Browsing by Author "Macqueen, Duncan"

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The Business Side of Sustainable Forest Management: Small and Medium Forest Enterprise Development for Poverty Reduction
(2006) Donovan, Jason; Stoian, Dietmar; Macqueen, Duncan; Grouwels, Sophie
"Indigenous peoples and peasant communities have long been managing tropical forests and have increasingly gained legal access to the resource base. Only recently, however, have they started to form small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) to add value to their timber and non-timber forest products (NTFPs). SMFEs represent a promising option for poverty reduction and forest conservation through sustainable forest management. Their development into economically viable businesses requires an enabling environment, in terms of laws and policies that promote legal access to the resource base, provide incentives for sound forest management, support increased value adding, and promote the formation of human, social, physical and financial capital for sustainable production of timber and NTFPs. This paper argues that there are still significant challenges to the development of viable SMFEs and that government and non-governmental agencies, as well as the SMFEs themselves and their business partners, have important roles to play in the process."
Innovating for Environment and Society: An Overview
(2009) Wilson, Emma; MacGregor, James; Macqueen, Duncan; Vermeulen, Sonja; Vorley, William T.; Zarsky, Lyuba
"How can business pull a local farming community out of poverty? Tackle climate change? Protect a forest’s biodiversity? This, the first of eight briefings in the IIED ‘business models for sustainable development’ series, shows how business can help to deliver the Millennium Development Goals. This overview covers all the stages in the process, from ensuring that environment and development are at the core of business activities, to the key design principles of business models, the essential alliances businesses need to forge, and the challenges they face on the road to sustainability."
Just Forest Governance: How Small Learning Groups Can Have Big Impact
(2009) Mayers, James; Bhattacharya, Prodyut; Diaw, Chimere; Kismadi, Budhita; Long, Cath; Macqueen, Duncan; Morrisson, Elaine; Mosse, Marcelo; Opoku, Kyeretwie; Ngubane, Steven; Sibale, Bright; Tan, Nguyen Quang; Twesigye, Bashir; Vermeulen, Sonja
"Forests are power bases, but often for the wrong people. As attention turns from making an international deal on REDD to making it work on the ground, the hunt will be on for practical ways of shifting power over forests towards those who enable and pursue sustainable forest-linked livelihoods. The Forest Governance Learning Group – an alliance active in Cameroon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda and Vietnam – has developed practical tactics for securing safe space, provoking dialogue, building constituencies, wielding evidence and interacting politically. It has begun to have significant impacts. To deepen and widen those impacts, FGLG seeks allies."
Roots of Success: Cultivating Viable Community Forestry
(2009) Macqueen, Duncan
"Small forestry was for years half-lost in the shadow of industrial logging. Now, as forests become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership and strategic alliances, for instance, make for sustainability and cooperation. The second in IIED’s ‘business models for sustainable development’ series, this briefing reveals how forest communities round the world are creating a new business model that works."
Working Together: Forest-linked Small and Medium Enterprise Associations and Collective Action
(2006) Macqueen, Duncan; Bose, Sharmistha; Bukula, Septi; Kazoora, Cornelius; Ousman, Sharon; Porro, Noemi; Weyerhaeuser, Horst
"This paper draws out some lessons on how and why associations work. It summarises research from Brazil, China, Guyana, India, South Africa and Uganda. The research found that lasting associations generally have a strong degree of autonomy. They usually have leaders with a track-record of social commitment. Most have gradually evolving sets of procedures that institutionalise the progress made by charismatic founders. Their focus is usually restricted to a few long-term issues. Equity is highest where there is greatest investment in democracy. Equitable associations tend to pay attention to transparency over costs and benefits. Most also have in place sanctions for free riders or those who break their rules, and clear procedures for resolving conflicts."