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Conserving India's Agro-Biodiversity: Prospects and policy implications
… what happens in the agricultural sector. What role does agricultural biodiversity - the diversity of agro-ecosystems, crops and livestock - and of related husbandry … Conserving India's Agro-Biodiversity: Prospects and policy implications …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… of equity in conservation could help tackle the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss. 2 VNR reporting needs evaluation: a call for global … on the plate Report This 56-page synthesis discusses why agricultural biodiversity and dietary diversity are important, the relationship … loss of biodiversity in agriculture and foster diverse diets. 7 Ecosystems, poverty alleviation and conditional transfers Toolkit Social …
Article, 21 December 2018
A woman stands to the side of a barren area through which small shoots of a mangrove forest can be seen
Community solutions for a nature-based, resilient future beyond COVID-19
Article, 07 October 2020
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Submission to the Eighth Meeting of the CBD Working group on Access and benefit-sharing
… biological diversity. It focused on both medicinal plants and agro-biodiversity and related traditional knowledge in different ecosystems (mountain, dryland, semi-arid savannah and coastal forests). … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 September 2009
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Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project MANAGING THE IMPACTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MINERALS INDUSTRY ON BIODIVERSITY Final Report
… Project MANAGING THE IMPACTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MINERALS INDUSTRY ON BIODIVERSITY Final Report M.V. Lloyd, G. Barnett, M.D. Doherty, R.A. … to this report: Mr G. Barnett ñ Landscape Ecologist, Sustainable Ecosystems, CSIRO, Mr M.D. Doherty ñ Plant Ecologist, Sustainable Ecosystems, CSIRO, Dr R.A. Jeffree ñ Principal Research Scientist, …
Publication, 01 April 2002
Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… 5-14 October. The report recommends ways to improve the governance of biodiversity — how it is managed and how decisions about it are made — … which show that while some local initiatives are working for both biodiversity and livelihoods, the overall regimes tend to exclude the … making. Biodiversity — the variety of living genes, species and ecosystems — is key to the livelihoods of millions of the world’s …
News, 08 October 2008
View of a field and a farm.
Towards planet and people-positive agriculture in East Africa
Project, 24 November 2020
Tom Pye helped redesign the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) newsletter, a monthly bulletin for people working on biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation (Image: PCLG)
A valuable learning experience
… a monthly bulletin with news and opportunities for people working on biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. The newsletter had … EBA involves the sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change , for … Biodiversity …
Insight, 19 April 2016
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
… a much truer picture of the contribution that natural resources and biodiversity make to the country, both now and in the future. Including … Ronald Kaggwa “We must include natural capital values and the cost of biodiversity loss in our policy decision making, if we want sustainable … UN System for Environmental Economic Accounting  Central Framework. Ecosystems and biodiversity should be at the heart of any of these sets …
Insight, 09 January 2019
A man walking a bike on a flooded road
A changing world needs changing methods: six steps for evaluations to assess “what will work”
Insight, 11 July 2022