Natural resource management

We work to build partnerships, capacity and wise decision making for fair and sustainable use of natural resources, with a focus on local control

Also related to

Poverty reduction

Climate finance

Emissions reductions

Biodiversity and conservation

A group of people form a circle in the forest. One person is speaking

Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority

Duncan MacQueen
10 October 2022

A crowd of women and men hold banners and shout in protest

Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations

Lorenzo Cotula
11 May 2022

No description available.

Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia

24 March 2022

A wooden fence leads on to a field behind which are trees

From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses

15 February 2022

A woman farmer bends over in a field of crops in front of forest in the background.

Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together

04 January 2022

Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders

Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector

August 2020 - March 2025

Waterfalls surrounded by nature.

Towards a nature positive economic recovery post COVID-19

Event on 23 November 2021

Stalls of fruits and vegetables.

Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance

Lorenzo Cotula
30 September 2021

Related collections

Learn more about focused areas of IIED's natural resource management work

Conservation, communities and equity

A programme of work showing how IIED is building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking

Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED supports just transitions towards locally-controlled forestry that safeguard biocultural heritage, enhance entrepreneurship and improve prosperity within diverse and resilient landscapes

Resilience and diversity in food systems

A programme of work on how IIED is building greater local control, resilience and diversity into agricultural and food systems

Law, economies and justice

A collaborative programme of work on renegotiating the law to promote fairer, more sustainable economies

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Publications

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Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems and Biocultural Heritage: Addressing Indigenous Priorities Using Decolonial and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches

21126iied.pdf

Establishing a Biocultural Heritage Territory to protect Kenya's Kaya forests - project launch workshop report

21021g.pdf

Engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade - lessons from Southeast Asia, South America and sub-Saharan Africa

20941G.pdf

The nexus between soil degradation and agricultural expansion in Zambia

20896G.pdf

Future trade-offs to 2050: land cover change, biodiversity and agriculture in Zambia

20891G.pdf

Reducing the biodiversity impacts of agriculture in Ethiopia

20886G.pdf

Reducing the biodiversity impacts of agriculture in Ghana

20881G.pdf

Reducing the biodiversity impacts of agriculture in Zambia

20871iied.pdf

African timber cities: carbon sinks with development benefits?

20861G.pdf

Determinants of farmland expansion in the forest margins of Ethiopia

A group of people form a circle in the forest. One person is speaking

Diversification for climate resilience: a global priority

Blog, 10 October 2022

A crowd of women and men hold banners and shout in protest

Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations

Blog, 11 May 2022

No description available.

Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia

Article, 24 March 2022

A wooden fence leads on to a field behind which are trees

From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses

Article, 15 February 2022

A woman farmer bends over in a field of crops in front of forest in the background.

Flourishing forests and prosperous people – together

Article, 04 January 2022

Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders

Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector

Active Project

Waterfalls surrounded by nature.

Towards a nature positive economic recovery post COVID-19

Event on 23 November 2021

Stalls of fruits and vegetables.

Food Systems Summit: implications for global food governance

Blog, 30 September 2021

Standing and seating men and women pose for a group photograph

Zambia’s chiefs champion gender equality in land and natural resource governance

Blog, 06 September 2021

Two people pour liquid on a plate of potatoes.

Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19

Blog, 26 August 2021