Items tagged:
Mozambique
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Connect: mainstreaming biodiversity information into the heart of government decision making
Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential components of a healthy economy. To achieve truly sustainable development, governments must integrate information about biodiversity and ecosystems services into their decision-making processes.
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Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income
Poverty is often defined by assessing income. But guest bloggers Sam Jones and Inge Tvedten say that using a wider lens can help to understand the social and political mechanisms that help to create and reproduce poverty
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A Chinese passion: adding value to Mozambique's timber exports
Mozambique wants to encourage a timber industry that creates jobs and adds value: Duncan Macqueen visited one Chinese company keen to do just that and saw how an IIED-led project is providing support
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CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South
Can Chinese business engagement ensure sustainability and benefit the poor? Our research suggests complex factors shape their operations – of which Chinese policies play only a minor role
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Five ways to make farming more sustainable
A recent workshop in Mozambique identified five ways to sustainably intensify agriculture. In food insecure countries, large-scale investments are often considered a major driver of agricultural growth, but these can promote monocultures and intensive approaches that damage the environment and progressively decrease soil fertility.
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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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It's time for revolution in forest business
Where will the investment come from to scale up successful locally controlled forestry? That was the question facing participants at a recent South-North Dialogue in Helsinki, Finland
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Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands
Paralegal schemes build citizen power by helping communities develop the knowledge and capacity they need to speak up for themselves. A recent IIED webinar explored how such schemes can best be supported to make a long-term difference
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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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Six nations to share progress on measuring adaptation to climate change
The governments of six countries will share their experiences of assessing the effectiveness and developmental impacts of climate change adaptation, at an international meeting in Kenya on 24-27 March.
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Testing REDD+ in Mozambique
IIED has been helping to facilitate the REDD+ process, a process which aims to reduce emissions and conserve forests, in Mozambique since 2009.
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Private sector involvement with REDD+
IIED worked with partners to understand and document the scale of private sector engagement with REDD+, which aimed to reduce emissions and conserve forests in specific countries.This was achieved by developing a series of national-level case studies, research into opportunities for further private sector engagement and commitments towards zero-deforestation supply chains
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How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
IIED and its partners are developing tailored frameworks to help developing countries evaluate their climate adaptation investments.
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If a tree falls - a short film from the Mozambican forests
Video: short film by Mike and Sam Goldwater offers a tantalising glimpse into the everyday lives of those whose existence and livelihoods are, in one way or another, dependent on the forests.
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South-South REDD: A Brazil-Mozambique Initiative
This project helped to create the conditions for Mozambique to embark upon the implementation of a REDD+ initiative
