Natural resource management | International Institute for Environment and Development

An aerial view of Entebbe airport. The airport is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, close to numerous environmentally sensitive wetland areas (Photo: Niranjanoak, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

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Environment or the economy? How Uganda uses natural capital accounts in policymaking

A hippo in Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. IIED is helping the Uganda Wildlife Authority to address wildlife crime through community engagement (Photo: Mirko Eggert, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime

Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity

Map shows where the EbA Evidence and Policy project is being undertaken

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Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD

The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)

News

New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests

Conservation, communities and equity

How IIED is investigating and promoting the role of biodiversity as a fundamental building block of sustainable development More in this collection

A volunteer health and conservation trainer gives a group talk to her community (Photo: Conservation Through Public Health)

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Can improving health reduce threats to nature conservation?

Local villagers receive wildlife training in the Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania, which incorporates seven villages. (Photo: WWF/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management

Community members at Mgahinga National Park, Uganda discuss the Social Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas methodology (Photo: Rob Small)

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Enhancing the equity and effectiveness of protected area conservation

Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED is supporting locally-controlled forestry for improved livelihoods, justice and sustainability More in this collection

The Forest and Farm Facility is now working with Ecuador forest farm producers such as this bamboo production business

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Forest and Farm Facility Phase II

People planting seedlings

Article

Archive of completed locally-controlled forestry projects

Long read

Finding a green path for China and Africa?

Resilience in agricultural and food systems

How IIED is building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems More in this collection

People sitting in a pasture

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International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

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Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

A conservation agriculture demonstration at the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, Zambia. Conservation agriculture can increase productivity and improve soil structure (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

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Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

Publications

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Navigating ocean investments

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Community-led approaches to tackling illegal wildlife trade

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Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation

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Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited, and Stirling Capital Limited v. Republic of Kenya

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Droits fonciers : le chaînon manquant pour la sécurité alimentaire au Cameroun

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Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon

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Men and women digging and carrying rocks

Mali’s new mining law: an improvement, but fails artisanal miners

Blog, Oct 2019

Navigating ocean investments

Insight, Oct 2019

Tools for ecosystem-based adaptation: new navigator now available

News, Sep 2019

fresh green beans

Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain

Blog, Sep 2019

Fishermen hauling in a net

Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean

Project, Aug 2019

Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives

Project, Jul 2019

A road through deforested land

Investor-state dispute settlement: IIED and partners contribute to reform working group

News, Jul 2019

A heap of steel balls in a lorry

Why procurement should be the "next frontier" in transparency for mining

Blog, Jul 2019

People sitting in a pasture

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

Project, Jun 2019

A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber

China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?

Blog, Jun 2019

Timber, pipes and other construction materials are piled up in front of a lorry

Discussion: Mining local procurement – a necessary lever to overcome the resource curse

Event, May 2019

View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

Project, Apr 2019