July 2021

Forests newsletter

Welcome to this edition of IIED’s forests newsletter.

In this issue we're excited to share updates on our project Tree-planting campaigns in post-COVID-19 recovery; a Q&A with Estrella Penunia, secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA); and an article on co-producing knowledge with forest and farm producer organisations in Environmental Science and Policy.

We also have an exciting opportunity to join the forests team. We are looking for a researcher to focus on our forests and prosperity work in Africa.

Forests team

A person holding a shovel of dirt at a tree planting ceremony that was held in 2019 to mark the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

Getting the politics right to grow the trees right

IIED and partners are aiming to identify the conditions under which high-profile tree-planting campaigns might work – resulting in the right trees in the right places, with the right incentives for the right people to take care of them – in the context of post-COVID-19 recovery.

Find out about the Tree-planting campaigns in post-COVID-19 recovery project.

Read the blog, Trees need locally-grown politics

Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss

Estrella Penunia, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), highlights the challenges faced by small-scale women and men farmers in Asia from climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation.

Read the Q&A with Estrella Penunia

Co-producing knowledge: A demand-led, prosperity-focused, research agenda with forest and farm producer organisations

Jack Covey has worked closely with IIED's forest team in recent months and is conducting his PhD research on the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). He has worked with colleagues at IIED to capture knowledge demand survey work into an academic journal article that explains the rationale behind the FFF's knowledge generation process.

Read Co-producing knowledge.

We are hiring! Researcher - forests and prosperity, Africa

We are looking for a researcher to join the forest team on a permanent, full time basis. If you are interested please apply via the IIED website, and please do share this opportunity with your contacts.

Read the job description and apply by 13 August.