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)

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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

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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

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

A farmer in Bangladesh who produces vermi-compost to fertilise her crops (Photo: Seth Cook/IIED)

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Upscaling agroecological practices

A herbalist shares information on medicinal and food plants growing in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Coastal Forest in Kenya (Photo: Doris Mutta)

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Smallholder innovation for resilience (SIFOR)

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China in Cameroon’s forests: a review of issues and progress for livelihoods and sustainability

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Scaling up community forest enterprises in Tanzania

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Adaptación basada en ecosistemas: construir sobre lo positivo en El Salvador

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Human–wildlife conflict and insurance. Can insurance reduce the costs of living with wildlife?

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Forest-wise parks in Mozambique

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Ecosystem-based climate adaptation: building on the positives in El Salvador

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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

Article, 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

The Saloum Delta Biosphere Reserve in Senegal (Photo: El Hadji Ballé Seye/UICN-Sénégal)

EBA Evidence and Policy: Senegal

Project, Apr 2019

CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)

Time to turn the PAGE?

Blog, Jan 2019

Mangroves and seagrasses in Lembongan, Indonesia. Conserving mangrove forests be part of ecosystem-based adaptation, protecting coastlines and biodiversity (Photo: Steven Lutz/Blue Forests, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Help pilot the navigator of tools for ecosystem-based adaptation

News, Jan 2019

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)

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

Blog, Jan 2019

Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso

Project, Jan 2019

Restoring mangroves (Photo: Orsibal Ramírez/IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: El Salvador

Project, Dec 2018

Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Blog, Dec 2018

This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica

Project, Dec 2018

Event: Towards an inclusive blue economy

News, Dec 2018