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A shepherd and a herd of sheep in a mountain
COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance
… role in forest protection, climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and inclusive sustainable development. But prior to COP26, …
Insight, 08 November 2022
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Gutuura Neeza N'ingagi™
… These Standards for Gorilla FriendlyTM Park Edge Community Products are in Rufumbira, a language spoken around Bwindi … International Gorilla Conservation Programme …
Publication, 01 January 2018
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Community management of natural resources in Africa: Impacts, experiences and future directions
… above (pages 155 to 190) More than twenty years have passed since community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) rose to prominence … of Africa as a strategy for rural development, local empowerment, and conservation. Led by new ideas about the merits of decentralized, … and creative field experiments such as Zimbabwe’s CAMPFIRE, these community-based approaches evolved in a wide range of ecological, …
Publication, 01 September 2009
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
… NGO working to secure human and land rights of the Indigenous Ogiek community and other Indigenous Peoples across Kenya and Africa. Kobei … biodiversity framework .  Q: What are the main challenges the Ogiek community faces from climate change and loss of biodiversity?  DK:  The … with support from development partners, started an environmental conservation initiative in 2016 in the Logoman and Kiptunga forests in …
Article, 09 August 2021
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PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… to help defend their customary rights to biocultural heritage:~ i) Community protocols – or charters of rules and responsibilities – in … practitioners, and to raise awareness of the importance of community designed and controlled participatory processes. … PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent …
Publication, 01 June 2012
A man wearing a mask hands a bag to an older woman, who is standing in the doorway of a house.
Top 20 downloaded papers in the journal Environment and Urbanization
… focus; and to provide good coverage of COVID-19, climate change and community-driven processes. Even more telling than what we publish …
Insight, 18 August 2022
A woman in a headscarf makes bundles of plants to sell.
Smallholder farmers worldwide spending $368bn annually adapting to climate change, nature loss
News, 14 November 2023
View of a road cutting through a forest
Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?
… wildlife . These depleting animal populations present threats to both conservation and food security. The power of tradition, taboo and personal taste Conservation interventions that seek to reduce the reliance on wild meat … these factors win out, even when alternatives are available. As such, conservation resources are being wasted, and communities – having been …
Insight, 21 May 2019
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Evolution et impacts de l’écotourisme communautaire dans le nord de la Tanzanie
… Can community based ecotourism in northern Tanzania contribute to both conservation and rural development? This paper explores themes relevant … arise illustrate some of the fundamental governance challenges to community-based natural resource management and ecotourism in Tanzania. …
Publication, 01 October 2004
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IIED research and evidence in academia
… Franks .   2025 Biocultural wellbeing: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity , Ecology & Society (November 2025) This article … conservation and equity and how they are recognised by different community actors.  Case studies were conducted with Quechua peoples in … China. Featuring IIED's Krystyna Swiderska . Advancing Indigenous and community leadership of conservation requires confronting barriers to …
Article, 23 September 2020