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Understanding the social impacts of protected areas: a community perspective
… and the report reflects more broadly on the results in relation to conservation practice at the site level, and international policy goals … Understanding the social impacts of protected areas: a community perspective …
Publication, 01 March 2016
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The event book system: community-based monitoring in Namibia (PLA 55)
… In: PLA 55 Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian … systems for tracking and adaptively managing various aspects of community development and resource management are emerging as a very … The event book system: community-based monitoring in Namibia (PLA 55) …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Screenshot of a the Biocultural Heritage site's homepage.
Our other sites and networks
… learning to address climate change. Project page Poverty and Conservation Learning Group 2006 - 2023 An international network, … are doing across a broad range of ethical issues. Project page Community networks Community websites set up by IIED in partnership with others …
Page, 30 September 2022
Women bends over a field.
Locally-led nature-based solutions can deliver global leaders’ pledge
… tackle these crises together, and so it follows that NbS – combining conservation, restoration and sustainable use of nature – must be … local support for NbS. These participatory approaches and stronger community-based natural resource governance structures empower local … – and also ensure they benefit directly. These approaches also enable community members to become active advocates, teachers and guardians of …
Insight, 27 September 2021
View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory
Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development
… policies commonly seek to modernise Indigenous societies and conservation policies frequently deny Indigenous rights. Even ‘community-led’ approaches can impose external conservation objectives … access to agrobiodiversity for nutrition.   The Rabai Mijikenda community in coastal Kenya conserve kaya sacred forests, listed as …
Project, 29 April 2019
Communities call for access to genetic diversity to combat poverty and climate change
… knowledge from communities that openly share their resources. Many community resources are now held in gene banks, research institutes and … to genetic resources - whether from gene banks, national parks or community lands - to other countries and third parties such as … but also with the communities of origin to provide an incentive for conservation." "Restoring traditional crops, medicinal plants and other …
News, 21 January 2008
Mitunu, a female of the Mubare gorilla group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, is one of the few remaining critically endangered mountain gorillas left in the wild. CTPH programs promote health and conservation to save Mitunu and her family (Photo: Ryoma Otsuka)
Are health investments paying off for endangered wildlife?
… disease between humans and gorillas, Gladys set up the charity, Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) . Over 10 years on, CTPH has … quantify. It has been harder to for CTPH to understand how supporting community health has led to conservation gains, in particular for the mountain gorillas. CTPH staff and volunteers see more community members, including young people and women, involved in …
Insight, 02 March 2017
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Diversification for climate resilience. Thirty options for forest and farm producer organisations
… climate-resilience action – including poverty reduction, biodiversity conservation, forest landscape restoration and climate change …
Publication, 06 October 2021
CBA5 participants visited Char Kukri-Mukri island on the southeast coast. Here women tend mangrove seedlings destined to provide a barrier against erosion (Photo: B. Koelle)
5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5)
… when she spoke at the opening of the 5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5) in Dhaka on 28 March 2011. More than … and material presented at CBA5 formed the basis of a book entitled  Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change – Scaling it up , published … in 2014. Find out more about the series of conferences in the community-based adaptation (CBA) conference archive …
Article, 13 April 2011
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Indigenous Naxi-Moso cultural values and worldviews for sustainable development: Four Village Biocultural Heritage Coalition, Yunnan, China
… combine food production with sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection. Although Indigenous Peoples have … of traditional ecological culture. It also suggests that a bottom-up, community led action research approach can help address the challenges …
Publication, 06 August 2021