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Smallholder forest farmers
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Delivering impact: supporting women's voices in Ghana
We supported forest and farm producers in Ghana as they put gender equality at the heart of a new national federation, assisting women producers to get their concerns addressed at the national level
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From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses
In January 2022 a Forest and Farm Facility training event provided a refresher course on two toolkits that have been developed to support practitioners in improving business incubation and risk management processes – plus a new module on 30 practical options to climate-proof your business
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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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Escalating local climate resilience finance
A new IIED report offers 30 practical options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems and calls for an urgent increase in climate finance to and through local organisations
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Getting climate resilience right – the case for backing smallholder organisations: Make Change Happen podcast episode 13
Forest and farm smallholders are fighting for their livelihoods and food security. New research shows producers’ practical measures for climate resilience have impact, but barriers remain to scaling the work up and out. In this ‘super year’ of climate and nature, the latest episode of the Make Change Happen podcast hosts a discussion on what support smallholders need, and who should provide it.
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Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss
Ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June, Estrella Penunia highlights the challenges faced by small-scale women and men farmers in Asia from climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation
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Charting a “path to recovery and wellbeing” on 2021’s International Day of Forests
Guest blogger David Kaimowitz explains why global ambition to restore the world’s forests will only be achieved if the huge potential of forest and farm producers is realised.
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Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
A new report spotlights alternative approaches by which sustainable forest management can deliver more for indigenous people and local communities
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Vietnamese forest and farm producers work towards more resilient livelihoods and landscapes
As the UN launches the Decade of Family Farming, Duncan Macqueen considers the role of the Forest and Farm Facility programme in improving incomes, employment and sustainable agricultural practices for Vietnamese farmers
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Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
Global farmers affirmed the vital relevance of small-holders at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain recently, highlighting how through innovative approaches they will contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals over the next ten years
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Forest and Farm Facility Phase II
The goal of Phase II of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) is to strengthen the organisations of forest and farm producers to deliver climate-resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods
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Mass mobilisation: boosting businesses and protecting forests
As Phase I of the Forest and Farm Facility partnership closes, Duncan Macqueen reflects on its impressive achievements and the role that the mass mobilisation of forest and farm producers has played in its success
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2014: the International Year of Family Farming
See how IIED's work during the International Year of Family Farming helped to raise the profile of family and smallholder farming and its contribution to eradicating hunger, reducing rural poverty and more
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Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
Improving the participation of rural people has been in vogue for years, often with limited success. Here's one scheme that lives up to the hype by involving forest and farm producers on their own terms
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Unleashing the economic power of forest lands through producer organisations
The plan is an outcome of a conference, aptly named 'Strength in numbers', which took
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We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad
Does the treatment of forests at home influence what different donor nations prioritise and support abroad?
