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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)

Project

Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime

Natural capital accounting can help monitor progress against Sustainable Development Goals indicators (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)

Blog

Making the link between the SDGs and natural capital accounting

Chinese and African delegates visit a nursery and learn about a reforestation project in Pemba, Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

News

Sustainable investment in African forest resources highlighted at China-Africa event

Land cleared for palm oil in Riau Province, Indonesia. Only half of Riau's palm oil plantations have official permits (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Article

Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights

Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Blog

Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?

Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)

Blog

Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already

Biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

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

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)

Project

Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime

A mountain gorilla in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park (Photo: Francesco Veronesi, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Project

Local economic development through gorilla tourism

Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)

Project

Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

Locally-controlled forestry

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

Ghanaian women working in a micro enterprise shell cocoa, one of the commodities driving deforestation in western Ghana. These enterprises need targeted access to finance to adopt sustainable production systems that can contribute to halting deforestation and improving livelihoods (Photo: Tom Blomley)

Project

Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises

Mist over the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda (Photo: Brian Harries, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Long read

Mist clears on China in African forests

A woman carries firewood in the Congo Basin rainforest (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Project

CoNGOs: NGOs collaborating for equitable and sustainable community livelihoods in Congo Basin forests

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)

Project

Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture

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

Project

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)

Publications

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Informality, global capital, rural development and the environment: Mukula (rosewood) trade between China and Zambia

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Informal trade in cotton: Understanding drivers and working towards solutions in Zambia and Zimbabwe

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The new face of informality in the Tanzanian mineral economy: Transforming artisanal mining through foreign investment?

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Ecosystems, poverty alleviation and conditional transfers

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CBA11 conference proceedings: harnessing natural resources and ecosystems for adaptation

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Conditional transfers, poverty and ecosystems National Programme Highlights - Sloping lands conversion Programme in China

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Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase

Blog, Mar 2018

Pope Francis met with indigenous leaders, including Yesica Patiachi who is from the Harakbut people, one of the three main ethnic groups in the Madre de Dios region (Photo: Presidencia Perú, Creative Commons via Flickr)

On pilgrimage in Madre de Dios: starting a journey to sustainable artisanal mining

Blog, Feb 2018

Miners from the Tanga region in northern Tanzania participating in discussions about how to make ASM in Tanzania more sustainable (Photo: Steve Aanu)

Mining dialogue paves the way for change

News, Feb 2018

Natural capital accounting can help monitor progress against Sustainable Development Goals indicators (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)

Making the link between the SDGs and natural capital accounting

Blog, Jan 2018

Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)

Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?

Blog, Dec 2017

Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)

Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?

Blog, Dec 2017

Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)

Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already

Blog, Nov 2017

Chinese and African delegates visit a nursery and learn about a reforestation project in Pemba, Mozambique (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Sustainable investment in African forest resources highlighted at China-Africa event

News, Nov 2017

A community in Cameroon, where Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement has been supporting junior lawyers in rural communities (Photo: Lorenzo Cotula/IIED)

Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned

Blog, Nov 2017

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)

Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime

Project, Oct 2017

The new ASM newsletter, which is published quarterly (Image: IIED)

IIED publishes latest newsletter on artisanal and small-scale mining

News, Oct 2017

A map shows new walking trails at the edge of the park that have been developed to encourage tourists to explore more of Bwindi and spend money on local products (Photo: Peter Nizette)

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise…

Blog, Oct 2017