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Oscar Simanto, one of the founders of the African Forest Enterprises Connect Network (AFECONET), connect forest and farm producers across Africa (Image: IIED)
New network aims to connect locally controlled forest enterprises across Africa
… to successful locally controlled forest (LCF) enterprises at the World Forestry Congress in Durban. The new IIED publication includes 19 case studies of …
News, 26 October 2015
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… become used to hearing about trillions of dollars being wiped off the world’s ‘virtual economy’, but this natural capital is real, and its … this forest loss, and cutting across the seven themes of the Congress, we see some old and well-known forest problems that are yet to … opportunities which make the work of all who are trying to improve forestry more vital than ever before. Old problems are still with us – …
Insight, 15 October 2009
The star anise fruit resembles stars: the Thach Ngoa group has five hectares of Illicium verum trees ready for harvest (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Star spice in Vietnam's forests
… An early target for presenting lessons from this work is the World Forestry Congress to be held in Durban in September. FFF hopes to see you there. …
Insight, 05 August 2015
Logging truck in Cameroon. Credit: World Resources Institute (Creative Commons)
What’s missing from private-sector REDD+?
… we reviewed have not involved businesses in the agriculture, mining, forestry and energy sectors that are active in the project areas. By … IIED's Natural Resources Group. She will present this research at the World Agroforestry Congress, in India on 10-14 February 2014. ( [email protected] ) …
Insight, 29 January 2014
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?
… Erin Sills, senior associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in 2011, "then any other intervention is … measures of success", it asks? This lack of evidence led the IUCN World Conservation Congress to pass a resolution last year calling for a critical review of …
Insight, 04 February 2014
Green economics – surviving the trial
… NGOs, the UN Environment Programme and the International Trade Union Congress itself shows the wide range of sectors getting engaged in green … evening’s discussion. However, despite growing interest around the world, green economics has yet to leap the chasm that divides it from … in Kiboga and Mubende districts of Uganda by the Ugandan National Forestry Authority to make way for a New Forests Company (NFC) …
Insight, 17 November 2011
Q&A: climate negotiations
… groups are essentially one hundred of the poorest countries in the world, with a total population of one billion people. These are the … plight and their issues. Q. Scientists at the recent international congress in Copenhagen have prepared a summary statement of their … put that money into a fund that would go to adaptation as well as forestry and various other good things as well. The Least Developed …
Article, 17 March 2009