Call for proposal! Grants available for forest & farm producers organizations (FFPOs) to ⬆️ farm forestry, landscape based production & market driven businesses.

Priority: linking FFPOs with SMEs for enhanced production and market access

Apply here: shorturl.at/cmruB

Staggering investments by smallholders to simply carve out a living in a changing climate answered by 'drop-in-the-ocean' adaptation funding pledges by the rich causing the climate catastrophe. Great work by IIED colleagues shining the light on this massive, pressing injustice.

The recent conference in Sokodé emphasized the crucial role of FAPOs in restoring forest landscapes in Africa. Let's collaborate for a green and sustainable future! 🌳For more: bitly.ws/WfPV #forestfarmfacility

Advancing #genderequity through global rural women producers’ exchange platform 👩🏾‍🦱🧕🏽👩🏿

👉🏾Check the online dialogue series for women-led or majority women producer organizations iied.org/advancing-gend… IIED #ForestFarmFacility

Interested in building sustainable forest and farm-based smallholder businesses ? 🌳👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💵

Follow the market analysis and development (MA&D) training course available online by IIED and #ForestFarmFacility

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If you have conservation scientists in your network PLEASE share. We're recruiting two permanent research/teaching positions. Bangor University is a fabulous place to live & work. Join us! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php.en…

What an amazing event...loved to see so many different actors of the Tanzanian HIVE value chain come out and present, discuss, strategise...

Innovations by smallholders provide a powerful counternarrative to commoditisation and monoculture by big business. Read about it in my blog: iied.org/how-innovative…

Local leadership is a gamechanger for climate action but getting money to this level needs more evidence of impact and practical tools. In 2022, IIED provided the tools to take action to support local leadership.

Find out more: iied.org/action-impact-…

Smallholder farms produce over 30% of the world’s food supply on 24% of its gross agricultural area.

And not only are they more productive, they also tend to have greater agrobiodiversity.

Read how greater diversification can lead to climate resilience: iied.org/diversificatio…

BLOG: Greater diversification in our food systems is a global priority for #ClimateAction , nature conservation and food security, says ben.eth --> iied.org/diversificatio…

Greater recognition, rights & and finance must empower smallholder groups.

#ForestFarmFacility

Very proud of this work on how smallholder organisations innovate to diversify and market through sustainability and biocultural labelling.

We are hiring again! Experience in forest business development? In doing forestry/development research in Africa? Come and join our small, supportive and engaged team! jobs.iied.org/IIED/JobDescri…

Forest & farm producer organizations can unleash the leadership & entrepreneurial potential of Indigenous Peoples & local communities, Food and Agriculture Organization’s Ewald Rametsteiner tells #ForestFarmFacility Saving our future conference

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IIED IUCN Forest and Grassland Food and Agriculture OrganizationVietNam

Esther Penunia Asian Farmers (AFA) proudly presenting forest products ftlm Laos. #forestfarmfacility #diversity #resilience

#HappeningNow International Conference in Hanoi 🇻🇳“Saving our Future: Investing in locally-led diversification for climate resilience and food security” organized by #VietNamFarmersUnion and the #ForestFarmFacility
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Today: #ForestFarmFacility & #VietnamFarmersUnion host an international conference:

Saving our future: Investing in locally-led diversification for climate resilience & food security

✅ bit.ly/3pKFGVR

IIED IUCN Forest and Grassland AgriCord FAO Viet Nam

Climate finance needs rethinking to reach #IndigenousPeoples directly and support them as guardians of the world’s forests

Food and Agriculture Organization’s Sophie Grouwels and Jhony Zapata explain more in this IISD SDGs op ed for #IndigenousPeoples Day.

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#WeAreIndigenous