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Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
… Indonesia for a three day workshop on the links between great ape conservation and poverty, because it just so happens that all of the … — disagreed. People kills apes because they are poor, said one. Conservation creates costs to local people and this is an issue of … workshop — webcast here — was organised as part of IIED's Poverty and Conservation Learning Group initiative with support from the Arcus …
Insight, 13 January 2012
Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)
It's time for revolution in forest business
… from 2009-12 by international alliances of indigenous people, community forestry and family small-holders (forest 'rights-holders') in … levels Three types of investment appeared critical. Firstly, when community enterprise leaders and representatives of local support NGOs such as Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative from Tanzania and ORAM from …
Insight, 17 November 2014
A net full of cod
Fishy business at IIED
… Next was the launch of ' Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation ', a book edited by Essam Yassin Mohammed – a researcher in …
Insight, 10 December 2013
IIED's Essam Yassin Mohammed directs questions to UCL senior lecturer Peter Jones on Marine Protected Areas (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: Governing Marine Protected Areas
… implement governance approaches that are both effective in achieving conservation objectives and equitable in fairly sharing associated costs … working on urban poverty reduction, discuss the Asian Coalition for Community Action , which she set up and which has supported more than 1,000 community-driven initiatives to improve conditions across 18 nations in …
Event, 06 October 2014
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Traditional resource rights and indigenous people in the Andes
… Andes. Facilitated by ANDES (Quechua–Aymara Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development) and IIED, this participatory … model to protect traditional knowledge systems based on the conservation and sustainable use of the ecosystems in which indigenous …
Publication, 01 November 2005
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Technical report of regional conference: Implementing the ECOWAS recommendations on large water infrastructure in West Africa: social dimensions.
… and Development (IIED) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The conference brought together around 50 …
Publication, 01 March 2013
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Policy That Works For Biodiversity and Poverty Reduction: The ANDES Community Initiative Component of the Scoping Study on Biodiversity Governance in Peru
… recognizing the fundamentally inter-linked nature of biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction. … Policy That Works For Biodiversity and Poverty Reduction: The ANDES Community Initiative Component of the Scoping Study on Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 July 2005
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Making financial training fun: the CAMPFIRE game (PLA 55)
… In: PLA 55 Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. ~Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian … This article provides an important example of management tools for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Sam Murinye, Lilian …
Publication, 01 December 2006
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Participatory wildlife quota setting (PLA 55)
… In: PLA 55 Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. ~Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian … This article provides an important example of management tools for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Most of southern …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… the Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines, wrote about how community gardens on vacant city plots were providing vital nutrition … of global urban change, and followed an article that described community-led COVID-19 responses in the Philippines that was one of … Caribbean and Latin America regions in September and October 2021. 10 Community-based adaptation: what we learned at CBA15 …
Insight, 28 December 2021