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A cereal shop, a corner shop and a computer, printing and photocopy shop.
Energy, finance and community business – show us the money
… But uptake of ‘productive use of energy’ (PUE) – energy that can help community-level businesses increase their income and productivity – is … is needed across different contexts, and to unpack and understand community businesses’ nuanced needs, beyond tariff and appliance costs . … partners at ground level, prototyping different approaches to build community business capacity and access to finance – including partnering …
Insight, 18 August 2020
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
An elephant in Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park. Efforts to combat illegal trade in high-value commodities such as tusks depend largely on the support of local communities.(Photo: Jurriaan Persyn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New collection of publications on community engagement to tackle illegal wildlife trade
… IIED has been working in partnership with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on the First Line of Defence against … wider work on wildlife crime. Other linked areas of work include the ‘Community-based wildlife management as a tool to tackle illegal wildlife … aims to identify, profile and promote examples of successful community management models, and to explore key ingredients for success. …
News, 09 May 2018
A group of villagers
A tale of two villages: community perspectives on the impact of Botswana’s trophy hunting ban
… and hunting, with the proceeds of these ventures going towards community development. Through this national Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) programme, many … community-based sustainable use approaches in their national wildlife conservation policies. But in January 2014 it set a moratorium on all …
Insight, 24 January 2020
A plantation
Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights
… activists to crafting land tenure legislation. Rachael founded the Community Land Protection Initiative (CLPI) – an annual peer learning … land markets, and have a clear vision for how they want their community to prosper and grow. I describe these procedures in two … rights for women, youth, and members of minority groups Improved conservation, use and management of natural resources, as well as …
Article, 27 January 2020
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Biocredits to finance nature and people: emerging lessons
… often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are … as a tradeable unit of biodiversity that can incentivise nature conservation and restoration to benefit marginalised groups living with … investors, individuals and governments who want to invest in the conservation and restoration of biodiversity. Biocredits supplied by …
Publication, 05 December 2022
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… The IUCN World Conservation Congress is a large, conservation event held every four … in this session: Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge Community Biocultural Protocols: Building Mechanisms for Access and … Farmers in Southwest China Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65) Conservation and …
Event, 16 August 2012
Weighing sacks of coffee beans in Colombia's southwestern Cauca department (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT)
Environmental Funds: sustainable finance for conservation
… grant making institutions that provide funding for biodiversity conservation, protected areas, sustainable development and/or broader national or regional conservation objectives. EF are usually established through donations or … even more traction? I applaud IIED's recently published Review of Conservation Trust Funds for Sustainable Marine Resources Management . …
Insight, 23 July 2014
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Conservation Enterprise: What Works, Where and for Whom?
… Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) recognises that … as long as they stand to gain more than they lose from doing so. Conservation enterprises—commercial activities generating economic and … between local communities and the private sector, with the community retaining ownership and the private sector providing the …
Publication, 01 July 2011
Men and women fish off the island of Padma Pakur. Image by Espen Rasmussen/PANOS
Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish
… rare example of a scheme that provides direct incentives for fishery conservation and, with improvements, it could provide valuable lessons … idea, whose viability the researchers will assess is a Hilsa Fish Conservation Fund. This could take some of the US$630 million a year in … Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish …
News, 28 May 2013