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

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Biodiversity and conservation

Biocultural heritage

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)

Sign in a field pointing to a cobalt mine in the DRC

Critical minerals, international policy and a just energy transition

Event on 29 January 2025

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Mapping community development requirements in the mining sector

April 2021 - ongoing

Miners showing minerals.

Critical minerals and the just energy transition: opportunities and challenges

January 2023 - ongoing

Landscape with a mine and blue sky.

Can the net-zero transition offer a new dawn for Africa’s industrialisation?

Rose Mosi
16 May 2024

A salt mine, with a white cliff against a blue sky and a tiny lorry in the distance.

Trade deals and the energy transition: whose voices count?

Lorenzo Cotula
23 April 2024

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How information technology is empowering the women of SEWA in India

19 March 2024

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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

View more Natural resource management publications

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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests

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International conference on agrobiodiversity

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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2023

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Timing your safeguards in mining

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How information technology is empowering the women of SEWA in India

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Rapid response mechanisms

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Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya Forests: mid-term project workshop

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Mainstreaming biodiversity in development cooperation

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SAGE and its early contributions to improvements in governance of area-based conservation

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Montréal Declaration on Small-Scale Women Farmers for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

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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

Active Project

Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)

Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?

Insight, 03 December 2018

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)

Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD

Insight, 20 November 2018

Brisetha Hendricks talking to conservancy members. As well as rhino, the Uibasen Twyfelfontein Conservancy has elephants, leopards, mountain zebras, kudu, gemsbok, ostrich, springbok, steenbok, duiker and klipspringer (Photo: Brisetha Hendricks)

Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future

Article, 15 November 2018

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)

Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management

Article, 14 November 2018

A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)

Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference

Insight, 22 October 2018

The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru

Active Project

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

New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests

News, 21 August 2018

Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)

Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests

Insight, 14 August 2018

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Finding a green path for China and Africa?

Long read, 08 August 2018