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> Natural Resources research group

Anna Bolin

Senior researcher, Natural Resources

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Expertise

Community forest management and forest tenure systems in tropical forest countries; the role of forest and farm organisations and networks in strengthening local rights to resources and achieving sustainable development at the local level; REDD+ negotiations in the UNFCCC and at the level of country implementation; impact of global forest risk commodities on tropical deforestation. Particular experience in Africa and South East Asia.

Before IIED

Project manager, Global Canopy Programme, Oxford, UK.

Current work

Improving local rights and livelihoods by strenghtening the capacity of local forest and farm producer organisations to organise themselves around products, markets and policy. Researching the challenges small scale forestry enterprises face and what the enabling conditions are that will allow locally controlled forest enterprises to develop and become successfull, and the benefits of this alternative rural development model. Other research areas includes the impact of Chinese investment on Africa's forest, looking at land use sectors such as forestry, mining, infrastructure and agriculture and what the options are for improving these for long-term sustainable development.

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Telephone: 
+44 0(2)0 3463 7399
Email: 
anna.bolin@iied.org
Twitter: @annabolin1
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Languages: English, French

Anna Bolin's projects

A woman carries firewood in the rainforest

CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests

Project, Aug 2016
Group of participants stand for a picture during the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013.

Forest Connect

Project, Sep 2013

Latest publications

Résoudre les conflits fonciers par le dialogue : leçons aux marges d’une aire protégée du Cameroun

Can collective intellectual property rights preserve culture and biodiversity?

Can collective intellectual property rights preserve culture and biodiversity?

Women’s empowerment through collective action: How forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference

Remote forest producers: reaping the benefits of collective action

Producteurs forestiers en zones reculées : récolter les fruits de l’action collective

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Anna Bolin's blog posts

Baka women collecting non-timber forest products in Nomedjoh, Cameroon (Photo: Indra Van Gisbergen)

Biodiversity: a women’s business?

Blog, Nov 2018
Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)

Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two

Blog, Feb 2015

Links to other sites

Innovations towards prosperity emerging in locally controlled forest business models and prospects for scaling up

World Development, August 2018

 
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