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Miners on a steep hillside mine tungsten
Secure land rights are now more important than ever
… backsliding Managed responsibly, facilitating natural resource-based investments for economic recovery could provide the much needed … resource sectors, countries are backsliding on important pre-COVID environmental and social safeguards. We have seen weakened environmental impact assessments, compressed or limited community consultations, the opening up of Indigenous lands and …
Insight, 29 January 2021
The Bailique community, mainly artisanal fishermen and forest users near the Amazon River, have established the first community protocol in Brazil (Photo: Roberta Ramos)
Brazil's first community protocol: the Bailique experience
… The coastal forest community of Bailique in the northern Brazilian Amazon has established … life, and strengthen their collective management of natural resources based on customary laws and institutions. It has also prompted the … supported by the network Grupo de Trabalho Amazônico (GTA), a socio-environmental Brazilian NGO.  Building the Bailique community protocol …
Insight, 25 August 2015
Films shot two decades apart reveal environmental recovery and improved livelihoods in Africa
… A new film and book, to be launched in London on 5 October, show how community participation in development projects has led to successful agricultural change and environmental recovery in Burkina Faso and Kenya. They show that despite … groups had recently adopted. These included simple technologies based on improved traditions to conserve soil and water, local capacity …
News, 01 October 2010
Group of people sitting on chairs facing each other
Addressing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Colombia
… artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has significant negative environmental and social impacts, including contributing to climate … to: Improve biodiversity conservation Reduce deforestation and environmental contamination Support the creation of licit economies … and less-heard voices. We supported DAI’s integrated natural resource management research team to reach local groups and those with direct …
Project, 25 April 2023
Cover for 15503IIED.pdf
CAMPFIRE and payments for environmental services
… been increasing support in recent years for the use of payments for environmental services (PES) as a means to advance the goals of both … for managing ecosystems and providing environmental services, and are based on the premise that positive incentives can lead to changes in land-use practices. The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) is a …
Publication, 01 July 2006
User guide to tools for environmental integration
… Industry must be energy- and water-efficient. Poor people’s environmental deprivations must be tackled in development activity. … Such tools might be applied at a range of levels (national, district, community) and by a range of users (government, non-governmental and community-based organisations, the businesses and private sector organisations). …
Project, 01 September 2008
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… Over the past 20 years market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) and … this experience, gathering inputs from the research and academic community to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works and … and evidence from PES projects that shows PES can bring about environmental improvements, such as improved land practices in …
Project, 26 April 2016
Cover for 7799IIED.pdf
Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana and Namibia: An inventory and preliminary analysis of progress
… a brief history of this establishment, covering socio-economic and environmental aspects, together with the policy and legal framework for … Important issues raised include - forms of participation of wildlife management; community dynamics; the institutional set-up; and indigenous community … Natural resource management …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Screenshot of a the Biocultural Heritage site's homepage.
Our other sites and networks
… Active sites REDAA 2022 - ongoing Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) catalyses research, … and conserving ecosystems. Website  |  Project page Nature-based Solutions policy platform 2018 - ongoing An interactive online … are doing across a broad range of ethical issues. Project page Community networks Community websites set up by IIED in partnership with …
Page, 30 September 2022
a turtle
Navigating ocean investments
Article, 01 October 2019