Publications
Climate resilience is an increasingly pressing need in forest and farm landscapes. Rural communities in the global South are hard hit by temperature extremes, variable rainfall, droughts, fires, storms, flooding,...
Organising smallholders into producer groups is the key to help successfully commercialise their wood products. Yet sustaining the operation of such organisations is challenging. In Viet Nam in 2016–2018, there...
Published by the Center for International Forestry Research, this Sustainable Woodfuel Brief gives an overview of the development of charcoal producer associations in Kenya and Zambia, with key lessons learned...
12/10/2021
The report reviews the global literature on climate resilience and outlines practical options for organizations to become more resilient - often also mitigating climate change, including what they do, how...
12/10/2021
This report presents case studies for three domains in which forest and farm producer organizations are helping smallholders build climate resilience: increasing the viability of livelihoods, managing crises, and creating...
This brief argues that grassroots organizations – which represent millions of families who earn their living from smallholder forests and farms – already support rural producers to cope with climate-related threats...
21/12/2020
These climate resilience case studies were prepared by forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) in the partner countries of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).
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Building on existing experiences, interviews and local surveys in Ghana’s savannah zone, this article details how FFPOs can help build climate-resilient landscapes and ensure that multiple benefits are generated for...
Millions of unique smallholder producers and artisans make a huge contribution to the world economy but few can compete in globalised markets. Their high per unit production costs, lack of...
Youth migration shapes economies and ecologies profoundly. Young men and women bring vibrancy to rural communities. But in rural areas, young people must weigh up their chances for prosperity: whether...