Forests newsletter

Focusing on gender

At IIED, the Forest Team have been looking at how natural resource and climate change policies are including and acting on gender. Within the project Inclusive REDD+, we are analysing how issues related to rights, power and equity are streamlined in the strategy options for REDD+. We particularly focus on value chain analysis as an instrument to help us understand the role that men and women play in commodities associated with deforestation and forest degradation. A recent IIED meeting on gender and environmental change shared experiences on the different dimensions of gender in REDD+. For more details, view the presentations from Isilda Nhantumbo of IIED, Delia Catucacan of ICRAF and Andrea Quesada-Aguilar of WEDO.   

From dispute to dialogue

This Reflect & Act describes how entrenched arguments give way to collaboration in The Forests Dialogue, and highlights lessons learnt from the project.


 

Multi-stakeholder governance strengthens sustainable livelihoods in Bosawás, Nicaragua

Forest resources are under high pressure and land rights are often contested in Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, while the sheer number of public institutions, political and community authorities, private companies and producer organisations makes natural resource management a challenge. 

Eduardo Mondlane Universidade, Mozambique

IIED’s Forest Team has worked with the Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry at Mozambique’s oldest university, the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, since 2009. Most recently on the Testing REDD+ project, based in the Beira Corridor of Mozambique, UEM have been analysing threats to forest cover, mapping the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and assessing biodiversity and carbon stocks of the different forest types in the region.