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The Forests Dialogue (TFD)
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Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"
As the mining sector gathers for the annual Indaba meeting, Steve Bass suggests that ongoing purposeful dialogue could make a big difference in tackling the problems facing the artisinal mining sector
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Reducing forest footprints
The Reducing Forest Footprints project aimed to reduce incentives for deforestation and the forest footprint of agricultural commodities
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The Forests Dialogue
IIED is active in The Forests Dialogue, which is an international multi-stakeholder programme designed to spur collaborative action on high-priority issues facing the world's forests
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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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Four Fs can connect communities and corporations for sustainable outcomes
Connecting plans for producing food, fuel, fibre and forests can help smallholder farmers and large companies work together towards sustainable development -- but this is rarely done, say researchers who hope to address this.
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Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry
Discussions between investors and forest rights-holders have resulted in new guidance for investments that can create a ‘triple win’ of returns for investors, livelihood security for local communities and protection for forests
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Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
Who had heard of G3 eighteen months ago? Nobody, because it didn’t exist.Yet an alliance known as The Three Rights Holders Group has had a strong presence at COP 16 in Cancun, manning an information booth and participating in various panels.The group’s message was a simple one, advocating for sustainable forest management and locally controlled forestry as a vital component in any realistic strategy going forward to address climate change mitigation and adaptation.So who is this group and where has it come from?
