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Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
Article, 21 March 2016
Cover for G03983.pdf
Sustainability index of rural water services: Burkina Faso and Niger
… Sahel UK, in partnership with CARE, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and local …
Publication, 01 August 2014
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
Cover for G02157.pdf
Editorial (PLA 55)
… ~Article in: Participatory Learning and Action 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian … and innovative tools that have been developed by the facilitators of community-based natural resource management programmes in southern …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Cover for G02925.pdf
Building capacity for local-level management through participatory technology development (PLA 55)
… In: PLA 55 Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian … to download individual articles. One of the major successes of the community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes in …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Drying medicinal plants, the knowledge of which is passed down through generations. In South Asia alone, there are more than 8,000 plant species with known medicinal value (Photo: Bioversity International/B. Sthapit)
Sustaining local food systems and agricultural biodiversity
… the documentation of indigenous knowledge in the form of Community Biocultural Registers and training in digital video … establishing indigenous biocultural territories as agrobiodiversity conservation areas. This workshop produced a declaration to emphasise …
Project, 15 August 2013
Two women throwing fishing nets at a lake
Critical themes at IIED
… NGO’s work to promote sustainable involvement, environmental conservation and quality of life. 2016 October: Conflict, climate and … MPA case studies from around the world. July: The Asian Coalition for Community Action (urban poverty and housing development in Asia) Somsook … for Housing Rights, gave a  presentation on the Asian Coalition for Community Action, which she also set up and which has supported more …
Article, 05 March 2021
Cover for X00022.pdf
BBOP Biodiversity Offset Cost-Benefit Handbook
… for environmental service. They also need to deliver the required conservation gains without making local people worse off, for example … for any negative impacts they cause; and~Calculations of the conservation gain of the biodiversity offset activities are realistic in …
Publication, 01 May 2009
Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction
Project, 12 June 2008
Diagram showing change at different scales (Image: Stefano D'Errico/IIED)
Monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity development
… methodologies.  IIED has also collaborated with international conservation agencies such as IUCN to help managers of protected areas … , which uses free open source software, household surveys and community workshops to ensure that key stakeholders are fully engaged in … to assess the resilience benefits of different approaches to community-based planning for adaptation. Supporting the evaluation …
Project, 01 March 2017