Researchers into forest livelihoods recently met in Copenhagen to share ideas on how to support forests, sustainable forestry and forest peoples. Duncan Macqueen (Principal researcher, IIED) reports back on some of the highlights. Envious glances accompanied my departure to Copenhagen for the 4th annual meeting of FLARE (Forests & Livelihoods:...

Climate change. Hunger. Poverty. These enormous global challenges and our search for solutions dominate the headlines daily. In countries from Ecuador to Ghana to Viet Nam, smallholder forest and farm producers, including women, youth and indigenous people, are organizing themselves to find practical answers to these challenges. And it is...

In a global partnership between FAO, IIED, IUCN and Agricord, the second phase of Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) was launched on Tuesday in Kathmandu, Nepal. There were more than 70 participants in attendance, which included high-level representation of the Minister of Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE), the Chairperson...

14/09/2018 El Ministerio de Desarrollo Rural y Tierras (MDRyT) lanza la segunda fase de la iniciativa Mecanismo para Bosques y Fincas (FFF), con el objetivo de apoyar a las organizaciones de productores forestales y agrícolas a mejorar sus medios de vida y abrir mercados para su producción. Esta iniciativa da continuidad...

Mexico’s forests laws mean that 60% of its forests are owned by communities; the country has more than 2,000 community forest enterprises in total. Why Mexico is backing community forestry – and how community groups are ‘Scaling up locally controlled forest enterprises’ – were the topic and title of a workshop...