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PLA 65 - Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… This issue of PLA explores two important participatory tools: Community protocols – or charters of rules and responsibilities – in … practitioners, and to raise awareness of the importance of community designed and controlled participatory processes.  This work is … issue . Contents Editorial Glossary  -  Acronyms  -  Abstracts Community protocols and free, prior informed consent: overview and …
Article, 31 May 2012
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Where Communities Care. Community Based Wildlife and Ecosystem Management in South Asia
… Where Communities Care is the full regional review of community wildlife management in South Asia. It provides in-depth … India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka describing the history of conservation, the move to CWM and 18 key project case studies. ~These … Where Communities Care. Community Based Wildlife and Ecosystem Management in South Asia …
Publication, 01 January 2000
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… on forests.  In Guangxi, Southwest China, village women involved in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiative supported by the Centre … are the voices of women being heard in policies that support conservation of agrobiodiversity?  KS: There are certainly spaces at … Diversity (CBD) framework , which will see the international community address the challenge of biodiversity and ecosystems loss, …
Article, 18 October 2018
Forest with abundant vegetation
World leaders urged to back innovative nature financing at One Forest Summit in Gabon
… finance offers a tangible solution to the problem of funding the conservation and restoration of biodiversity, but we need to do the work …
News, 01 March 2023
A farmer in the Potato Park, Peru (Photo: Adam Kerby)
A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity
… The Potato Park communities have also developed a number of community enterprises with external researchers to generate income, … a collective Potato Park trademark based on customary laws, an inter-community biocultural protocol for benefit-sharing, and a potato … Eastern Himalayas, India SIFOR: Qualitative baseline study, Mijikenda community, Kenyan coast Krystyna Swiderska ([email protected]) …
Insight, 07 October 2014
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Wild meat alternative projects: practical guidance for project design
Publication, 01 October 2020
People planting trees
Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
… Knowledge transfer I made it my mission to raise awareness in my community about the benefits of trees and promote tree planting … I took inspiration from the voluntary work I do with Loitokitok Community Forest Association , which promotes reforestation and forest … does lots of progressive work to promote awareness of environmental conservation: communal tree planting programme during the rains, …
Insight, 11 February 2020
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
Project, 12 June 2018
Plastic boxes containing fish and ice
Hilsa fish essential to Myanmar local nutrition and livelihoods, and needs protecting
News, 11 November 2019
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IIED publishes updated guide to social assessment for protected areas
… limited, with few people understanding the meaning of equity in a conservation context , or how to measure it. The Social Assessment for … social impacts – positive and negative – of PAs/CAs and any related conservation and development activities. It is designed to explain key … but also to the reluctance of some authorities to recognise local community concerns and to strengthen PA governance procedures. People’s …
News, 14 November 2018