This book is the result of a short sabbatical at IIED to reflect on this experience, telling the story of Bolsa Floresta, many other schemes, and of improving the mandates of environmental institutions so that they become sustainable development agents.

This report reviews the status of SMFEs in Ghana. It provides information on the various issues confronting the sub-sector and identifies mechanisms for harnessing the potential of SMFEs to effectively contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable forest management in Ghana.

The Program on Forests (PROFOR) supported a research project in the miombo ecoregion to address these and other issues that a REDD program in the region would be confronted with.

Numéro 59 : Le Web participatif pour le développement : version cédérom multilingue et multimédia (anglais et français)~~Les articles contenus dans ce numéro s’inspirent des communications et présentations faites lors de la « Conférence Web2ForDev 2007 : le Web participatif au service du développement », qui s’est tenue du 24 au 27 septembre 2007 à Rome, ainsi que des événements qui en ont découlé en 2008.~~Des dizaines d’applications et de services interactifs (souvent appelés Web participatif ou Web 2.0) « fleurissent » aujourd’hui sur Internet.

International migration has long been an important feature of Senegalese society, and migrants’ remittances play a significant role in the livelihoods of rural households and the growth of small and intermediate urban centres.

Au coeur de la cogestion des ressources naturelles se déroule un processus collectif de compréhension et d'action mené à bien par des peuples autochtones, des communautés locales, des agences du gouvernement et diverses autre parties prenantes.

Providing water and sanitation services to low-income communities is a key development challenge in urban areas.

In many large Asian cities, planners have begun to clear informal inner-city settlements and replace them with commercial and middle-class neighbourhoods, seeking to project an image of modernity and prosperity to foreign investors.

In recent years, global demand for biofuels has increased as a result of changing oil prices coupled with concerns over energy security and climate change.

This paper specifically describes the urbanization experience of Brazil, by far the largest country in Latin America, and which has attained levels of urbanization that surpass those of most European countries.

Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks are extremely important biodiversity areas due to their populations of the highly endangered mountain gorilla. Gazettement of the parks in 1991 caused high levels of conflict and resistance from the surrounding communities, seriously threatening the ability of the protected area authority to manage the parks.

This paper is intended to provide some guidance to the policy-oriented researchers’ work on valuing climate change adaptation in developing countries.