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An illustration showing two people reading a book titled "Participatory Learning and Action" in front of the words "positive change"
Participatory Learning and Action: archive
… September 2013 PLA 65 - Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent June 2012 PLA 64 - Young … poverty reduction in China August 2011 PLA 61: Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa November 2010 PLA 60: … PLA 56: General issue June 2007 PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa December 2006 PLA 54: Mapping for …
Article, 31 January 2022
Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians
… divide the forests into sections – some sections are opened up to the community for certain periods of time each year, others are kept closed. … and maintaining traditional systems of forest, land and water conservation. These practices are environmentally sustainable and … For the majority of women, the priority is supporting the family and community – from rearing livestock that sustains local people, to …
Article, 30 October 2018
Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso
… Between 2015 and 2019, IIED, the International Union for the Conservation of nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment World Conservation … Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project aimed to build community resilience by implementing nature-based solutions to disaster … technical services in charge of agriculture, project beneficiaries at community level and IUCN staff members. Information was gathered on …
Project, 02 January 2019
Rural landscape with plants growing in the land. People gather in the background
IIED at 50 must be ready to listen and change: Liz Carlile and Tara Shine in conversation
… in, it was also looking at how they were important to the local community, what value they got from them, and what role they played in … them and conserving them. Any partnership with an organisation or a community in the global South should always result in their feeling … putting the human into the environment – rather than the view that conservation and environmental protection mean kicking people out. So …
Article, 19 August 2021
Community representatives gather together to record their knowledge about dryland resources as part of a participatory mapping process in Isiolo County, Kenya. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Strengthening civil society to support natural resource management
… Natural resource governance and biodiversity conservation in Africa is facing a period of crisis as a result of … change. Finding ways to scale up promising models of sustainable community natural resource management and to change policies through … in the African natural resource field. For example, from scaling up community conservation in Namibia and Kenya , to the design of …
Insight, 29 July 2015
'Imagine Bwindi', by Ugandan musician Richard Kawesa, is expected to reach thousands of people, from local communities living around Bwindi to policymakers (Photo: PCI Media Impact)
'Imagine Bwindi' music video launched on World Wildlife Day
… the NGO PCI Media Impact in partnership with the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (U-PCLG) to celebrate the beauty and natural … Uganda. The video will also be shared with IIED's partners working on conservation programmes, such as Nigeria's Wildlife Conservation Society … communities from using its resources, raises many problems: A local community member living near Bwindi says: "Some of us live on land near …
News, 03 March 2015
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to roughly 340 mountain gorillas, half of all gorillas left in the world. Tracking gorillas is the park's main tourist attraction (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Spinach soup, gorillas and cow dung baskets – what's the connection?
… with local people in recognition that their support is important for conservation. But beyond this, local benefits from gorilla tourism – … are not exactly on many international tourists' shopping list. Community-based enterprises are scruffy, which fails to give tourists … This poses a significant threat to the park and to the long-term conservation of the mountain gorillas. It also represents a missed …
Insight, 22 May 2017
A family fishes in Chandpur, Bangladesh
New rules for high seas must include poorest countries’ needs
… the high seas (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas … the impacts of how the ocean is used and protected, from fishing to conservation measures. Any measure to govern these waters must make sure … September 2, 2018 The equitable distribution of benefits from conservation of the high seas should also be at the core of the …
Insight, 05 September 2018
Cover for 17721IIED.pdf
How local rules can promote inclusive land governance in Tanzania
… Growing commercial interests, population growth and conservation initiatives are increasing competition for land in …
Publication, 01 August 2019
Cover for G03979.pdf
The Tuggoz Declaration on Climate Change and Mountain Indigenous Peoples
… International Network of Biocultural Heritage Territories for in-situ conservation and holistic adaptation to climate change. The network will … biodiversity. We have also established an International Network of Community Seed Banks, and a related farmers’ seed exchange programme, for insitu conservation and adaptation to climate change. Biocultural heritage …
Publication, 01 October 2015