5 landscape protection stories for International Forest Day
Today is International Day of Forests! To celebrate, we highlight five initiatives that showcase the power of landscape approaches in tackling commodity-driven deforestation. Forests hold the key…
South East Liberia: The power of dialogue to drive commitment to green growth
Participants of a multi-stakeholder dialogue in Sinoe County, South East Liberia, have approved a joint declaration to create a green growth plan for the region. The commitment followed two days…
IDH jurisdictional approaches to mitigate deforestation in WWF report released at COP23
Today, at the UN climate conference COP23 in Bonn, IDH’s landscape work was featured in a report released by WWF on the important role of jurisdictional approaches in achieving sustainable…
The renowned Dutch green development magazine P+ published a detailed article about innovative finance, IDH’s forest program in Liberia and the Andgreen.fund. The translation of the article is here: Nowhere…
A Framework for Community Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
Thesis report commissioned by IDH and carried out at Wageningen University (WUR) developing a framework for community benefit sharing mechanisms (CBSM) for forest conservation in Liberia.
The Oil Palm Outgrower Scheme in Liberia is anchored in the Liberian oil palm concessions, as a joint program between oil palm companies, the government of Liberia (GoL) and the local community with the goal to improve community livelihoods.
The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book, which was launched at the COP21 in Paris, is now available Spanish, making it available for a large audience base, primarily in Latin America, where…
February 9 the IDH Forum DRIVING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES was held in Amsterdam. Designed as a catalyzer for innovative solutions, over 100 high level representatives from 11…
Today NORAD (The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) signed an agreement with IDH to support ISLA in three countries to help delink commodity production from deforestation. The agreement involves funding…
Land use intensification, nature protection, land and customary rights, spatial planning and equitable benefit sharing need to go hand in hand with independent monitoring and supply as well as reputational benefits for companies.