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Annual review video

Sharing nature-based solutions

Three people with a pile of vicuña wool

Blog

Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade

a turtle

Insight

Navigating ocean investments

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

Project

Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

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)

Blog

There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity

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 building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking More in this collection

Prioritising positive and negative social impacts of the protected area at Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda (Photo: Rob Small)

Article

Introduction to conservation, communities and equity

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)

Article

Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management

Community engagement in preventin pangolin poaching in Nepal (Photo: Ambika Prasad Khatiwada)

Article

Wildlife crime and local communities

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

Project

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

An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands

Project

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience

People sitting in a pasture

Project

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

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

Project

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

Latest publications

Supplement for the Social Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (SAPA) Methodology manual for SAPA facilitators: General guidance on follow-up actions for enabling fair and effective law enforcement

Ethiopian coffee marketing reforms and smallholder coffee producers: A socio-legal empowerment lens

A Systematic Review of Drivers and Constraints on Agricultural Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Social Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (SAPA) Methodology manual for SAPA facilitators

Évaluation sociale pour les aires protégées (SAPA) Guide méthodologique à l’intention des facilitateurs SAPA

Towards a political economy of the COVID-19 crisis: Reflections on an agenda for research and action

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Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature

Blog, Apr 2021

Icon of plant in cracked ground

Sharing nature-based solutions

Annual review video , Mar 2021

Local scout looking over a savanna landscape

Community-based rangers – an effective approach to tackling illegal wildlife trade?

Webinar, Mar 2021

People in a forest looking at trees

Charting a “path to recovery and wellbeing” on 2021’s International Day of Forests

Blog, Mar 2021

Enhancing governance of community-based natural resource management in Zambia

Project, Feb 2021

Miners on a steep hillside mine tungsten

Secure land rights are now more important than ever

Blog, Jan 2021

The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.

Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia

Blog, Dec 2020

Boat on a lake and a waterfall in the background

Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda

Blog, Dec 2020

Men posing for a photo while constructing a weir with bamboo structures.

CBA14: explore with us how nature-based solutions support local action for adaptation

Blog, Aug 2020

Two women sitting down and speaking to each other.

Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19

Blog, Aug 2020

Páramo landscape

Investment disputes from below: whose rights matter?

Long read, Jul 2020

A group of men in felt hats and woollen capes

“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance

Blog, Jul 2020