Items tagged:
Community forestry
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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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Harnessing the power of bees to benefit forest and people
To mark the International Day of Forests earlier this week, we’re sharing a story about a beekeeping project that’s helping to conserve Kenya’s Loitokitok forest and support the surrounding community
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Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
Guest blogger Joanes Ooko Odero reports from Kenya on a new tree-planting initiative
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IIED remembers Peter DeMarsh
IIED pays tribute to a leader of family foresters who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on 10 March 2019
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Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference
Researchers into forest livelihoods recently met in Copenhagen to share ideas on how to support forests, sustainable forestry and forest peoples. Duncan Macqueen reports back on some of the highlights
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Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
Duncan Macqueen explains how community forest enterprises in Mexico are already supporting the integrated delivery of the SDGs
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Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
In Myanmar, the National League for Democracy (NLD) is transferring the rights to forest land – and all its potential bounty – to local communities. Duncan Macqueen explains how this important move, supported by peer-to-peer learning, is helping to establish new long-term livelihoods
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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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Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
A recent meeting in Rwanda concluded that enabling investment in business capacity development is vital to get small-scale forest entrepreneurs ready for 'asset investment' – and promote forest landscape restoration at scale
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Bridging the two worlds of carbon forestry
Drones and satellites swirl overhead to monitor our forests. Computers churn out calculations of forest growth, while carbon markets ring up transactions. This is the backdrop to carbon credits that are financing forest conservation. But how do local people fit into this fast-evolving world of technology?
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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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Business incubation motivates fire management
Entrepreneurs from forest communities in Belize are embarking on new businesses ventures, where the products and services come from the forest itself. As well as supporting livelihoods, driving these businesses forward doubles up as an incentive to protect the forests from fire
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Community forest-farm business training under way in Belize
IIED and partners are providing business training to community groups hoping to set up forest-farm enterprises in the pine woodlands of southern Belize. The project aims to promote conservation, community-based fire risk management and just and sustainable use of woodland resources
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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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Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
While many Nepali subsistence farmers happily combine forestry and agriculture on their land, there is little integration between the two sectors in the country’s policy and administration.
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Myanmar: Could an unusual yam help the march of community forestry?
An unlikely sounding tuber could help local farmers achieve a landscape of community forestry in all but name in Myanmar.
