Power tools for policy influence in natural resource management. This website introduces a range of Power Tools – "how-to" ideas that marginalised people and their allies can use to have a greater positive influence on natural resources policy. The 26 power tools provide a wide range of techniques, tactics and tips based on experience in natural resource management around the world. They are intended to offer sets of adaptable ideas rather than finalised blueprints for action. www.policy-powertools.org
Small-scale producers and standard in agrifood supply chains. Between 2005 and 2008, IIED and the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) worked with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to explore opportunities for more favourable outcomes for small producers in developing countries to participate in international horticultural supply chains, given the rise of private standards. www.agrifoodstandards.net
The Growing Forest Partnerships (GFP) project aimed to promote a world where forests and the different people who live and work in them are in balance. Where forests are conserved and the rights of those living in them are recognized and respected. Where forests support livelihoods, and can raise revenue for both governments and forest dependent people. In each of the GFP countries – Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia, Mozambique and Nepal – the project helps forest stakeholders to connect, create a common vision, develop and implement joint activities. www.growingforestpartnerships.org
Race to the Top was a collaborative project based on constructive engagement between an alliance of organisations and the major UK multiple retailers. It sought to measure and track what supermarkets are doing across a broad range of ethical issues, within the constraints of business pressures such as compliance with legislation or building shareholder value. www.racetothetop.org
Sustaining local food systems: agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods. This project aimed to analyse how and under what conditions decentralised governance, capacity building and participation by farmers can promote the adaptive management of agricultural biodiversity in the context of local food systems and livelihoods. www.diversefoodsystems.org