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The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… and co-evolving in response to climate change. This landscape-based gene bank provides a safeguard for potato production in Peru and … the importance of indigenous peoples' participation in the management of the scheme, and the need for decentralised monitoring, for … system, led by indigenous peoples, can generate positive economic, environmental and cultural outcomes.  The importance of wide …
Insight, 16 January 2017
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… growing recognition that they hold the key to solving many of today’s environmental problems. Up to 80% of biodiversity is located on … enhanced yields despite severe climate change impacts. And landscape-based biocultural products and services, such as eco-tourism, a … by the NGO Asociaciόn ANDES . This approach has built strong community ownership and self-sustainability. My PhD explores whether and …
Insight, 18 February 2020
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… organisations; development and humanitarian organisations; faith-based organisations; Indigenous People; business; local and regional … The call for bold and urgent action on behalf of the international community to safeguard the health and safety of this generation and … Our purpose is the greening of Bogota, as part of our social and environmental contract we are building for the 21st century.” …
News, 18 September 2020
People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans (Photo: Jamie Skinner)
Niger hosts forum on securing land rights in irrigated areas
… years and this may represent a serious threat to the productive management of the irrigation schemes and hence to the national … of Nature  (IUCN) assists in finding practical solutions to current environmental and development problems.  Valuing and conserving natural … and equitable management of their use, and developing nature-based solutions to meet the challenges of the world’s climate, of food …
News, 07 May 2014
Left: Women and schoolgirls discuss the benefits of harvesting rainwater (Credit: ISET). Right: A girl collects water from the rainwater storage tank (Credit: Fawad Khan)
Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
Insight, 18 March 2014
Charting a course for biodiversity and the poor
… as yet undiscovered food, fuel and medicine to maintaining critical ‘environmental services’ provided by biodiversity, such as fertilisation, … for their food, shelter, income, fuel, health, quality of life and community, and that they have few alternatives when these resources are … and local communities on the frontlines of biodiversity. This post is based on an article SciDev.Net published earlier this week .   …
Insight, 22 October 2010
A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)
Government group network on climate change mainstreaming
Project, 29 September 2014
People walking down a street with mountains in the background
Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip
… it produces and supplies to several cities, as well as the local community.  The experts We started our research in Bogotá. Our first … human rights, and so on. The same happens with science. The science-based discussions about the demarcation of the Páramo were criticised … cases – might also take into account some dimensions of international environmental and human rights law.  Eventually, this dispute between …
Insight, 22 June 2020
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Lessons from malaria control activities in urban West Africa using a research-action-capacity building approach (PLA 40)
… In the South, urban environmental and social management is often based on top-down … social, economic and ecological realities. This paper discusses how a community-based approach – Research Action~Capacity-building (RAC) – can …
Publication, 01 February 2001
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
… Development Goal (Goal 5) . Yet the interconnections between environmental sustainability and women's empowerment have often been overlooked in practice – particularly in the environmental movement. Now a new collection of essays by researchers, … Across politics, business and the media, we need to create a system based on different values, with equality and sustainability at its core. …
Insight, 02 February 2016