private investment
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Field Notes | A Perennial Perspective
01.12.12Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre Tony Simons delivered a meaty, 102-slide presentation on "The Science Needs of Development: A perennial perspective" that gave rise to many questions. How do you nudge societies to adopt a tree planting culture? Why is the science of scaling up successful programs still so elusive? Can we emulate the health sector in this regard?
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Knowledge | Mobilizing Private Investment in Trees and Landscape Restoration in Africa
11.16.11Despite the very considerable body of on-farm experience which has been gained in testing agroforestry and other tree-based technologies for their impact on increasing productivity and on rural income generation, investment in agroforestry, tree planting and landscape restoration has been lagging. This activity aimed to shed light on potential private investment opportunities and identify policy, regulatory and institutional constraints that could be lifted to help tap this potential.
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Knowledge | Making Benefit Sharing Arrangements Work for Forest Dependent Communities
10.05.11Building on a report titled Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing: Insights on What Makes Collaborative Arrangements Work for Communities and Landowners and field work in Latin America and Africa, PROFOR is supporting a study drilling down on two questions of particular interest in the context of REDD initiatives: how to identify legitimate beneficiaries, and how to identify appropriate mechanisms for sharing benefits.
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Field Notes | Trees & the Private Sector: Carbon credits and baobab powder
06.29.11In the last installment of videos we filmed at the Investment Forum in Kenya, we focus on two products that have market potential: carbon credits and baobab powder.
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Field Notes | Trees & the Private Sector: Fodder trees for dairy cows
06.09.11Even small dairy farmers like Abraham and Priscilla Kiprotich, in the northern Rift Valley of Kenya, see the advantage of planting trees on their farms to increase milk yields, produce woodfuel and gain self-reliance.
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Field Notes | Trees & the Private Sector: Danone
06.06.11Speaking at the Nairobi investment forum on trees and landscape restoration last month, Danone's VP for Sustainability shared his company's experience with agroforestry and ecosystem restoration, in Senegal and elsewhere. The company's work, in partnership with IUCN, helped develop a recently-adopted carbon accounting methodology for mangroves.
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Field Notes | Money on Trees
06.01.11The Nairobi investment forum which wrapped up last week provided a one-of-a-kind inventory of private sector opportunities related to growing trees, marketing tree products and restoring degraded landscapes in partnership with civil society and government. The next step is to draw up an action plan to make sure that the contacts and good ideas generated by the forum translate into new investments.
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Field Notes | Kenya!
05.17.11Just a week to go before our Investment Forum opens in Nairobi, Kenya. About 100 people are expected to attend. We've posted related photos taken by our partners at TerrAfrica and the World Agrofestry Centre on Flickr and background papers related to the Forum on its event page.
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Knowledge | Brazil: Scaling up Renewable Charcoal Production
03.08.11PROFOR and the BioCarbon Fund are co-financing a study designed to identify institutional and financial arrangements required to mainstream forest plantation business models and promote the potential development of CDM projects aimed at reducing GHG emissions in the forestry and iron supply chains in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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News & Events | Investment Forum: Mobilizing Private Investment in Trees and Landscape Restoration in Africa
03.07.11The three-day event in May explored the potential for private sector investment in trees and landscape restoration opportunities in Africa. Forum proceedings, presentations and background papers are now available online.
