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Investing in locally controlled forestry
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Protecting Cameroon's forests: a fishy business?
Projects that invest in more efficient fish smoking businesses are improving livelihoods and conserving mangrove forests on Cameroon's coastline. Valuable lessons in forest protection can be taken from the coast, deep into the country's rainforests.
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Cameroon's real indomitable lions are in the forest
A planning mission to Cameroon's community forests by the CoNGOs project team found the Baka people brimming with business ideas, but needing a little help from their friends
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Investing in locally controlled forestry – a planetary-scale solution for forests and people
Smallholder farmers who live in and around tropical forests are critical to protecting forest landscapes
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CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests
CoNGOs is an IIED-led UK consortium that aims to achieve improved governance and practice in equitable and sustainable community forestry livelihoods in the Congo Basin
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Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
Could innovative local organisations working with forests, together with the Paris climate agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and global financial crisis help deliver us into a post-capitalist era
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New network aims to connect locally controlled forest enterprises across Africa
The African Forest Enterprises Connect Network (AFECONET) has been set up to connect and support locally controlled forest and farm producers
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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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Nurturing the next generation of foresters
IIED's Geraldine Warren has joined the social reporting team for the World Forestry Congress in Durban. Her first blog looks at the importance of including young people in efforts to conserve forests
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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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Saving the forests for last – in the hope, at last, of saving the forests
The Sustainable Development Goals must not only mention saving the world's forests, but also explain how to do this.
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Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
Next year, new Sustainable Development Goals will set our trajectory into an increasingly uncertain future. But country delegations are arguing over the wrong thing
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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.
