Forests

With a focus on forests and prosperity, we work to improve livelihoods and justice for those living in and around forests, and ensure forests and biodiversity are managed sustainably in ways that help climate change adaptation and mitigation

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Forestry

Forest governance

Locally controlled forestry

Community forestry

Local organisations

Five women look at a tomato plant in a vegtable plot

Blog

Empowering women forest and farm producers: learning from the best

Isabela Núñez del Prado Nieto
27 March 2023

Blog

How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production

Kata Wagner
20 March 2023

Foggy forest landscape with wooden housing

Project

Scaling up community-led ecosystem-based adaptation in biodiverse forest landscapes in Viet Nam

Began September 2022

Project

Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme

September 2022 - ongoing

Six women in a line bend over soil and crops amid a dusty atmosphere

Case study

Delivering impact: supporting women's voices in Ghana

03 May 2022

A wooden fence leads on to a field behind which are trees

Article

From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses

15 February 2022

A woman farmer bends over in a field of crops in front of forest in the background.

Overview

Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together

04 January 2022

A group of men and women stand around an array of plants on the ground

Article

Archive of completed forest-climate action projects

20 December 2021

Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED supports just transitions towards locally-controlled forestry that safeguard biocultural heritage, enhance entrepreneurship and improve prosperity within diverse and resilient landscapes

Collection

Localising forest-climate action

A programme of work engaging with locally-controlled forestry organisations to upscale effective climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation through the restoration of forest landscape biodiversity

Collection