Forests are under the spotlight as never before. They are globally important in regulating climate and locally important in sustaining communities and supporting biodiversity. But with unsustainable logging, and agriculture and biofuel producers competing for land, forests, and the people who depend on them, are under increasing pressure.
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Visualizing Sustainable Landscapes
IUCN’s visualizing sustainable landscapes is a manual aimed to support the environmental community who is using visualization techniques to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas when dealing with conservation and development situations. The manual contains various visualization techniques that will facilitate communication among various stakeholders from different ethnic groups, with different levels of educations and literacy and different needs. …
25 Sep 2013 | Downloads - publication
IUCN in Ghana Releases New REDD+ Documentary
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) “Towards Pro-Poor REDD+” project in Ghana recently released a 30-minute documentary, profiling how Ghana’s efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are addressing climate change and the needs of the poor. …
14 Sep 2013 | Video
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REDD+ & Gender in Cameroon
REDD+ & Gender in Cameroon. Ms. Momdje Liliane, from the Association Jeunesse Verte Cameroon explains how REDD+ can support the crucial role that women play in forest conservation in Cameroon. …
13 Sep 2013 | Video
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REDD+ in Ghana's Wassa Amenfi West District
REDD+ in Ghana's Wassa Amenfi West District …
12 Sep 2013 | Video
Publication of Forests and Gender - available for download
Forest and Gender by IUCN in collaboration with Women’s environment and Development Organization (WEDO), USA Edited by Lorena Aguilar, Andrea Quesada-Aguilar and Daniel D.M.P. Shaw …
12 Sep 2013 | Downloads - publication
Review of Poverty Reduction in the Doi Mae Salong Landscape Project
Between 2007 and 2010, IUCN’s Thailand Programme implemented a project in Doi Mae Salong (DMS), Chiang Rai Province, in collaboration with the Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTAF) and other partners. This project was part of IUCN’s global Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS). …
29 Aug 2013 | Downloads - publication
IUCN and The Forests Dialogue Latest REDD+ Benefit Sharing Discussion Summary Report Now Available
The Co-chairs’ summary report highlights key issues, questions, conclusions and next steps related to REDD+ Benefit Sharing mechanisms, discussed by an international group of experts at the latest scoping dialogue on REDD+ benefit sharing. …
07 Aug 2013 | Downloads - publication
IUCN’s REDD+ Landscape Restoration Project Launches in Ghana and Mexico
With US$6.2 million in funding from Norway’s Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Ghana and Mexico are the first of four countries to kick off activities under IUCN’s “Advancing REDD+” project, which focuses on mobilizing private investment for community-based, carbon-intensive landscape restoration. …
26 Jul 2013 | Article
Improving access to forest resources
It is commonly claimed that forest tenure reform that provides rural people with rights to access and use of forest resources can contribute to improved forest management and poverty alleviation. But, at least with respect to poverty alleviation, there are few experiences with formal forest tenure reform that have demonstrated this to date. …
23 Jul 2013 | Downloads - publication
Rethinking economics, markets and incentives
Based on a review of the experiences gained during the course of LLS, this paper documents insights and lessons about using markets and incentives to strengthen forest landscapes and livelihoods. It aims to interrogate just what a ‘landscape approach’ means in economic terms, to identify how markets can be used to generate incentives to share forest benefits more equitably and sustainably, and to highlight which kinds of approaches and ‘packages’ of interventions can assist in this. …
22 Jul 2013 | Downloads - publication
