Items tagged:
Locally controlled forestry
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Madagascar needs agroforestry businesses in its response to climate change
Madagascar’s forests are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion, in an increasingly erratic climate. Agroforestry could be a key part of a response
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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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Archive of completed locally-controlled forestry projects
Forests and livelihoods have been the focus of pioneering work by IIED since the 1980s. This archive page links to past forest projects managed by IIED
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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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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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LandCam: securing land and resource rights and improving governance in Cameroon
Cameroon is revising its land and natural resource laws. This project supports this effort by piloting approaches to improve resource governance in rural areas and by helping citizens participate in the policy reform process
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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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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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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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New network aims to connect locally controlled forest enterprises across Africa
The African Forest Enterprises Connect Network (AFECONET) has been set up to connect and support locally controlled forest and farm producers
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IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
A "Critical Theme" seminar on Tuesday, 7 July looked at the benefits and challenges of locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
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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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Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
Four lessons for successful locally controlled forest enterprises from the Forest Connect workshop in Vietnam
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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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Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
This IIED project aimed to install forest-related targets and indicators into the post-2015 development framework, contributing towards notional goal areas on poverty reduction and equality, economic growth and employment, food security, water and energy, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity
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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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Focusing support for locally controlled forest enterprise
Funding to Forest Connect led to diagnosis of effective investments, clarified our strategy and attracted new members
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How to boost investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico
Greater investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico has potential to bring social, environmental and economic benefits.
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Supporting locally-controlled forest enterprises
Locally-controlled forest enterprises are a key way to protect both forests and the livelihoods of those who live in and around them. But they can be weak and so small that profits are marginal. That’s why IIED is working to strengthen their capacity and organisation.
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Introduction to supporting locally-controlled forestry
IIED’s forest team works with partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America to improve the livelihoods of those who live in and around forests, as well as ensuring that those forests are managed in a fair and sustainable way
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Investing in locally controlled forestry: Where to put scarce money?
As policymakers and donors begin to recognise the value of locally-controlled forest enterprises they will need to decide which of the many possible types of enterprise to support with their scarce resources.
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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?
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Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry
Discussions between investors and forest rights-holders have resulted in new guidance for investments that can create a ‘triple win’ of returns for investors, livelihood security for local communities and protection for forests
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Place forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability
The following IUCN press release is about a report whose lead author is Duncan Macqueen, head of the forest team at IIED (duncan.macqueen@iied.org)
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Local control of forests brings economic, environmental and social gains
Governments and businesses must give local people more control over forests to maximise social, economic and environmental benefits, says a new book by IIED and the G3 — a global network whose members manage a quarter of the world’s forests.
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Locally-controlled sustainable forestry in Brazil faces uphill struggle
History shows the Brazilian state can protect the country's forests. So, can it do more to support locally-managed forestry in the country?
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Communities are protecting Vietnam’s forests, but are they sharing in the benefits yet?
Protecting forests from illegal logging and helping them to flourish is of paramount importance in the fight against climate change. But of equal importance is ensuring that systems of forest management are helping to pull those dependent on forests out of poverty.
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Needed: Local farmers and communities to plant trees in Indonesia
Forests cover almost half of Indonesia’s surface but, because growing new tree plantations and sustainably managing forests has historically not kept pace with the country’s extensive timber proces
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Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
A year ago, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’ seemed like a good title for a blog. Now it seems like an essential way forward if REDD is going to work.
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REDD+: Learning from participatory forest management
As policymakers prepare to discuss REDD+ at UN climate talks in Durban, they should heed the lessons learned from years of experience in participatory forest management across the developing world.
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Delivering REDD+: can past lessons help in tempering optimism and making headway?
The International Year of Forests is celebrating the importance of forests and raising the profile of challenges and opportunities. The perceived value of forests has been raised by the recognition of their role in mitigating climate change. But the International Year of Forests is a momentous reminder that there are still unresolved issues.
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Justice in the forests: a series of short films
A series of short films that ask: who gets to decide about forests? With deforestation causing such havoc for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, it is an important question
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Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
Energy shortages and rising fuel costs are nothing new to the poor in developing countries where 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.4 billion use biomass as their primary cooking and heating fuels. What is new, is the idea that renewable biomass energy itself could enable developing countries to fight poverty and climate change, create jobs and gain energy independence.
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Justice in the forests: Ghana
This film looks at how the Forest Governance Learning Group team in Ghana is exploring solutions to the problem of chainsaw logging
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Justice in the forests: Uganda
This film documents the fight to save a forest reserve from being sold
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Justice in the forests: Vietnam
This short film looks at community forestry in Vietnam
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Justice in the forests: Malawi
This short film, entitled 'Burning issues', looks at charcoal production in Malawi and presents the case for community managed forests
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Forest Connect: championing local forest enterprises
Last week (16–18 February), I joined the Forest Connect alliance at a meeting in Ethiopia to learn from the country’s experience in locally controlled forestry and reaffirm our vision that poverty reduction and forest conservation can go hand in hand if locally controlled forest enterprises can be made profitable and sustainable.
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Lumbering illegality: how to make timber sustainable and pro-poor
The European Union is closing its doors to illegal timber exports. But unless we tackle unsustainable logging to satisfy domestic timber markets, their actions will little benefit forests, or the millions of poor people that live within them. Making timber sustainable requires the use of both trade and climate strategies in unison to bring about locally controlled forestry.
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Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
Who had heard of G3 eighteen months ago? Nobody, because it didn’t exist.Yet an alliance known as The Three Rights Holders Group has had a strong presence at COP 16 in Cancun, manning an information booth and participating in various panels.The group’s message was a simple one, advocating for sustainable forest management and locally controlled forestry as a vital component in any realistic strategy going forward to address climate change mitigation and adaptation.So who is this group and where has it come from?
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Local control is key to the sustainable use of forests
2011 is the International Year of Forests, so here is a link to a new post on IIED's Due South blog by Duncan Macqueen — Tick tock — it’s the year of forests
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Tick tock — it’s the year of forests
The UN has declared 2011 as the international year of forests — although more than a billion forest-dependent poor will probably not see it that way. Spiralling global demand for food, energy, fibre and water spell trouble for these people’s forests.Schemes for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) may have been agreed at last month’s climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, but without locally controlled forestry this, in itself, will not stop the pressure on our forests. If you listen carefully you can still hear the forest clock ticking down…
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A pinch of salt from Namaacha
Strengthening local communities’ rights to and capacity for sustainable forest management is critical to making REDD work in developing countries.
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Turn REDD on its head
National REDD strategies must be based on local, not government, control, say opinion leaders from ten countries in the IIED-facilitated Forest Governance Learning Group.
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Green Shoots and REDD herrings
Forests continue to be trashed in many places. One recent estimate, admittedly ‘on the back-of-an- envelope’, indicates a global natural capital loss of US$2.5 trillion a year, of which forests represent a substantial part. We have all recently become used to hearing about trillions of dollars being wiped off the world’s ‘virtual economy’, but this natural capital is real, and its loss is permanent.
