Items tagged:
Forestry
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Strengthening producer organisations is key to making finance inclusive and effective
IIED's Duncan Macqueen explains the need to increase finance and investment in sustainable forestry and farming for smallholders
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Biodiversity: a women’s business?
Women are among the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the world. What role do their burgeoning forest and farm businesses play in safeguarding biodiversity?
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Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests
Chinese companies can help Mozambique conserve country’s threatened forests, writes Duncan Macqueen
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Webinar: Strengthening the effectiveness of private sector engagement in addressing deforestation
Join our webinar on 11 April 2018 to discuss innovative ways to channel and leverage finance to forest-related enterprises
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IIED marks international forests day with major new research report and toolkit
IIED is marking the International Day of Forests (21 March) by issuing two new publications with its Forest and Farm Facility partners that highlight a powerful new approach to strengthening forests and forest producers
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Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises
IIED has partnered with LTS International to carry out an Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises to generate learning from the Forest Investment Program
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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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Sustainable investment in African forest resources highlighted at China-Africa event
Chinese and African stakeholders met in Mozambique to discuss how to protect Africa's forest resources and ensure that Chinese investment generates benefits for local African economies
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Shaping the future of forest and farm landscapes in Africa
As part of a new interdisciplinary partnership, IIED will be working with sector experts, scientists and practitioners to better understand and manage the growing competition for land in Sub-Saharan Africa, as governments seek to balance food production with forest conservation targets
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How much can the eyes in the sky really tell us about deforestation?
A recent study by the University of Edinburgh and IIED reveals the limitations of remote sensing technology to monitor the impacts of agriculture expansion on forests in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bamboozled by bamboo?
A workshop in Ecuador heard how a new toolkit is helping practitioners get to grips with risk in locally controlled forest and farm business
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Remembering Duncan Poore, a leading light in sustainable forestry
Duncan Poore, who died on 22 March, 2016, was a botanist, conservationist, forester and ecologist. He is widely heralded as a key shaper of the policies and practises that underpin conservation and sustainable forest management across the world. His long and distinguished career included a period as senior research fellow at IIED, where he established the Forest and Land Use programme
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IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
IIED and its partners will be at this year's World Conservation Congress in Hawai'i from 1-10 September 2016
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Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
Could innovative local organisations working with forests, together with the Paris climate agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and global financial crisis help deliver us into a post-capitalist era
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Flaming parrots and palmetto palms
A new business opportunity could help protect Belize's Yellow-headed parrots and benefit local communities as well
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The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
How can we minimise monitoring costs and make sure that money intended for local "development" ends up with the people who need it?
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Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
While world leaders worked towards a new global climate change agreement at COP21 in Paris, 51 practitioners, policymakers and researchers met at a two-day IIED workshop about REDD+ to discuss the key role forests can play in climate change mitigation
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Food demand and forests in sub-Saharan Africa
With the support of country partners, IIED is conducting research to better understand existing and future competition and trade-offs between food production and natural forests, and the implications for land use policies in sub-Saharan Africa
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Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
Ahead of the World Forestry Congress, which opens in Durban next week, Duncan Macqueen asks whether African forests can be saved
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Organise to thrive
In the run up to the World Forestry Congress in September 2015, Duncan Macqueen highlights how Forest Farm Facility support to help groups organise is helping forest and farm producers in Guatemala
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Integration: will the UN Forum on Forests lead the way?
Ahead of the UN Forum on Forests meeting in New York, IIED’s Jonathan Reeves argues that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals – particularly for forests – depends upon integration and compromise and asks whether the political will exists to lay aside egos and break down institutional barriers
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Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
In Bolivia, the state is providing support to encourage community organisations to trial innovative new business models that challenge free market norms. Could such new ways of doing business also deliver greater benefits for the planet?
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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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Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya
Kenya needs to fix a wood demand-supply gap of 12 million m³ per year. So the launch of the Forest Farm Facility in Nariobi on 6 November was timely
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Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
A UN working group has drafted targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which will expire next year. IIED's assessment finds a strong set of targets, but also trade-offs and missing issues
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New roadmap for boosting small-scale and family forest producers
30 June 2014, Rome – Indigenous peoples, local communities and private smallholders own or manage a growing proportion of the world's forests and can play a significant role in tac
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Four ways to support locally controlled forestry and benefit people and the planet
Governments, donors and investors must bolster locally-controlled forest businesses if they wish to deliver public goods, support livelihoods and help tackle poverty and climate change, says a new report
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Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
Nepal has begun to assess the potential harm and benefits of the compensation scheme for protecting forests
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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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Why community 'based' adaptation to climate change is not enough
Proponents of community-based adaptation to climate change need to put communities in the driving seat, says Anju Sharma
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Random trials in Uganda to show if payments for ecosystems services really work
To assess whether a promising approach to reduce poverty and conserve forests in Uganda really works, we need to use a randomised controlled trial, says Paul Hatanga.
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Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
Next year, new Sustainable Development Goals will set our trajectory into an increasingly uncertain future. But country delegations are arguing over the wrong thing
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REDD+: 3 things to consider so men and women share the benefits
Linking commodities that drive deforestation with gender offers great opportunities that capitalise on the advantages of different actors
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Platform set for China-Africa forest governance action
A new partnership builds bridges between African and Chinese stakeholders to strengthen governance of forests.
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Fairer by Far: Multi-functional mosaics for public goods
Smallholder forest-farms are increasingly coming into competition with large-scale investors. Global demand for food, feed, fuel and fibre products is putting a squeeze on forested land.
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Investing in sustainable productivity could secure REDD+ schemes long term
Putting less emphasis on carbon payments and more on supporting sustainable enterprise could give REDD+ projects longer-term financial security.
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Four Fs can connect communities and corporations for sustainable outcomes
Connecting plans for producing food, fuel, fibre and forests can help smallholder farmers and large companies work together towards sustainable development -- but this is rarely done, say researchers who hope to address this.
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REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
Land is cheap and is perceived to be abundant in Africa. A scramble for its land, following the food and fuel crisis three years ago, is on. European and North American companies have been acquiring land to grow export and biofuel crops and to supply their need for pulp and paper. Now they’re being joined by newly emerging economies – in particular Brazil, India and China – which are also increasingly acquiring large tracts of land and searching for other natural resources, in particular water and minerals.
