in … to activist Chut Wutty's murder in 2012 could improve the prospects for land justice . At the heart of these conflicts and the opportunities … today. It then shows how readers can identify their objectives and what actions they can take to overcome the challenges they face. It …
Insight, 14 October 2013
Three women holding a sack of rice between them.
Seeking cheaper, better quality rice: the cooperative rice distribution project in Jakarta
… planning a new series of blogs on this theme with the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) . This is the first of these – and it … for the poor which buys and distributes inexpensive rice during what it deems to be periods of greater need. But that rice is of very … cooperative members without any subsidy.  How the rice distribution works Buying the rice from the farmers:  the capital we use to buy the …
Insight, 25 May 2022
The road from Lomié in Southeast Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Cameroon's real indomitable lions are in the forest
… prefer the traditional móngulu huts with their cavernous leaf domes.  For more than 20 years, a range of NGOs friendly to the Baka people have … tenure – a fight that continues – many Baka communities are asking 'what next?'. How can they work with their forests to improve their … vernacular).  Similar market obstacles in other countries where CoNGO works (the Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, DRC and Gabon) …
Insight, 20 March 2017
people sit as desks looking forward at photos pinned on a wall.
Rainfall, grazing, families and land in Dlonguebougou
… I had done my PhD fieldwork from 1980-82, to explore the evolution of land use, changes in livelihoods, and impacts of climate change. Having … Changes to farm practice I am struck by the rapid conversion of land for farming. The University of Southampton's GeoData created a stunning … members of the women's association to look at the photos and think what they might mean for the future. Some said they should invest in …
Insight, 09 November 2016
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… Cities occupy only 0.5 per cent of the world's land but account for an estimated 70 per cent of economic activity, over … different elements of the agenda. Discussion at the event focused on what Habitat III might deliver.   Habitat comes along just once every 20 …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
… in producing food . Many of them are small-scale African farmers. What needs to be done at micro, meso and macro levels to improve their … Africa are women – they contribute 70% of food production and account for nearly half of all farm labour (such as cultivation, weeding, … Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food What works for women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and …
Insight, 05 April 2012
Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)
Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
… What do you see, when you see a forest? If we protect forests, we gain … more resilient against natural disasters, and offer a haven for biodiversity. This long list of benefits is important to remember as … priority conditions: Equitable rights to control, own and access land, property and natural resources Inclusive decision-making processes …
Insight, 04 November 2014