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Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019
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A guide to the Uganda Wildlife Authority’s revenue sharing programme
… It is available in Kifumbira and Rukiga from the Uganda Poverty and Conservation Learning Group's …
Publication, 01 August 2015
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Lessons learnt from 20 years of revenue sharing at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
… trade-offs between equity and effectiveness, and the pathways to conservation impact. Although this study focuses on one specific …
Publication, 01 November 2017
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Indigenous food systems prove highly resilient during COVID-19
… strengthened their Indigenous food systems through participation in community-to-community learning exchanges organised by the International Network of …
Insight, 26 August 2021
Man handing a package to another man. They are all wearing face masks.
Are India’s social protection schemes ‘future fit’?
… build climate-resilient water harvesting, land development and soil conservation infrastructure. While the long-term benefits of the … evaluation is already showing positive results, including stronger community engagement, better understanding of climate risks and assets … distribution of additional wage employment days. The state can help a community at risk to better prepare and cope immediate crisis with …
Insight, 09 October 2020
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Building climate resilience through commercial agroforestry tree nurseries
… workers. LETNSHG has both helped its members and, through them, local community-based adaptation (CbA) to these changes. Nursery owners have … and been supplied seedlings for, agroforestry diversification, conservation and organic farming methods, and organic composting and …
Publication, 01 October 2020
Mpugu Parish borders Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (top right). Photo: Andrew Kirkby
Maps reveal what motivates people to take resources from flagship national park
… mapping, we try to answer complex questions like these as part of the Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation project , which aims to ensure that conservation has a more positive impact on the poorest households near … and nongovernmental organizations adopted various "integrated conservation and development" strategies to help local communities …
Insight, 09 October 2013
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
… promote simultaneous goals of endogenous development and biodiversity conservation, based on indigenous and traditional land tenure, … and experiences, worldviews and spiritual values, rather than western conservation models. They enable the continuation of customary … of the ethnic minority Naxi people, rich in landrace diversity.  Naxi community leaders are establishing a collective farmers' organisation to …
News, 11 November 2014
The Saloum Delta Biosphere Reserve in Senegal (Photo: El Hadji Ballé Seye/UICN-Sénégal)
EBA Evidence and Policy: Senegal
… Between 2015 and 2019, IIED, the  International Union for the Conservation of nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) are jointly implementing a … Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project aimed to build community resilience by implementing nature-based solutions to disaster …
Project, 02 April 2019
A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.
How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions
… change through agroforestry production systems and natural forest conservation.  The following two case studies illustrate ways in which … markets and access to finance as the biggest challenges to scaling up community-led EbA activities in forest and farm landscapes. Supported by …
Insight, 11 April 2024