Items tagged:
Forest governance
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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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Truly transformative change is key to combating the biodiversity crisis
For the Convention on Biological Diversity’s new post-2020 framework to be effective – and not more empty rhetoric – governance needs more attention
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New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
IIED has released two new films highlighting initiatives to improve the sustainability of Chinese investments in Africa. The films are part of a wider effort to reach Chinese and international audiences with messages about sustainability, good governance and local livelihoods
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China-Africa forest governance strengthened with Cameroon event
An innovative multi-stakeholder event discussing Chinese trade and investment impacting Africa's forests will take place in Yaoundé, Cameroon from 22-25 June
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China-Africa Forest Governance project
Improving evidence, capacity and joint action for sustainable Chinese investment in Africa's forests
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Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
This IIED project aimed to install forest-related targets and indicators into the post-2015 development framework, contributing towards notional goal areas on poverty reduction and equality, economic growth and employment, food security, water and energy, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity
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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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Forest Governance Learning Group
The Forest Governance Learning Group aims to connect forest-dependent people who are marginalised from forest governance with those who control it
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Just forest governance
The way forests are governed is crucial for affecting how local people benefit from forests. IIED helps secure local communities’ commercial rights to forests by using a ‘learning group approach’, which emphasises sharing tools and tactics that have worked. At the same time, we also look at measures to reduce demand for agricultural and forest products that result in deforestation or degradation.
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Introduction to locally-controlled forestry
Worldwide, 1.3 billion people rely on forests for their food, energy and livelihoods. Forest-dependent communities are especially vulnerable to the effects of global forest losses. How can we support forest communities and ensure equitable and sustainable forest management?
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Good forest governance is key to reducing climate change and poverty
World Forest Day last week focused international attention on the urgency of better managing forests for food, fuel, climate change and natural disaster responses at a time when the stakes have never been higher
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Sanity in REDD governance shock!
When it comes to forest governance — who gets to decide what about forests — REDD is a pleasant dream for some, a nightmare for others. I think it is depends on how you see the money and the leverage.
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Justice in the forests: a series of short films
A series of short films that ask: who gets to decide about forests? With deforestation causing such havoc for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, it is an important question
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Justice in the forests: Ghana
This film looks at how the Forest Governance Learning Group team in Ghana is exploring solutions to the problem of chainsaw logging
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Justice in the forests: Uganda
This film documents the fight to save a forest reserve from being sold
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Justice in the forests: Vietnam
This short film looks at community forestry in Vietnam
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Justice in the forests: Malawi
This short film, entitled 'Burning issues', looks at charcoal production in Malawi and presents the case for community managed forests
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Nepal: space to debate, opportunities to act
A first visit to a country is often the time when we ‘see’ the most, and our recent brief visit to Nepal certainly afforded some lasting impressions. High Himalayan ranges glistening in the sun contrasting with the air pollution and traffic congestion of Kathmandu; immense cultural, religious and architectural wealth side by side with acute poverty; roads without streetlights or traffic lights, and shops in the city centre lit by candles, (power cuts were increased from 12 to 14 hours per day during our visit).
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Lumbering illegality: how to make timber sustainable and pro-poor
The European Union is closing its doors to illegal timber exports. But unless we tackle unsustainable logging to satisfy domestic timber markets, their actions will little benefit forests, or the millions of poor people that live within them. Making timber sustainable requires the use of both trade and climate strategies in unison to bring about locally controlled forestry.
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A pinch of salt from Namaacha
Strengthening local communities’ rights to and capacity for sustainable forest management is critical to making REDD work in developing countries.
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Turn REDD on its head
National REDD strategies must be based on local, not government, control, say opinion leaders from ten countries in the IIED-facilitated Forest Governance Learning Group.
