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Locally controlled forestry

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work with forest and farm producer organisations, highlighting the importance of grassroots, locally-led forestry management in achieving for climate resilience, food security and improved livelihoods.

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Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED supports just transitions towards locally-controlled forestry that safeguard biocultural heritage, enhance entrepreneurship and improve prosperity within diverse and resilient landscapes

Localising forest-climate action

A programme of work engaging with locally-controlled forestry organisations to upscale effective climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation through the restoration of forest landscape biodiversity

How business and investment pioneers are transforming forest and food supply chains

A series of case studies demonstrating ‘business unusual’ – alternative economic models that challenge existing power dynamics

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Saving our future: investing in locally led diversification for climate resilience and food security. Conference highlights

Publication, 27 October 2022

A wooden fence leads on to a field behind which are trees

From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses

Article, 15 February 2022

A woman wearing a face mask and a visor stands behind a table of vegetables selling her produce.

COVID-19 and forest communities

Active Project

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Unlocking barriers to financing sustainable forest-related SMEs: Lessons from Mozambique and Guatemala

Publication, 01 June 2018

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Cocoa from peasant and Indigenous families – a way to fight climate change

Publication, 01 October 2020

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Unleashing the potential of community forest enterprises in Myanmar

Publication, 01 June 2014

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Democratic forest business models: a harder but more rewarding path

Publication, 01 September 2015

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Securing forest business: A risk management toolkit for locally controlled forest businesses

Publication, 01 March 2016

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Securing the future: Managing risk and building resilience within locally controlled forest businesses

Publication, 01 March 2016

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Community forestry in Cameroon: a diagnostic analysis of laws, institutions, actors and opportunities

Publication, 01 November 2017

Rows of small dishes containing various types of vegetable seeds, including beans and grains

Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change

Insight, 27 September 2019

A trolley load and shelves of cinnamon dry inside a special drying facility

Vietnamese forest and farm producers work towards more resilient livelihoods and landscapes

Insight, 27 May 2019

Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming

Insight, 04 April 2019

The Forest and Farm Facility is now working with Ecuador forest farm producers such as this bamboo production business

Forest and Farm Facility Phase II

Active Project

A Vietnamese man poses in front of buildings and piles of timber

Archive of completed locally-controlled forestry projects

Article, 22 February 2019

Financing forest-related enterprises in ways that reduce both deforestation and poverty is critical to climate action and sustainable development (Photos: K Traumann/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Webinar: Strengthening the effectiveness of private sector engagement in addressing deforestation

Event on 11 April 2018

Cooperative members at the Federation of Cooperatives of the Verapaces nursery in Cobán, Guatemala operate a compost packing machine. FEDECOVERA oversees the production of cardamom, allspice, coffee, tea, cocoa, essential oils, grains and vegetables (Photo: Juan José Ochaeta/FEDECOVERA)

IIED marks international forests day with major new research report and toolkit

News, 21 March 2018

The Forest and Farm Facility Vietnam team displays new forest and farm products and knowledge from work with Forest and Farm Producer Organisation businesses (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests

Insight, 20 March 2018

A water connection to link the Lobé river to Kribi harbour, South Region, Cameroon

LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon

Project

Stands of giant bamboo, in what was once degraded cattle pasture, are ready to be loaded onto trucks (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)

Bamboozled by bamboo?

Insight, 09 December 2016

Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)

IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

Event on 01 September 2016

Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)

Flaming parrots and palmetto palms

Insight, 08 February 2016

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

News, 26 October 2015

Aurelio Fuastino lives near a primary forest in Mozambique. He sees the forest as an important source of many products including medicinal plants. He and other villages have no control over loggers who have been given licenses in the forest (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples

Event on 07 July 2015

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