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Forest and Farm Facility (FFF)
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Delivering impact: supporting women's voices in Ghana
We supported forest and farm producers in Ghana as they put gender equality at the heart of a new national federation, assisting women producers to get their concerns addressed at the national level
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From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses
In January 2022 a Forest and Farm Facility training event provided a refresher course on two toolkits that have been developed to support practitioners in improving business incubation and risk management processes – plus a new module on 30 practical options to climate-proof your business
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Cities into sinks: storing carbon in wooden architecture to mitigate climate change
IIED and partners are exploring how wooden architecture might expand the forest carbon sink to help mitigate climate change while also incentivising smallholder tree-growing to drive forest landscape restoration
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Escalating local climate resilience finance
A new IIED report offers 30 practical options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems and calls for an urgent increase in climate finance to and through local organisations
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Getting climate resilience right – the case for backing smallholder organisations: Make Change Happen podcast episode 13
Forest and farm smallholders are fighting for their livelihoods and food security. New research shows producers’ practical measures for climate resilience have impact, but barriers remain to scaling the work up and out. In this ‘super year’ of climate and nature, the latest episode of the Make Change Happen podcast hosts a discussion on what support smallholders need, and who should provide it.
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Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss
Ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June, Estrella Penunia highlights the challenges faced by small-scale women and men farmers in Asia from climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation
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Tapioca tech in Togo – how producers are organising to transform lives and land
Togo’s expanding populations need both food and means of generating income. After a recent visit, Duncan Macqueen reflects on how multi-tiered self-organisation is supporting sustainable solutions among tapioca producers
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Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change
Madagascar’s forests are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion, in an increasingly erratic climate. Agroforestry could be a key part of a response
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Vietnamese forest and farm producers work towards more resilient livelihoods and landscapes
As the UN launches the Decade of Family Farming, Duncan Macqueen considers the role of the Forest and Farm Facility programme in improving incomes, employment and sustainable agricultural practices for Vietnamese farmers
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Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
Global farmers affirmed the vital relevance of small-holders at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain recently, highlighting how through innovative approaches they will contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals over the next ten years
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Forest and Farm Facility Phase II
The goal of Phase II of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) is to strengthen the organisations of forest and farm producers to deliver climate-resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods
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Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
IIED's Duncan Macqueen explains the need to increase finance and investment in sustainable forestry and farming for smallholders
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Biodiversity: a women’s business?
Women are among the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the world. What role do their burgeoning forest and farm businesses play in safeguarding biodiversity?
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Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
Duncan Macqueen explains how community forest enterprises in Mexico are already supporting the integrated delivery of the SDGs
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Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II
On 20 July IIED and partners will launch Phase II of the Forest and Farm Facility, the second stage of a highly successful international partnership that is providing support to forest and farm producer organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America
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IIED marks international forests day with major new research report and toolkit
IIED is marking the International Day of Forests (21 March) by issuing two new publications with its Forest and Farm Facility partners that highlight a powerful new approach to strengthening forests and forest producers
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Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
As Phase I of the Forest and Farm Facility partnership closes, Duncan Macqueen reflects on its impressive achievements and the role that the mass mobilisation of forest and farm producers has played in its success
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Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
A recent meeting in Rwanda concluded that enabling investment in business capacity development is vital to get small-scale forest entrepreneurs ready for 'asset investment' – and promote forest landscape restoration at scale
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Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
A new business opportunity could help protect Belize's Yellow-headed parrots and benefit local communities as well
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Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
Ahead of the World Forestry Congress, which opens in Durban next week, Duncan Macqueen asks whether African forests can be saved
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IIED at the XIV World Forestry Congress
IIED and its partners were at this year's World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, from 7-11 September 2015
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Star spice in Vietnam's forests
Business training for farmers in Vietnam is adding spice to their harvest – and encouraging them to form producer organisations to make more from their crop
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IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
A "Critical Theme" seminar on Tuesday, 7 July looked at the benefits and challenges of locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
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Organise to thrive
In the run up to the World Forestry Congress in September 2015, Duncan Macqueen highlights how Forest Farm Facility support to help groups organise is helping forest and farm producers in Guatemala
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Mozambique's forest theatre – how will the play end?
Conscious that speaking at a training event for Mozambican Simple License loggers required some theatrical flourish to hold attention in the sub-tropical heat, Duncan Macqueen took to the stage
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Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
Four lessons for successful locally controlled forest enterprises from the Forest Connect workshop in Vietnam
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Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
In Bolivia, the state is providing support to encourage community organisations to trial innovative new business models that challenge free market norms. Could such new ways of doing business also deliver greater benefits for the planet?
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Forest and Farm Facility Phase I
The Forest and Farm Facility's vision is that smallholders, communities, and indigenous peoples and women's organisations have improved livelihoods and decision-making over forest and farm landscapes
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Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet
Governments, donors and investors must bolster locally-controlled forest businesses if they wish to deliver public goods, support livelihoods and help tackle poverty and climate change, says a new report
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2014: the International Year of Family Farming
See how IIED's work during the International Year of Family Farming helped to raise the profile of family and smallholder farming and its contribution to eradicating hunger, reducing rural poverty and more
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Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
Improving the participation of rural people has been in vogue for years, often with limited success. Here's one scheme that lives up to the hype by involving forest and farm producers on their own terms
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Unleashing the economic power of forest lands through producer organisations
The plan is an outcome of a conference, aptly named 'Strength in numbers', which took
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Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations
Organisations of forest farmers have much to offer society — if they get the support they need from governments, donors, the private sector and NGOs.
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First international gathering of forest producer organisations underway
The representatives of farmer and forest producer organizations from around the world are gathering today at an international conference held in Guilin, China
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Growing Forest Partnerships Initiative
This initiative aimed to build up and support forest stakeholder networks at local, national and international levels
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Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
While many Nepali subsistence farmers happily combine forestry and agriculture on their land, there is little integration between the two sectors in the country’s policy and administration.
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Forest businesses 'fit for life'
Those designing forests businesses that are ‘fit for life’ won’t be taking any inspiration from Doha airport, says one weary blogger.
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We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad
Does the treatment of forests at home influence what different donor nations prioritise and support abroad?
